about the LANGUAGE
According to The Sims' website, the game will be available in 18 languages, with simplified Chinese being released in January. But in fact it's already February, and I still can't switch languages, a...
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@JonaO703 Thank you for your reply, but it does not help at all.
I reinstalled the game multiple times and it always gives the option to choose only those 3 languages. My Origin have always been set to English. I already bought the game and a lot of packs from EA, so why would I have to buy the same game again just to download a different language? I bought the disc version and only used the product key to download it from origin, so the disc was completely useless. But still, I can only play in a language that is not used in my country. It is just stupid and frustrating and honestly, with all the bugs in the game, it is not even worth playing anymore...
Thank you again for your time.
@Madam_MariaCurie What you could do is contact EA customer support, get your current version of Sims 4 removed from your account, and buy a new copy when it's on sale. During a typical Origin sale, the base game is usually $5/5€ rather than 40. If you buy from Origin while you're in a country that offers the global (not language-locked) version, or you buy a physical copy from a store in one of those countries, you should get all available languages regardless of where you're located when you download the game.
I know it's frustrating not to have access to all the languages, but it's not an uncommon policy for game sellers. They usually say something about selling copies at a lower price in countries with lower average incomes, but then the company wouldn't want everyone globally to buy from those locations (by using a VPN or going through a key seller, for example). So the compromise is to offer a discounted game in only a few languages—the local people can play in their native language, and others need to pay full price in their own countries.
It's unfortunate that expats and others who'd like the global version are caught in the middle, but there may not be a good solution here.
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Wouldn't that delete all my expansions, game and stuff packs as well?@Madam_MariaCurie If you ask that only the base game be removed, that's what should happen. I can't promise that an EA support rep wouldn't mess it up, just that this is how it should work. Without a copy of the base game, you wouldn't have access to your owned packs, but they should be perfectly usable again once you get a new base game copy.
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