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Re: EA App and Sims 4

Whether you play the game through Origin or the EA App, you are going to have to update the game before you can play again. And if you use mods and CC, you'll probably have to make sure you update them as well - the mods especially. You can try changing your Origin settings to Offline and disable game updates and that might let you play, but I'm not sure how that works exactly. Tbh, I wouldn't do that since, depending on when you last played, there have been a lot of updates containing bug fixes and changes to the game and there are probably a few kits or packs you might want to add. If you choose to update, you should probably make a copy of the saves folder and store it on your desktop or elsewhere on your computer before updating the game.

Hope this helps.

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smilelikemiles
3 years ago
Thanks! Yeah I had updates paused bc all updates broke my game and it would take days of tweaking to get the game to work just right.
I always save a backup to my desktop. I already put one on an external drive for safe keeping and will also save it to the desktop before I do anything.
I only have one tiny basic mod (playable pets) that I’ve used through every sims 4 update (even when I paused updates I would resume them when a new pack came out and so on) and it never caused me issues so I don’t assume it would now. I do have a decent amount of maxis match custom content. Hopefully not too many of those break.
Do you know when everyone’s gonna have to be switched over from Origin?