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siladris
Rising Adventurer
7 years ago
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Sims Mobile Family Frame Promotion gives Error 8 when submitting phone number

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.52.100.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Launch a copy of the game that does not have the family portrait frame from the sims mobile promotion. Click the grayed out circle for the family frame, enter your mobile phone number into the window that opens and hit submit.
What happens when the bug occurs? The promotion window shows a loading wheel for a little bit and then gives a pop up saying "Something Went Wrong! Please try again! Error code: 8" (once it gave error code 4). I receive the text message to download the mobile app, but relaunching the game does not give me the frame.
What do you expect to see? Not to get an error after submitting my phone number, having the frame appear as activated when I relaunch the Sims 4.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Well, not a change I made, but the promotion wasn't available again until today.

I noticed the family portrait frame for downloading the Sims Mobile was back on my main menu, and since I missed out on it last time, I tried to get it, but I keep getting error code 8 or 4. I've tried restarting my game, launching origin in administrator mode, and contacting EA support to have them do it, but it's always error code 8 or 4. I was advised to submit a bug report.

Some pictures:

Gray circle showing the promotion is active again

Promotion window before submitting

Screen with error (phone number blacked out)

  • EA_Mai's avatar
    EA_Mai
    7 years ago

    Hi everyone,

    Thanks again for your reports - the icon shouldn't show in the main menu anymore.

    As far as I know, there's no plans to bring back this promotion at this point - but if anything changes in the future, we will let you know.

    A couple useful links to make sure you don't miss any news!: The Sims 4 News page & The Sims 4 Announcements section on the forums.

    Thanks,
    -Mai

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  • EA_Mai's avatar
    EA_Mai
    Icon for EA Staff rankEA Staff
    7 years ago

    Hi everyone,

    Thanks again for your reports - the icon shouldn't show in the main menu anymore.

    As far as I know, there's no plans to bring back this promotion at this point - but if anything changes in the future, we will let you know.

    A couple useful links to make sure you don't miss any news!: The Sims 4 News page & The Sims 4 Announcements section on the forums.

    Thanks,
    -Mai

  • EuphorialQueen's avatar
    EuphorialQueen
    Hero (Retired)
    7 years ago

    @EA_Mai 
    I no longer see the button after the patch.
    Before any patch I move or delete the old The Sims folder and let the game create a fresh one.

    That includes totally deleting the localthumbcache.package and any other cache files.

    - EQ
    Avid Sims Player
    Game Version 1.53.115.1020 ReBranding Patch
    All content installed thru Island Living
    PC / Win 7
    Never used CC or mods.

  • siladris's avatar
    siladris
    Rising Adventurer
    7 years ago

    @EuphorialQueen@EA_Mai

    The button was removed sometime after the patch went live. You can see it was still offered initially from Justin’s comments and on Sims YouTuber patch overviews like Sim Supply and Deligracy’s, but now it’s off mine even without any additional cache deletions. 

    I have to say I’m pretty disappointed it wasn’t being offered again. Limited time DLCs like this aren’t any fun, especially when the promotion window didn’t show any dates to indicate it was expired and it still managed to successfully capture my personal information to send me unique texts :/ If the offer does come back, which I think it should, I would hope it became a permanent offer like the guitar or the holiday stuff pack.