Why do we need to be connected to the internet now?

You don't need an Internet connection to play sims 4. You can play it just fine without. But to share your sims creations on the gallery or download other people's creations, you need the internet for that. If you want to play offline, that's totally possible. I do it when I'm avoiding an update. Just make sure that every once in a while you let your game have access to the Internet so it can download and install updates and sims deliveries.

Needing the internet isn't exactly new. I believe sims 3 requires an internet connection for the same things I mentioned. Most if not all games nowadays require an internet connection for some of their features 

@SianAF148    Hi!  I agree that we shouldn't need internet connection to play.  However, since we were forced to move to the EA app, it is constantly trying to reconnect.  I can't speak for @CatSmith1979 but I'm just guessing this is what they were referring to.  I normally have my game in online mode but I noticed that when I tried playing in offline mode it eventually returned some errors that forced me to connect and go online in order to keep playing.  I never had this issue with Origin.

Oh that's a feature? I get that too but I have awful Internet so I just thought it was because of that. I get told to restart the app bc of a connection issue and I get logged out a lot. Yeah that's definitely annoying 

Yeah, when my ISP goes down, I cannot even start the game. I don't get past the EA crApp telling me to log in.

A storm blew through but I had power.  "I'll just play the Sims 3 offline." EA: "Lol, no you won't."

I don't understand why you cannot play certain games without the EA app, the EA app is already a major inconvenience for me, who only ever plays the Sims 3 offline. But now not only do I need to launch the game through the app, I need to be online to launch it too? I was livid. I mean, there's honestly no words to describe how upset I was.

You should be able to start the app in offline mode if you so choose.

I wish EA cared enough about it's consumers to provide them this feature from the get-go, or at least implement it now.

"Log online to go offline"

Lol, what.

Log in online to go offline... make it make sense.. EA really doesn't care..