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I couldn’t play the sims 2 earlier as it said the servers were down. I agree that it’s pretty poor that we can’t play our offline games when the servers are down. Thankfully my sims 3 runs off disc. I wish my sims 2 discs worked on windows. I would never need origin again.

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I had just changed email address on my Origin Account the day before, so I just kept getting the message "can't start the game before verifying your online account email address" (or something to that effect).

Look, I get it. I am sure the online gallery is on the same server park as the origin accounts. But that should NOT in any way block you from accessing your OWN locally saved stuff nor your game.

Steam does not have this issue; it just warns you that you can't backup your saves while offline (But then Steam is what Origin wanted to be and always failed at, which is why EA now has released all their games back on Steam again).

I had problems with Origin not recognizing my old account & my Sims 4 games last year. It cost me a total of $500.00 to get my games back as well as the new Strangerville at the time. I wish they would apologize to me & reimburse me. They should know both accounts were me because of my email.
It's very rude & wrong of them.
I miss the days where there used to be customer service & goodness.

In my experience those messages the OP mentions are newer over the last few years. I had uninstalled in 2017 (and Origin) reinstalled last year to check out game again, and couldn't play without being online, first, and none of my packs were available unless I went online. ETA: And yes, I didn't have access to my own library of homes and Sims until I went online though I have the saves and they were in my saves. Needless to say that was enough to make me not play for another four or five years.

"mysph1t;d-973167" wrote:
I'm pretty sick of not being able to play a game I paid money for because servers are down/buggy. It's not an online game. Let me play what I paid for.

Origin is a pain. I have issues with playing if Origins isn't online or if it's buggy. Sims 4 isn't an online game.

This is strange, I have had issues with updating origin in the past, and though I couldn't play sims 4 because you have to at least have origin up for that, though I never play it online either, I am always offline, I have been able to play both Sims 2 and Sims 3 without having origin running. Neither of those games are from disk either. It seems origin never treats 2 customers that same way. I do hate the application. I have to jump through hoops to get it working every time it updates, or the Sims 4 updates. It should not be that much trouble.

I had this happen to me last week. Origin was down and automatically logged me out for some reason. Then it didn't recognize my email or my password and I couldn't play. I need to play to get my story updates ontime but that wasn't the case. And Origin servers were down and buggy. This is really awful. I hate that my hands are tied to an online server that goes down sometimes. Yes, I can play offline mode but not when Origin is bugged out and totally down and basically fried. I had to wait over 24 hours for it to fix.

We had an internet outage a couple of weeks back. I couldn't play a game I've put literally hundreds of dollars into because I couldn't log into Origin. The reliance on being connected to Origin is a hot mess.

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17425501" wrote:
I've had occasional problems with connection to Origin as well. And they want the next The Sims game to be an online multiplayer? Smh....

Expect a Fallout 76-level disaster with that...

Having to have Origin active on my computer to get into my game is kind of a pain. However, I've been lucky enough that I have never had a problem with not being able to log in offline and play that way. It would be nice to be able to access the game without Origin on, though. One less background thing, especially for players on weaker machines.