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My Origin had the curse of fatal death today, it's great.

Every now and then it uninstalls games or DLC by itself, which isn't exactly great, but today I can't launch anything because it claims Origin isn't installed at all. No online, no offline, nothing. I can't uninstall it because it claims to be gone already, despite the fact all of its files are present in their registries to the point I can locate the files it says are missing right where they're supposed to be, and downloading it again doesn't work because I get instant errors (a different one every time too). I'll probably have to do a complete scrub and wipe it out completely to start from scratch. Found a bunch of Reddit posts from folks having the same issue from 2017.

The best part is that EA help isn't working for me. I go to file a case about it and where the options to choose a contact method should be it just says "Test" with no actual options.

The rest of my PC is fine and clean, Steam and all its games are fine, games outside of launchers are fine, it's just Origin.

I miss the days when you put a disc in, installed a game and then played it.

I'd really prefer to disconnect the sims franchise from EA.

I like both the disks and no more EA ideas! Having problems today, both game and gallery. Be nice if the game was in the hands of folks that actually know what they are doing.

You can't log in offline and play? I can. I can't use the gallery but I can still play my game.

"mysph1t;c-17421250" wrote:

"Camkat;c-17421030" wrote:
You can't log in offline and play? I can. I can't use the gallery but I can still play my game.

It literally was telling me my library was empty, and before that it said that the expansions I had weren't installed, and were "pre-ordered". It's absolutely ridiculous the level of restrictions EA has on this content. I don't mind being disconnected from the gallery while servers are down, but to say I don't even have games I purchased and installed is tantamount to theft.

I'd have to agree. I've honestly never seen that and didn't know that was even possible. *lucky me* I've gotten messages saying servers were down and asking me if I'd like to log in offline.

I was also under the impression (I can't remember where I read it but I'm pretty sure that it was EA's website in a Q&A) that we are actually supposed to be able to access TS4 with or without an internet connection. I don't know if this is changed, but you might want to try reporting your issue to EA?

I created a shortcut on my desktop to TSM, TS3 and TS4 and launch the games that way. It launches origin too, but if it's down, I just get that message about offline play and otherwise it launches the games. I don't often even see the games in my origin library. I don't know if that's helpful for you or not, but it's how I've always done it and I've always been able to play, even when I've seen messages on twitter saying servers were down.

"mysph1t;c-17421250" wrote:

"Camkat;c-17421030" wrote:
You can't log in offline and play? I can. I can't use the gallery but I can still play my game.

It literally was telling me my library was empty, and before that it said that the expansions I had weren't installed, and were "pre-ordered". It's absolutely ridiculous the level of restrictions EA has on this content. I don't mind being disconnected from the gallery while servers are down, but to say I don't even have games I purchased and installed is tantamount to theft.

I had the same message as did a few others.

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