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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.

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.