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JackOnYourBack's avatar
2 years ago

Epic is ridiculous and I hate it

I in my stupidity though I could play the free base game on Epic or Steam if I didn't feel like playing all of the packs on the EA app that I have since we still can't just pick and chose easily what we want to play with and not.

Now I needed to link both my Steam and Epic account to the EA one to play but I didn't think much of it, I have no plans on creating new accounts on any of these game platforms.

No the problem is I didn't actually just get the base game when I downloaded them on Steam/ Epic, it just connects with the EA app and plays all of the packs there anyway. I figures why even have them installed on the two other platsforms then since that's not what I wanted/ needed.

So I delete the game on Steam, the problem is Epic. I can't delete it from there and when I go to the EA app it says the Sims 4 is accessed through Epic now.

The ridiculous thing is that when I press play in the EA app it starts the Epic app to then switch back to the EA app, so now I have to have two apps open in the background to play this game.

I don't want that, that's redundant so I tried deleting Epic but that ment the game reinstalled iself again for the nth time and I can't start it because I need to have the Epic Games app installed. Sigh. I want to swear at this point.

I have googled to try and find a way to get rid of this "accessed to Epic Games" on The Sims 4 in the EA app but I find nothing.

I only installed the base game on Epic and now I need to have the app just to play it even though if I try to play it on Epic it will open the EA app anyway.

Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this? I am desperate. I actually want to play for once and now I can't. I desperately want to go back to before this thing, I don't want to download the Epic Games app to play TS4 on the EA app. Ridiculus. I don't even own any packs on Epic and I bought the base game on Origin but now apparently Epic can clam it all.

I never want to even see that app ever again at this point but I am stuck.

Please help.

  • I wonder if unlinking your Epic account in the EA will set it back to normal? I've never used Epic or Steam for Sims. I only use Steam for other games and never used Epic at all so I'm not sure if that's something that can be done. Also maybe reinstalling the game in the EA will bypass Epic? Again, not sure if that's possible.
  • "Lenny_Ogg;c-18287441" wrote:
    SweetieWright_84 I tried all this and nothing worked so I had to contact the supports and they unlinked it after a few days. They said it was a 'bug' they were aware of.


    So avoid Epic? Got it. :D
  • @JackOnYourBack go here and follow the instructions to disable the packs you don't want to play with. To open the game you have to launch it from the ea app, the code won't work if you try to launch your game from a regular shortcut. Annoying but eh, better than nothing.

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