Feedback on having to be online regularly for Sims 4.

Thanks for replying ?.

It’s just so bizarre to have to regularly go online to stay offline. ??‍♂️

The app states I must go online to verify. I’ve restarted the app, my computer and the request remains. I will log in online and try to go offline. ?

It's 2023. Sigh.

The fact that we can no longer start and play our $1200 video game when we have no internet connection.... is what angers me to no end.

Not everyone lives in a big metropolitan city that never sees a drop in internet connections. Many of us live in rural areas and/or countries that don't always have stable internet connectivity. What happened to every sims player getting full representation with the ability to play their very expensive video game, any time all the time, no matter the situation, no matter their demographic?

Expecting all game players to have full internet connection at all times so they can start up and play their game whenever they want with no connectivity problems? Needing an internet connection to be able to go into the EA app to tell it to go offline? Not only is that completely and utterly unrealistic... it's also selfishly myopic on EA's part.

I've been playing The Sims for 23 years and this is the first time I've encountered a situation where I couldn't start up my game until my satellite internet connection came back online.... just so I could tell the EA app to play offline in case my internet went down again that day (snowstorm). Am I and others going to be denied access to our $1200 game when the weather is nasty outside?

The words that came flying out of my mouth that day when I discovered I can't start up my game when I lose internet connection.... well, let's just say it would've made a sailor blush.

I prefer to play my game online (mainly so I can access the gallery), so I have it set to be online all the time by default, BUT there are times when that's just not feasible. We shouldn't be punished for those times when we can't. So either give us back the less problematic Origin app (which allowed us to start up our Sims game without an internet connection), or fix this fatally flawed EA Play app once and for all.

Enough already.

Maybe this is so they can prepare people to get acclimated to this practice because Project Rene will be forced online.

"Chicklet453681;c-18255003" wrote:
Maybe this is so they can prepare people to get acclimated to this practice because Project Rene will be forced online.

I think so.

I must log in every time I want to play now. So playing offline is only possible by going online. ???‍♂️?.

Wednesday, when attempting to play game I got the notification, 'You have been offline too long." Then came the stuff about going online, proving I am me, and other app nonsense. Game hasn't launched since, the app insisting I be online.

"Chicklet453681;c-18255003" wrote:
Maybe this is so they can prepare people to get acclimated to this practice because Project Rene will be forced online.

No maybe about it. Pavlov would be pleased.

Does anyone know if there's a way to reinstall the Origin app and play the game offline permanently until such a time we can choose to install updates or buy new packs?

I'm curious to see if I can get rid of the EA app altogether and revert back to Origin until such a time that the EA app works and functions the way it's supposed to. I absolutely refuse to allow EA full control of when/how I play my game. I didn't spend all this money only to turn around and hand over full control to some overpaid boardroom schmuck wearing a pinstripe suit 8000 miles away.

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated!

> @AncientMuse said:
> The fact that we can no longer start and play our $1200 video game when we have no internet connection.... is what angers me to no end.
>
> Not everyone lives in a big metropolitan city that never sees a drop in internet connections. Many of us live in rural areas and/or countries that
>don't always have stable internet connectivity. What happened to every sims player getting full representation with the ability to play their very
>expensive video game, any time all the time, no matter the situation, no matter their demographic?
>

There hasn't been any such ability since Sims2, or at least there wasn't supposed to be. Origin also "called home" regularly.


> Expecting all game players to have full internet connection at all times so they can start up and play their game whenever they want with no
>connectivity problems? Needing an internet connection to be able to go into the EA app to tell it to go offline? Not only is that completely and
>utterly unrealistic... it's also selfishly myopic on EA's part.
>
> I've been playing The Sims for 23 years and this is the first time I've encountered a situation where I couldn't start up my game until my
>satellite internet connection came back online.... just so I could tell the EA app to play offline in case my internet went down again that day
>(snowstorm). Am I and others going to be denied access to our $1200 game when the weather is nasty outside?
>
> The words that came flying out of my mouth that day when I discovered I can't start up my game when I lose internet connection.... well, let's
>just say it would've made a sailor blush.
>
> I prefer to play my game online (mainly so I can access the gallery), so I have it set to be online all the time by default, BUT there are times
>when that's just not feasible. We shouldn't be punished for those times when we can't. So either give us back the less problematic Origin app
>(which allowed us to start up our Sims game without an internet connection), or fix this fatally flawed EA Play app once and for all.
>
> Enough already.

Unfortunately, to my knowledge, we don't have any legal recourse. We can't force them to let us (legally) play offline. The only way to play truly offline is to crack the game(which I don't recommend, of course).
Making your grievance known on social media might be slightly more effective than posting it here, but i expect it ultimately still won't have any real effect.

"Oldeseadogge;c-18257157" wrote:
Wednesday, when attempting to play game I got the notification, 'You have been offline too long." Then came the stuff about going online, proving I am me, and other app nonsense. Game hasn't launched since, the app insisting I be online.

Providing that there has been no change since I last opened TS4: if your game is already open, ignore the prodding, the game will continue to function, regardless. If your game is closed, sign in, go offline, then boot up the game as usual.

I recently mentioned the constant nagging during a survey for the EA app. Unfortunately, I don't remember how I got to the survey. If I remember, I'll leave a link. The more people who let EA know that we don't want to be online all the time, the better.