> @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.
