How long we can stay offline?

I’ve played offline from time to time. However you need to select offline on a regular basis in EA App.

With latest ea app update it seems we can't play offline at all.. no matter how many times you launch it online first

Yes I tried all solutions, deleting EA app cache, restarting, forcing EA updater

It's mentioned in EA help but no official comment from EA on fixing the issue

I paid hundreds of dollars on this game I just wanna play offline, My pc doesn't have WiFi card and it's already exhausting having to connect to Internet every while when you already paid alot to play the games

Now we can't play at all unless you're online..

This needs to be fixed..

"Lenny_Ogg;c-18282579" wrote:
I'm not sure if this still works but you could try to open the sims folder in your program folder (not where the screenshots and saves are)
origin games-> The Sims 4 -> game -> bin
and then open the -> TS4_X64 file

Yeah that doesn't work anymore it opens up EA app again and when offline it gives you "game license has expired" error

It happened with recent version of EA app update it seems, at least before you could play offline if you have connected to Internet for a while

My internet went out due to a service fix, I tried to play my Sims 4 on the PC, and them tried my PS4 version.
Without basic internet, the game doesn't load, which is kind of messed up on EAs part. I usually want to play the game offline.
When my internet came back, I was able to access my game, but it sucks that we need internet now to load it.

I was busy playing my sims when we had a powercut, I played until my battery of my laptop died which was about four hours. Only after exiting the game did I see the message that EA app got disconnected. I did not try reconnecting since the battery was like 10 percent, but I had no problem playing while I had no internet. Although I was already ingame when we had the powercut, so not sure if I could connect without internet. I can test it for you if you want. I will just unplug my fiber and try to connect to my game ;)

Hi I did some testing for you, here is my results.

First I just jumped in and switched off the modem and tried to load the game with my game icon on my desktop. This popped up.
https://i.imgur.com/nJlzDAg.png

So I switched it on and then looked for the part they are talking about above, I could not find it anywhere (I will look again) so I just saw the part where I could go offline and selected that instead.
https://i.imgur.com/N1vaqWF.png

After saying yes I am sure this page popped up
https://i.imgur.com/mimXa2F.png

I clicked on the little play button at sims 4 and got this
https://i.imgur.com/uQZymRj.png

Gosh well now I was confuzzled :/ but I switched on my internet again and started the game from that little play button, waited for it too completely load and then exited, thinking that it would now renew the license or do what is needed to make it work next time. Disconnected the internet again and got the exact same message. So now I put the internet on, clicked the play button and as the game loaded I quickly switched it off. The game kept loading but I got an error message in the game about the SDX not being able to download, I just exited out of the message and could load my game, I tried loading several different saves and they all worked as you can see below, I show you my internet is off.

https://i.imgur.com/gXxYWCJ.png

So all we need to figure out, is where to get that setting I got in the first error message, then it is supposed to work offline. I will see what I can find ;)

Found the part they want us to tick, but even after doing that I still had the above error code about the expired license.
https://i.imgur.com/yJyvnOr.png

So only way to play offline is to load game online and then disconnect internet. You don't have to wait for the game to completely load before disconnecting, but you need to be online to select it. So if you have no internet then nothing it seems will work. I will google this error and see what comes up next.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports-Technical-Issues/Error-Code-EC-204/td-p/12695282

Add a me too here. I will post my findings there as well. Lots of simmers getting that error :(

I recommend emailing EA Help and letting them know that you are dissatisfied with the fact that the EA App does not have a real, functional Offline mode. If enough people do this, there is at least a chance that EA will get the idea that customers are unhappy with the current app and make changes. Nothing will happen immediately, but if we tell them - politely but firmly - that this is not an acceptable situation, it's possible we'll get what we want.

I noticed this and immediately thought they are trying to stop players from playing without patching. It's why I play offline a majority of the time. There's also power cuts all the time in my town. (yay TX...)

But for those like OP who don't always have internet connection this is terrible.