Can't buy retail lots
Hi, I get this issue too. For every single retail lot in the game, I get the error, "Sims can only purchase unowned retail stores or unoccupied residential lots". It doesn't matter whether it is a p...
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Thanks crinrict,
I have already done the factory reset, that didn't help.
I have started with a new game as a new user on my PC (so as to not have any user profile related influences) and I have also totally uninstalled and reinstalled the game as well. None helped.
Thanks for suggesting them all though.
I'm stomped then. No idea what could be causing this for you. Makes no sense.
Do you have any other weird issues with the game ?
@crinrict wrote:I'm stomped then. No idea what could be causing this for you. Makes no sense.
Do you have any other weird issues with the game ?
Me too ... it's driving me crazy. I don't have any other weird issues with the game that I've noticed, but then I've given up playing it again because of this issue. It's so frustrating to me.
It has to be something on my PC - a file or permission or something on my PC that is doing it, but having uninstalled totally and it still happening, I think I need someone from EA to tell me where else the game saves files, etc.
Or what else it may be trying to do / access / etc. that it can't.
Thanks for trying, I really do appreciate it.
Do you have any lastexception files ?
Hi again,
I'm very sorry, I was so very frustrated and angry with the replies/lack of assistance I got from EA that I had to walk away from EA and The Sims 4 for a while ... I've literally only just come back to it now.
I don't have any lastexception files in my game folders at all.
Having said that, I'm just installing the latest game updates since January, and will test again to see if it's an issue still. I came on this site to see if anyone else had found an answer 🙂
