Broken gallery, library, & saves not working
As of yesterday, after working perfectly fine a few hours previous, my game has been unable to play. I don't know if there was an update or what. I'm not able to save households to my library, not even my personal ones that I edit/add to game (so I can't start a new save). It always times me out and tells me to check my internet connection (which is fine). Gallery doesn't load beyond red "/"'s and whenever I play and save, once I exit and return its reverted to its state prior to playing. So I can't do anything.
I've restarted the game, the EA app, my computer, steam, verified integrity of files, cleared cache, and moved what few (inactive) mods I had leftover sitting in my game files out of there completely, which I had forgotten about. But none of it has changed anything, beyond the last two causing multiple portraits of sims in my library to now have that entirely blacked out glitch - though only in the overall household photo, not their personal ones that show their traits and stuff. I don't know what to do. I don't have mods or CC, and I haven't purchased any of the newest packs. So is it just a server issue that I have to wait out? Are my sims and saves somehow corrupted?