Just for "funsies", I decided to turn off my Firewall to see what would happen, and I made it past that first loading screen. When I launched the game after turning off the first time, where it says 'Resume' on the left-hand side, it was blank (couldn't see the last sim I had played with), but the ads were visible. So, I go into the Gallery to see if I can access it, and technically, I could, but all the photos were blank with red Xs in them (as seen in the screenshot attached below). So, I exited out of the game, gave it a few minutes before re-launching the game, and almost everything is back to normal except for the fact that I'm missing the fourth tab in the Gallery, the 'News' tab. Are there only three tabs now? Am I missing something?
@harasnicole The X'ed out Gallery items has a master thread here:
Please try the suggestions in the first post, at least those you haven't done already.
The missing News feed is by design after the Gallery revamp of a few months ago. EA has said it will return at some point. Please post here if you'd like to share your opinion:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-Feedback/Gallery-missing-news-feed/m-p/12617936#M74225
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. Which post am I looking at again?
@harasnicole For the Gallery issues, you're looking at the first post on page one of that thread. For the other, there's no fix, so just keep an eye on the thread overall for an update saying the feature is back now, or possibly that it's never coming back. (I don't know what will happen with that.) You can post in either thread, or both, or neither, but if you have further issues with the Gallery, please do use that thread I linked.
Oh, no, the Gallery issue was fixed when I had the one small opportunity to open and close the game and then restarted it.
I'm back to the loading issue and not being able to advance to the main menu because I know there's something on my computer that's affecting it, I just can't figure out what it is.
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