Can't Play Sims 4 without internet
OK, so I bought game and got home only to realize you must install it with internet. Well I live in the country and don't have internet. So lugged heavy tower to husbands office, downloaded and played...
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Didn't work for me.
I can get into Origin without being online but it then says I've not activated the game, which I can't do offline. Except I have. I played for hours yesterday
I can get into Origin without being online but it then says I've not activated the game, which I can't do offline. Except I have. I played for hours yesterday
The same thing happened to me. I used the internet to activate the game played for hours and hours, now my roommates have shut off the internet and I went to play. Could log into origin but couldn't play the game, said it needed to be activated online and I have already done that. Why can't I play without the internet? This is so frustrating...
Do you have a laptop or desktop ? I do not know why it's happening to some.
If you have a laptop, try if it works in airplane mode.
- Thanks this worked of or me 😜👍
- Had you set Origin to offline mode before your roommates shut off the Internet?
AS far as I know you need Origin to be set to offline mode before your Internet going offline.That's not exactly practical.
As it happens I couldn't get online because my ISP were having issues nationally. Obviously I couldn't forsee that one. I could still log in to origin on offline mode. The game was just saying it needed to be activated, which it already has been.
The game does still show up in myGames, right ?
I also had the same problem & the same initial frustration, but after a few tries I also realized I had to log into my origin account, go to the "my games" menu & click on the game there to get it to launch ... which took a few moments to do so, but after a few minutes, it did finally work & haven't had a problem again so far. I believe the first time or two, I only put my pc to sleep after closing out the game, instead of restarting it. Since then and after playing it a couple of times that way, I restarted my pc again, and haven't had the issue since that time. I hope this helps & sincerely hope you are able to resolve this problem! Best of luck to you (and to the others who expressed difficulties with this same issue I initially had! 🙂
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