EA App Required Now?

"PhilSims;c-18234736" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-18234733" wrote:
Day 1 was fine. Day 2...apparently there is an error and I cannot load the game. If I switch to offline, all my games vanish from the list. I am not amused. I'm disappointed. I've been at work all day, now it's time to have some fun, and I'm getting annoyed instead. :(

I had that earlier, rebooted my PC and it went away.

That's a good idea, thank you. I will try that. If it still doesn't work, I guess I have no excuse but to do something useful...

"Mariefoxprice83;c-18234737" wrote:

"PhilSims;c-18234736" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-18234733" wrote:
Day 1 was fine. Day 2...apparently there is an error and I cannot load the game. If I switch to offline, all my games vanish from the list. I am not amused. I'm disappointed. I've been at work all day, now it's time to have some fun, and I'm getting annoyed instead. :(

I had that earlier, rebooted my PC and it went away.

That's a good idea, thank you. I will try that. If it still doesn't work, I guess I have no excuse but to do something useful...

Working now? I would hate to force you into doing something useful.

I will do everything in my power to keep you as un-useful as you wish.

I was forced over last weekend. Everything came over okay but yesterday my game crashed. I hadn't saved in a while and lost a lot of gameplay. I used to have to save often when I played the sims 3 so I will just need to get back into the habit of frequently saving. I also noticed it takes a lot longer to load between screens and to save. I think perhaps I've been spoiled by years of the game working pretty well for me.

"EA_Cade;c-18234751" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-18234737" wrote:

"PhilSims;c-18234736" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-18234733" wrote:
Day 1 was fine. Day 2...apparently there is an error and I cannot load the game. If I switch to offline, all my games vanish from the list. I am not amused. I'm disappointed. I've been at work all day, now it's time to have some fun, and I'm getting annoyed instead. :(

I had that earlier, rebooted my PC and it went away.

That's a good idea, thank you. I will try that. If it still doesn't work, I guess I have no excuse but to do something useful...

Working now? I would hate to force you into doing something useful.

I will do everything in my power to keep you as un-useful as you wish.

Hi, yeah it worked (thanks @PhilSims). I should have thought of rebooting - it's usually the first thing an IT person says, and I've given plenty of people that same advice myself as well, but as usual I immediately opened up everything I wanted so I was trying to avoid closing it all down!

I finally started to do something a little bit useful (writing) but apparently I needed those 2 hours of playing to psych myself up to it! I'm playing characters from my book series at the moment, it's fun to see visual representations of the people in my head, and some of the pictures in my head actually derive from the sims versions I made when I was planning, back in 2019.

Was just forced over too. My main, number one, the most burning complaint is that The Sims 3 Create a World is not compatible with it. If you click edit in game there, it opens the launcher and opens the game normally. With Origin, you could just get the game open in Create a World mode, which allowed you to edit lots in the world you're creating.

And it's not just me, other players have that problem too (and I'll include the link to Answers HQ): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/EA-App-Sims-3-Create-a-World-Edit-in-game-doesn-t-work/td-p/11461331

I think we need to bring this issue to attention as I haven't seen it being talked about elsewhere.

"EgonVM;c-18234821" wrote:
Was just forced over too. My main, number one, the most burning complaint is that The Sims 3 Create a World is not compatible with it. If you click edit in game there, it opens the launcher and opens the game normally. With Origin, you could just get the game open in Create a World mode, which allowed you to edit lots in the world you're creating.

And it's not just me, other players have that problem too (and I'll include the link to Answers HQ): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/EA-App-Sims-3-Create-a-World-Edit-in-game-doesn-t-work/td-p/11461331

I think we need to bring this issue to attention as I haven't seen it being talked about elsewhere.

Heya,

I'm actually currently having discussions on this tool with relevant teams. Obviously the goal is to keep everything running but there are some technical limitations we're working through with a tool that A ) never left Beta to begin with and B ) is extremely old and had to be patched when Origin released to function with it.

Again, the goal is to get it cooperating with the EA app, but I can't promise that will be feasible.

"EA_Cade;c-18234832" wrote:

"EgonVM;c-18234821" wrote:
Was just forced over too. My main, number one, the most burning complaint is that The Sims 3 Create a World is not compatible with it. If you click edit in game there, it opens the launcher and opens the game normally. With Origin, you could just get the game open in Create a World mode, which allowed you to edit lots in the world you're creating.

And it's not just me, other players have that problem too (and I'll include the link to Answers HQ): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/EA-App-Sims-3-Create-a-World-Edit-in-game-doesn-t-work/td-p/11461331

I think we need to bring this issue to attention as I haven't seen it being talked about elsewhere.

Heya,

I'm actually currently having discussions on this tool with relevant teams. Obviously the goal is to keep everything running but there are some technical limitations we're working through with a tool that A ) never left Beta to begin with and B ) is extremely old and had to be patched when Origin released to function with it.

Again, the goal is to get it cooperating with the EA app, but I can't promise that will be feasible.

I'm happy to see that at least it is looked into. I do hope that it will get resolved eventually.

Thank you for answering.

Now not even putting Origin in offline mode is working.

I'm pissed.

I should be able to determine when I upgraded to the EA App. I would have been fine if that meant that I could not update Sims 4 until such time as I updated to EA App. But I should have been able to play my game without having to update to the EA App.

There have still be users with reported issues with the other Sims games that I own and still currently play. I'm not happy about having to possibly troubleshoot problems that should have been resolved BEFORE the switch was made mandatory to even play the game. Still seeing people report packs missing and issues installing store content for Sims 3. Content that had already been installed. And I have every pack and a fair bit of the store, including several worlds. All of my current games are in worlds that are either from an EP or the Store. None are in Sunset Valley. So you can imagine my unease at having to possibly troubleshoot my game to even play some of my saves. It's not like hairs, clothes, and objects, which could be replaced. The world not so much.

This will be impacting my decision to get future EA games - even those unrelated to Sims. Even if I have no issues when I finally decide to deal with it. And I had been trending upwards with my opinion of EA given recent previews of Sims 4 and other games. But this just killed all of that.

Just to give an indication of the type of user I am when it comes to being able to play my games: my main desktop is on Windows 7 because I don't want to risk the issues that cause Sims 2 to not be played to be present and Windows 7 has the lowest chances of that. Yes, I realize that this means I can't play some games. But I was aware that that was likely to be the case at some point when I made the PC.

I'd be having no issues if this was an upgrade your OS or be on your own troubleshooting wise if an update breaks your ability to play the game. Because that's what I signed up for when I bought Windows 7. More and more software and games not being designed to work on it and no longer being supported because of it.

I didn't sign up for having my ability to play being locked behind upgrading my app launching program at some point.

So today we are supposed to change to EA app. But what if I don't want to? Nope-no option to get in there without installing ea app. And this will delete Origin from your pc.....I tried, but can't get around it. Darn it anyways.

"Mariefoxprice83;c-18234790" wrote:

"EA_Cade;c-18234751" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-18234737" wrote:

"PhilSims;c-18234736" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-18234733" wrote:
Day 1 was fine. Day 2...apparently there is an error and I cannot load the game. If I switch to offline, all my games vanish from the list. I am not amused. I'm disappointed. I've been at work all day, now it's time to have some fun, and I'm getting annoyed instead. :(

I had that earlier, rebooted my PC and it went away.

That's a good idea, thank you. I will try that. If it still doesn't work, I guess I have no excuse but to do something useful...

Working now? I would hate to force you into doing something useful.

I will do everything in my power to keep you as un-useful as you wish.

Hi, yeah it worked (thanks @PhilSims). I should have thought of rebooting - it's usually the first thing an IT person says, and I've given plenty of people that same advice myself as well, but as usual I immediately opened up everything I wanted so I was trying to avoid closing it all down!

I finally started to do something a little bit useful (writing) but apparently I needed those 2 hours of playing to psych myself up to it! I'm playing characters from my book series at the moment, it's fun to see visual representations of the people in my head, and some of the pictures in my head actually derive from the sims versions I made when I was planning, back in 2019.

@Mariefoxprice83 OMG! I write too, and I have also recreated my characters in sim form.
Sorry, off topic, but just had to say it!