I am also having this issue after installing the Holiday update. Never had a single crash problem with the game until tonight, and now every time I try to load the game, it hangs at the initial loading screen and won't go anywhere. Definitely not pleased.
Edit: I gave it a bit of time, and it caught up but I'm reluctant to play a house for fear that it'll just crash and I'll lose progress again.
It happened to me as well, only i made sure my mods ect were not there before the update, and it still freezes on loading game, im not happy bout this, due to fact ive had good run so far with this game.
EA gurus: Please post the solution for this problem. The game loads if you leave it long enough. Then it said I wasn't online. It took another few minutes of a frozen screen before I was online. Then it worked OK. But, this ridiculous loading time is not OK. I've had no problem with the game before. Thank you!
Agreed. There was no issue whatsoever with loading time prior to this update. Hope they release a fix soon.
