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4 years ago

Origin/Sims 4 Won't Launch

Since yesterday I'm unable to open sims 4 but my origin profile shows it as "playing sims 4" but my steam account shows the game as "click to play". I've tried through steam to play but it takes me back to origin and never launches. I've uninstalled both sims 4 and origin and even uninstalled steam but the same issue happens. When I try to recreate a origin account it always takes me back to this account. is anyone else having similar problems or just knows how to fix it?

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  • @RicoziCrazy  Just to clarify, you own the base game in Steam, right?  (Let me know if you own it in Origin and have only added to Steam as a non-Steam game.)  Please try running both Origin and Steam as an admin, and make sure you're signed into Origin with the account that's linked to the Steam account that owns the game.  Even if you think you are, please check anyway: go to ea.com, click the sign-in button, then choose to sign in with your Steam account and see which Origin account opens.  That's the one you need to use in Origin.

  • It's just EA's * service. Origin is such a joke, if I bought the game through steam I have 0 ideas why they need Origin to interfere. It is absolutely the worst service available, and that is unfortunately a fact proven by countless of internet threads. Good luck getting it to work, been having this problem since I shelled out over a hundred dollars on the summer sale for EA games, all of which are probably going to end up refunded at this point. 

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