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Louisa0926
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3 days ago

Sims 4 – EA App Doesn’t Allow Language Change After Repair

Hi everyone,

I’ve run into an issue this week 06/04/2025 that I’ve never experienced before. After repairing The Sims 4 via the EA App, the option to change the game language seems to have disappeared. The " menu now only shows English, and I can no longer switch it back to Traditional Chinese.

Previously, I was able to play The Sims 4 in Traditional Chinese even though my EA App was in English. No matter how many times I repaired or updated the game in the past, the language settings were never affected—until now.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
Reinstalled the EA App and Sims 4
Changed the "locale" setting to ZH_TW
Tried other common workarounds I could find online

Unfortunately, nothing has worked. Has anyone else run into this issue recently? If so, were you able to fix it? I’d really appreciate any help or suggestions to get the language back to Traditional Chinese.

Hopefully this is just a temporary bug and EA will fix it in a future update.

Thanks so much in advance!

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    puzzlezaddict
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    3 days ago

    Louisa0926  There is a language-locked version of Sims 4 that only includes English, and it's sold in the U.K. and maybe elsewhere (but not in the U.S.).  Have you ever bought Sims 4 content in Britain, or perhaps bought a code that might have originally come from there?  If so, that might have imposed this language-locked version on your account.

    To be clear, this can happen after buying DLC even if all your previous content came from elsewhere.

    Regardless, you can try uninstalling the game and reinstalling it in Traditional Chinese.  Sometimes the problem is the EA App itself, not the language entitlement.  Let me know what options you have when reinstalling.

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