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6 months ago
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Launching The Sims 2 UC forces me to activate (with Origin i think)

Hi all,

Sorry for (perhaps) asking obvious questions here..

I've had Sims 2 UC in my EA account for years, and still visibile in the app.

I can login to the EA without any issues, and installing the game.

However, when I launch it, an origin window pops up, asking me to active the game by entering username and password.

Of couse, my EA credentials doesnt work.

When contacting support, they just say that the registration servers are shutdown (since 2018), and that I only can play offline with original discs.

What to do?

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    kinget99
    6 months ago

    Nope, never got it to work on that particular machine.

    Contacted the support again, and specifically asked if "running the game on a arm64 system" would be the issue.

    Got a straight "no"

    But, i tried it on another system which is x64 based, and it worked like a charm there.

    The lesson here is that the EA Support step up their game and actually answer my questions instead of just reading their "manual".

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  • @kinget99 , did you ever activate the game when you had Origin? If so, the game should have transferred to your EA App Account. Tell EA Help you had the game in your Origin account and need help transferring it to the EA App.

  • kinget99's avatar
    kinget99
    6 months ago

    Nope, never got it to work on that particular machine.

    Contacted the support again, and specifically asked if "running the game on a arm64 system" would be the issue.

    Got a straight "no"

    But, i tried it on another system which is x64 based, and it worked like a charm there.

    The lesson here is that the EA Support step up their game and actually answer my questions instead of just reading their "manual".

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