Failed to launch error/Fully Black Screen when using CC

It's not helping most people, from what I'm seeing in the comments. And it doesn't work for me, either 🫩

its been urgent for 3 days :') Ive been on house rest as ive recently returned from the hospital and the sims is one of my only pass-times that I can enjoy   ! yalls game never works

@ pinoyeon because EA/the sims never admits they're wrong lol

A previously troublesome folder now is working for my game with a new user folder, as well as adding in individual .package files. And by "working", I mean the no-launch issue is now happening LESS overall. In my old user folder, it would crash CONSISTENTLY every time with specific CC .package files. Now, it is only crashing like 5-6 of the times of me launching the game consistently.

This is an improvement, but having to chunk in these package files slowly like this is excruciating, especially considering how much CC I have. EA, for the love of god, I hope y'all figure this out. This is not something that should be happening.

The new update has caused my game to not work. It was working fine before and now says "Failed to Launch Game".  Also says EA is working on it and try back later. 

This!!! It’s status has changed to reviewed which means ITS A BUG!! Where is the public post about it????

Found a solution that works for me personally. Completely turned off my internet on my computer and it booted up just fine. What a coincidence. (sarcasm noted). So yea... The implication that they don't want us to access anything other than what they can make money off of is palpable. We need someone to make a mod that allows us to keep playing it offline before they remedy that too by making completely unplayable without the internet. 

Their socials still say it’s been resolved when it hasn’t. 

Why are you asking ChatGPT for advice?? Merging your cc files is BAD. This isn’t an amount of CC as the issue— it’s how the game reads .package files because of the new market place. This is on EA’s end and they need to either roll the update back or FIX it.

ChatGPT told me that I should merge my CC files.  That would make sense if I knew it was a problem with the volume of CC that I have.  I am not sure that the problem is that cut and dry, so I'm not willing to try that yet.  I avoid merged files. 

But, question for others with heavy CC...do you have many of your files merged?  I have seen people successfully loading with 50-60GB of CC.  Is there an actual limit of the number of files trying to load or with the size of the files?  I don't know.  My backup Mods folder is 155 GB, stored off on another drive awaiting a fix or a solution.