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camarossz28888

Woke up this early morning just to play sims 4 and I can't login.
When I tried to sign in in Origin it says Online login is currently unavailable.
I found a website that monitors the origin when its down or something like that and a lot of other players commenting that they too cant login and play the game. Is this global?
here is the link, http://downdetector.com/status/origin
Pls help and thank you.

SamadamsPlayer

I'm having the same issue , I'm from the Uk , I hope it's fixed soon

camarossz28888

Origin is working now, Thanks!

Lizzychicago

Same here in Chicago...cannot login and play.

Lizzychicago

camarossz28888 wrote: »

Origin is working now, Thanks!

Not here in Chicago.

PinkSugar81

Not working here either.

happygurl

Same here.

pammiechick

Not working in Texas! Dang!

CarpeNoctemSims

It's sporadic, seems to be crashing since the past 24 hours according to some downage sites.

krae64

Its patch day, so is it safe to assume I cant play or update game due to excessive activity?

freindlylol

i cant get on either cant even update origin for some reason

Simsister2004

Something is definately wrong with Origin. When I log in I get this screen:

And I can only play the game if I play offline and then through my desktop icon. This trouble started 16 - 1 - 2017.

DragonAge_300905

Something's wrong with origin. I've been trying to download ME since yesterday. I've only been able to download 5 GBs in the last 24 hours. I hope they fix it before the vampire game pack is released.

rosemow

DragonAge_300905 wrote: »

Something's wrong with origin. I've been trying to download ME since yesterday. I've only been able to download 5 GBs in the last 24 hours. I hope they fix it before the vampire game pack is released.

Hello
Perhaps try uninstalling and reinstalling origin and see if that helps.

DragonAge_300905

rosemow wrote: »

DragonAge_300905 wrote: »

Something's wrong with origin. I've been trying to download ME since yesterday. I've only been able to download 5 GBs in the last 24 hours. I hope they fix it before the vampire game pack is released.

Hello
Perhaps try uninstalling and reinstalling origin and see if that helps.

I considered doing that but with the way origin's behaving on my computer, I'm afraid that I won't be able to play any games that are installed through origin. I'm not sure origin will complete the download to install it. I tried to chat with Ea through origin's tech page, it never went past the waiting for an EA operator to connect. Even though it said there was no wait time, the chat didn't go through and connect me to a chat person.

Mass effect 3 just rebooted my computer while playing the game, it needs to be connected to EA servers to play the game. I was running around talking to the crew, 30 minutes of conversation and not saving. I have to do it all again.

Origin is buggy, steam doesn't have these problems. Ea needs to fix origin so it works with people like me who are stuck with satellite connections to the internet. Dial up with a modem has faster internet speed than my satellite does. Every server in steam and origin is long distance for me. If I used dial up, I'd be paying a lot of money for long distance calls. I'd love to have dsl or cable but it's not supplied to my area. EA needs to fix origin so it works with slow internet connections.

DragonAge_300905

I used the sims 4 servers to install origin. Origin's servers are still timing out when my speed drops into the KBs but at least it will start again when my speed goes into the 1.01 MBs. My satellite connection never holds steady at the MB speed though.

EA still needs to fix origin for the slower download speeds

theworldofemily

Hi there, my origin account seems to do this every time I want to play Sims4. Does anyone know what to do? I'm very worried it's broken.
Many thanks, Em x

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rosemow

theworldofemily wrote: »

Hi there, my origin account seems to do this every time I want to play Sims4. Does anyone know what to do? I'm very worried it's broken.
Many thanks, Em x

/Users/emilyslatter/Pictures/origin issues.jpg

Hello
I am sorry that you are having issues
We are unable to see pictures that are on simmers computers , They need to be uploaded to a photo sharing site,
Because you aren't a member yet, you can't post pictures or links, but you can upload your picture to a photo sharing site such as imgur or tinypic , then right click the picture on the photo sharing site and copy/paste the image address link here, but break the image code link up, such as putting h.tt.p.
We can then put the codes back together and post the picture for you.

theworldofemily

Thank you @rosemow - you are always a great help. I don't know how to use imgur so I'll try my best to describe it.
I play the Sims4 on a mac with the game installed to a hard drive so that I have more space. But every time I open Sims4, origin pops up telling me I need to update the game. This is fair enough. So I click the 'Update' button for the game, and it says "Game installation directory invalid. Try new directory."
I just have absolutely NO idea what this means, and I can't find ANYWHERE on the internet that helps me. There was an article about drives and files but I don't understand it. Do you know anyone that might be able to help me?

Thanks again, Em x

rosemow

theworldofemily wrote: »

Thank you @rosemow - you are always a great help. I don't know how to use imgur so I'll try my best to describe it.
I play the Sims4 on a mac with the game installed to a hard drive so that I have more space. But every time I open Sims4, origin pops up telling me I need to update the game. This is fair enough. So I click the 'Update' button for the game, and it says "Game installation directory invalid. Try new directory."
I just have absolutely NO idea what this means, and I can't find ANYWHERE on the internet that helps me. There was an article about drives and files but I don't understand it. Do you know anyone that might be able to help me?

Thanks again, Em x

Hello @theworldofemily
It would be best to post about your issues in a thread in the Mac section of the forums. Mac simmers there will help you. The link to that section is
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/the-sims-4-on-mac-discussions

tams2578

Simsister2004 wrote: »

Something is definately wrong with Origin. When I log in I get this screen:

And I can only play the game if I play offline and then through my desktop icon. This trouble started 16 - 1 - 2017.

I had that same problem (except in English)so I just logged out and then logged back in. It works for me again now. Maybe you could try that if it's still not working for you.

Simsister2004

Simsister2004 wrote: »

Something is definately wrong with Origin. When I log in I get this screen:

And I can only play the game if I play offline and then through my desktop icon. This trouble started 16 - 1 - 2017.

I get this screen again for more than a week now. Logging in and out doesn't help anything. Denmark here. To get access to my games overview, I need to go to this page: https://www.origin.com/swe/da-dk/my-home

rosemow

Hello @Simsister2004
Try clearing origin cache files and see if that helps
http://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2014/09/delete-origin-cache-files/
If the issue remains, try uninstalling and reinstalling origin.

Simsister2004

Yessss, it helped. Thanks a bunch rosemow and have a nice day.

rosemow

Simsister2004 wrote: »

Yessss, it helped. Thanks a bunch rosemow and have a nice day.

You're welcome That is great!

Simsister2004

So great. I deleted the cache files. Then I was resetting the game, and it runs very fine.