If you had played The Sims 4, The Sims 3, or other EA game, you may have encountered a game that starts up Origin (I call these games, Origin sign-in games). It seems The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection now includes the Origin sign-in requirement as I tried starting the game and Origin launched. Previously, it didn't launch Origin and simply ran the game.
What EA doesn't tell you is that older games may be changed to require Origin sign-in as this happened with The Sims 3 and The Sims Medieval, both didn't have Origin sign-in requirements but now they do. Sadly Origin doesn't have a way to telling if a game requires Origin sign-in or not. In my example, Mass Effect and Dead Space required Origin sign-in but Dragon Age: Origins didn't.
On the plus side, SecuROM is removed so there will not be any activation limits but now you have to deal with Origin starting up which can increase the start up time if Origin isn't running especially on hard drive and/or older computers. You can milgate this by having Origin start up with Windows but people would turn it off for performance reasons although I don't think it would matter on today's computers especially gaming/workstation desktops.
What do you think of The Sims 2 requiring Origin to run?
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I hate the idea though. I don't know why they just can't leave the older games alone. There is zero point in linking it to Origin, other then to annoy. There are no benefits. If you already had the game installed, you still have Securom, unless you removed it yourself. That is only good for new downloads. Frankly I would rather go through removing it myself, it is not hard.
I guess it's nice they removed SecuRom but is Origin any better? I messed up and had to reinstall it with the update. I just don't update Origin and stay Offline.
It ain't old really. We can not discuss how to do this on the forum though.
This. It's not like they are going to actually make updates to correct corruption issue (and frankly, i would rather them to not do it. Of course i would be happy if they really manage to stop corruption without any side effect but that's totally impossible and let's be realistic: They'll need time, budget and a special team to do so, they don't have any of that) or any other things.
And i hate it too, even if i use the origin log-in now
Ya exactly. They are not getting rid of game issues, they just "update it" to be better with 10 and such. Not like that has been good it has caused some people a host of new issues. Fail.... of course I wouldn't expect any better. I am with you though, I don't want them to touch it, that is SCARY!!!
hows it super old
This is for a PC - if you have a Mac it may be similar though not exact.
find your game files in the hard drive; path is: Computer/ C/ Program Files (x86)/ EA games / Sims 2 Ultimate Collection / Fun with pets/ SP9 /TSBin/
Create a desktop icon from the Sims2EP9 in the TSBin. It says application.
See if that works for you.
Hi
You downloaded TS2 UC Yesterday and are running it without Origin?
the sims 2, the sims 3, and the sims 4 all require origin sign in for me.
And you're not affected by the patch that makes you require Origin. Which was what Rflong was referring to. People who download the UC today, will require Origin to play. Which is what this thread is referring to. That the patch released earlier this year that removed Securom from the UC added in the requirement for Origin to be on in order to play.
All we can say is to google it.