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Two people can't play on same account at same time now?
Starfree
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Heyo. My grand-niece plays occasionally on her laptop using my account & today she decided to play while I was online. This hasn't been a problem in the past; one of us plays online the other plays offline. However, when she chose the "offline" option after entering id & password she got the "Well that didn't go as expected" message & couldn't do anything. When we reversed it (her online me trying to play offline) I got the same. Was just wondering if anyone who shares their account with family/friend also had a problem with playing at the same time today.
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I know I've read somewhere, maybe at EA.com, that it was okay to do, at least for people in the same household. I wonder if something has changed. I'll test it and see if I can still do it.
Yeah, but I assumed that they weren’t in the same household, since it’s OPs grand niece. My bad if they are.
Usually I am online on my desktop or laptop while she plays offline on her desktop, but she hasn't downloaded Get Famous yet, so she was playing on my desktop.
I will test this Sunday when she's home, cause me and her share my account now and I'll be upset if we both have to be offline for it to work now.
ETA: You are not suppose to share accounts with outside family members, but computers in your same household, yes, you can share accounts. Me and my daughter has done it since after City Living when I quit spending double for her a copy and me a copy when she spends most of her time in CAS with CC.
She still feels she needs all the content, so she just shares my account. The only reason she had her own account is cause she bought her the bases game with birthday money and wanted to get online at the same time as me.
Yes, you can share accounts with household family members and yes you can (or could, have to test) have one person online while the other is offline. We have 4 desktops and 3 laptops in this house. Sims 4 from my account is installed on 3 desktops and 1 laptop. Me, my husband, and my daughter have all played at the same time on our own computers. My son now uses my daughters old account since he doesn't care to have all content, only what interests him.
I thought too they probably weren't in the same household, but I would assume it would still work unless something has changed.
@irishluck1986, you can. Only one person can be online though (ie: use gallery & other online features) the other person has to play offline & won't be able to access the gallery or other online features.
It's been like that for my family since Sims 4 came out - so you are lucky you could do that at all. They made my granddaughters get their own game and account on top of it when they reached 16. They could not even use their moms account at all even when she wasn't using it after their birthdays. So you are really lucky you had been able to do that at all. The girls were always fighting over who could play before they got their own games and accounts.
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Origin has a similiar feature, just select "Go Offline" from the menu. No need to actually disable/turn off internet.
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