I am sorry to have to get everyone down, but it seems that solution mentioned on my previous post on the subject was just temporary. I got this a few days ago when I tried opening up Edit in Game to work on a new world
Now it looks like it was giving me the option to play with Origin offline, but no, no it was not. I tried going into offline mode and using it that way, multiple times, but it simply would not let me. Eventually I got so frustrated that I decided to click on the top one, the always keep Origin up to date, thinking that if I got that dreaded “Welcome to the EA App” screen, I could just disable it, and sure enough, it popped up again, only this time the fix did not work. I hope other people are able still create Sims 3 worlds somehow, even if I can’t. One of the reasons I went back to the Sims 3 was because I enjoyed building the worlds so much. I got so desperate that I eventually downloaded an older version of Origin, and disconnected the internet, so it couldn’t auto update, but that didn’t work either. Now I could make all of my builds part of a saved game file, but I really don’t want to do that. I am so angry at EA, they had to fix something that wasn’t broken and when they broke other things in the process, they still forced everyone else to switch over. I have the old Sims 3 discs somewhere for all of the expansion packs if I remember correctly, but I’m not sure they still work because they’re old and I haven’t use them in a very long time. That’s even ignoring the issue TS1Depot found involving old psychical copies of the Sims 3. As much as I would hate to do so, I my have to use a mod, to get CAW to work now. However, even that is a long shot, because there’s no guarantee that someone will be able to create such a mod. If I can’t use a fully functional CAW anymore after this, I will probably continue this blog, but I will move on, and it will no longer focus on the Sims 3.