It shows on Origin that I am playing on offline mode however every time I go to play the game I can play for about 6mins until im kicked out of the game. Only the unending ticking of chronological time will tell. I used to have internet but had to shut it down. From there, just untick the Online Access option and you'll play the game Offline. This can also be done by going in The Sims 4's Settings panel and selecting Other. Unless of course they have something else planned for them, that they've yet to unveil. After launching The Sims 4, the game will think that you're not connected to the internet and you'll be switched to Offline Mode. The PC/Mac exclusivity is an odd one - it's hard to see why EA would want to deliberately avoid the next-gen goldmine for a series that always sells infinity copies, plus infinity more of the infinity DLCs that follow. So with that in their history, and a whole lot of well-earned hatred and hostility over their ludicrous bullshit with the ultimately pretty awful SimCity, it makes some sense. It was a flop, endlessly mucked around with, before being madly renamed EA Land, then finally and mercifully stamped to death just six months later. Of course, it's not like EA didn't already quite impressively screw up a fully online incarnation of the Sims, inspiringly called The Sims Online.
The Sims 4 is a simulation and management game in which we can create and customize an avatar, build the house of our dreams and live a new virtual life. In fact, it's hard to not assume that at one point there would have been plans to have it and SimCity integrated. 8/10 (11758 votes) - Download The Sims 4 Free. Bearing in mind its enormous, mainstream reach, and how easy that would be to monetise online, avoiding making networked neighbourhoods a requirement must have still taken some doing. In a world of microtransacted social networking skateboards and the like, to keep a massive franchise like this offline is certainly rather a big deal.
It's tempting to say, "Well, they got burned, so obviously," but it's actually rather a big deal. Presumably before curling his head away and begging, "please love us now!" Producer Grant Rodiek told Mr Garrett's site that it's "an offline, client-based game".
Sims 4, the PC and Mac-only release (I can't see that lasting - surely 3DS, Vita and next-gen ports will eventually appear?) will play one hundred percent offline, according to a report from VG247. After their utterly stupid and inherently selfish decision to artificially force SimCity to be always online, and then lie about why, it seems this time out they've decided not to push their luck. Once bitten, and bitten, and bitten, twice shy, it seems at Maxis.