

As an additional bonus, you will typically gain access to new EA games five days before they are released, without paying extra. If you decided to pay the subscription fee, you are going to get full access to over 70 older games in EA’s “vault”. You can purchase games through Origin and play them normally without any subscription fee. You don’t need to pay for Origin Access to use Origin. Origin Access is the subscription service attached to Origin. It primarily but not only offers EA games. A macOS client was rolled out on February 8, 2013. In the event that you lose your save files in-game, simply open your backup save folder select and copy all the files in the folder and then paste them into the Sims 4 saves folder.Origin is an online gaming, digital distribution and digital rights management platform made by EA that allows users to buy games for PC and mobile platforms. Change the name of the save folder to “Sims 4 Saves (date the copy was created)” and now your save is backed-up! Paste the copy of the saves folder to your desktop and/or external hard-drive. Go to Documents>Electronic Arts>Sims 4 find the ‘Saves’ folder and ‘right click’ on it to make a copy for the folder. This truly would have been devastating if I hadn’t made a copy of my save file.īacking up your save file is super simple and only takes a minute, but it will save you the heartache of losing hundreds of hours in building and storylines that you may have become emotionally invested in.įollow these simple steps once or twice a month (or however often you think is necessary) to ensure you don’t lose valuable progress in your game. After not playing for a couple of months, my saves suddenly disappeared after my game updated. So I’ve seen several posts recently about people losing their saves.
