Sharing Sims 4

[Яoᴙx]

My girlfriend has been using my steam account to play sims 4 for the last few years, but she just got a new computer. How can she play the Sims on her computer and steam account without buying all the DLC over again?
I know family sharing is unavailable because of EA and Origin. Can she purchase the base game, and can I share the DLC? OR will she have to use my steam account to access everything?

[Lady Aeleanor]

Both the base game and the DLC purchased for that base game would be under one account. You cannot share DLC between accounts. So, the only way that she could continue doing that is to use your account on her new computer. However, you could not be logged in on either Steam or Origin accounts yourself. You would have to be offline. Steam or Origin won't allow 2 of the same accounts to be logged in at the same time. She would have to have her own account, buy her own base game, and buy her own DLC.

[Xautos]

even if family sharing was an option for the sake of the argument, if you started playing TS4 the same time she were on it, she'd be kicked off the game because she's only allowed to play when you aren't playing it since the game is registered on your account and you have priority.

I'm afraid that if she wants to continue there are two ways:
1. she buys her own DLC's over time and rediscovers what she lost and eventually gain.
2. she drops what she's doing and uses your computer for TS4.

It would be best she buy her own dlcs in the meantime while she plays from your computer if you can manage it. Also consider the "what if" scenario, that you and she split up, so it's better for you and her that she goes out and buys the dlcs to her base game.

[Wheatbread]

family share

[Jarl Tobi]

yeah you can not family share ea games.
so best thing she gonna have to buy the base game and all dlcs on her account.
it for the best like yous could break up and she'd have no sims 4

[Janek2014]

she will have to use your steam account or buy one more time everything for her account steam

[Lowenstaat]

She must log in to your Steam account to play Sims 4 through Steam. She'll see the Sims 4 Play button on Steam change to Stop then back to Play again. She'll also notice an EA/Origin window briefly appear then disappear. Then the Steam play button for Sims 4 will change back to Stop. Then Sims 4 will begin.

You can still play Steam games on your computer in Offline mode. Click on Steam in the upper left hand corner and select Go Offline... When she finishes using your Steam account to play Sims 4, you can go online again on Steam.

My wife plays the Sims 4 this way through my Steam account even though she has her own Steam account. There is no family sharing for EA games on Steam. Additionally, she does not have an EA/Origin account, so she uses my Steam account that is linked to my EA/Origin account on her laptop.

If I try to play anything online on Steam or on EA/Origin on my computer while she is playing a game, including Sims 4, on her laptop using my accounts, then Steam will give me a warning that if I proceed it will stop her game and access. Similarly, EA/Origin will just stop her game without warning.

Otherwise, Steam family sharing works fine with separate accounts, just not for EA games like Sims 4.

[Lordimbroke]

lol just give it to her