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http://ea-land.ea.com
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I am a paying subscriber, but in EA-Land my Sim page shows 'visitor' or "I can't enter some lots"
Only paying subscribers have access to all lot types in EA-Land. It happens a few times per day that the game will see a paying customer as a free customer on EA-Land. We are working actively on finding the cause of that issue. Most users find that quiting completely the game and relaunching it solves the issue. Most of the problems (but not all) come from launching an old client in the first place (see top most issue), so be careful about that.
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Make sure she is launching the game using a new patched and updated version by using the tso.exe launch icon from tsopatch folder.
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Most common mistake
For all issues, please make sure you are launching the proper code:
If you are not using the shortcuts installed by the game, you will quickly run into trouble. The game needs to be launched by running the code in TSOPatch/TSO.exe, which will properly upgrade (patch) the code to the latest version.
If you do not launch this but instead launch a shortcut pointing to TSOClient/TSOClient.exe, you will sooner or later try to login with a game which is out of date and it will potentially create one of the conditions below. When the game was not changing every week, it was safe to launch directly from TSOClient/TSOClient.exe, but now that we are updating the game at least once a week, it is not safe anymore, so please use the proper shorcut.
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