Sims 3 expansion won't download

Greetings again folks.

I appreciate the work around and the hard work people have put in to solve this issue but I really want to call out and criticize EA. It was EA's choice to sunset development and support of Origin and force people into using the EA App when clearly there are still massive bugs and massive issues that need to be solved. I am incredibly disappointed in EA that I have spent money on products that I cannot access on a platform that I was forced into using. I never had this issue with Origin. It has persisted for far too long on the EA App. It has been weeks since official response and frankly I don't believe anyone at EA cares or is working on this issue because it seems like a fairly simple issue to solve and not something that requires weeks. And if it does transparency about whatever the issues might be would be appreciated. We are in the dark here without any recourse, save for the work people outside of EA have put in but we shouldn't have to jump through massive outside EA hoops to play a product we have purchased on an app that EA forced us into using. We should be able to download and play the products we have purchased on the application that EA has forced us into using.

Please, please, please fix this issue and please be more transparent and honest about what the issues are and what the real timeline is. I'm calling out the EA representatives that have responded thus far for more information. @EA_Cade , @EA_Solaire 

Edit - the work around suggested in post #26 doesn't work for me because I am not allowed to run both the EA App and origin at the same time.

Edit #2 - Nevermind my first edit. I opened Origin and my Sims 3 downloads all started and everything downloaded while Origin was open. Awesome work @itsmeelisemarie