The 'as of yesterday' refers to not needing origin as of 26 July. Have played it since, and don't need it. TS2 UC was gotten I'm guessing about 2 or 3 years or so ago. I have all the disks, so was trying to install them on my Windows 10 machine. Was getting all sorts of error messages, so stared checking the forums here for help. As a result of that contacted EA, and after explaining my situation the rep on the other end gave me the code to download and run the game. After a couple of graphics tweaks, again learned from the forums, the game has been running just fine with neither online connection nor Origin. Have avoided any and all 'updates' to it as I trust EA about as far as I can throw the aircraft carrier Enterprise. TS3 & 4 were wedded to Origin from the get-go, so stuck there.
