Sims 2 Ultimate Collection Dead?

Have tried at various times to launch the game via the EA app over the past several days.  Each time the launching box briefly appears then goes away.  On a couple of occasions that departure even crashed the app.  Tried tonight using the offline method and got an error message saying the license has expired.  I found no place for TS2 at Answers HQ, only 4 and 3.  Not looking good unless I can get an old Windows XP machine working again.

Any thoughts?