Is Pre-2012 CD the only way to play Sims w/o internet?

@LadyGreenEyes, I have only Late Night, Seasons, University Life, Island Paradise and Into the Future in disc form in terms of EPs so I’ve gotta lot of searching for EP discs to do and two copies of the pre-2012 base game disc. But I’m seriously thinking about going that route and getting off Origin. My fault is that I only started playing any version of Sims in Jan 2017 so didn’t even think about the game until I got seriously addicted to the game.