Yeah, that can be a lot to collect , to avoid the Origin issues. Ebay is a great place to look for those, and you can often find them pretty cheap. I even got all of The Sims 2 stuff that way, so no need to have Origin for that, either, and I think there is a lot to do even in that one, still. Lots of folks sells the discs, though, who prefer to go digital and eliminate stuff in their homes, so they can be found! I intentionally looked for the discs, myself, and only the store/online only stuff isn't on those, but I have the downloaded sim3pack files saved outside of the game, too - just copied all from the "downloads" folder into another file, and you can even put those on a disc, and just install them that way. I've done that when switching computers, rather than downloading it all again. You can select up to fifteen at a time, and, with the launcher already open, right-click and "open" them, and they should install. No internet needed then, and you have the security of knowing even if the store someday vanished, you'd still have those files.
