I don't know how it'll work but I'm hoping if we have IE installed on our computers now then it'll still allow us to use it for Sims 3. The problem will happen when/if we get a new computer and can't install IE onto it. I've tried using IE a few times over the past year or two and it doesn't cope with most of what I want to do with it so I suspect they really abandoned it some time ago.
It'll be up to EA to decide if they want us to still be able to play Sims 3. They will decide if they want us to still be able to access the store and the launcher. Probably the launcher will be the problem. I hope, if they do update it they don't decide it is a great opportunity to force us all onto the Origin only version of the game. IF they do it'll probably be the end of my Sims 3 experience as I don't want to have to cope with all the issues created by having to connect to Origin and suffer the consequences of it making my playing life miserable.
