The Sims 3 disc user or through Origin?

@Mermaid_Ellix  First of all, if you have a base game disc manufactured in or after September 2012, or you plan to install even one pack through Origin, you'll land on patch 1.69 regardless.  So it's much less complicated to just install everything through Origin.  Disc and digital installs are supposed to play nicely with each other, but that's not always the case, so a purely digital install is better than a mixed one.

It should also be noted that some newer disc drives don't read TS3 discs properly.  But this should be obvious after you install the base game—if it launches and then throws a no-disc-found error (or fails to install properly at all), you're stuck installing through Origin.

If you own disc copies of all your packs, and a base game made before September 2012 (the newer ones have an Origin logo on the front, the older ones don't; this is only critical for the base game disc specifically), then you can do an all-disc install and avoid Origin entirely.  You wouldn't have to install Origin at all, much less let it control your game.

There are two obvious advantages to this.  The first is that you won't have to sign into Origin and let it run in the background while you play.  The second is that patch 1.69 introduced the pack selector, which lets you disable certain packs when you don't want to play with them.  In practice, this tool tends to forget which packs you've checked off or even ignore your selections, forcing you to quit and relaunch when you realize that some packs haven't loaded.

If you do decide to install via disc, do not allow the EADM to control your install when it asks.  This is Origin's predecessor, and it will do everything it can to "upgrade" itself to Origin.  In fact, many people install while disconnected from the internet, just to be careful.

With a disc install, you'll also need to manually patch the game to 1.67.  You can download the Super Patch and then run it after installing the base game, and again after you install all of your packs.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/175477/official-ea-download-link-for-the-sims-3-cumulative-manual-update

The games are manufactured in 2013. Also if installing with the disc and having my internet off i won't have to install Origin, even after playing a couple days later when clicking on the launcher there won't be an option to login in Origin at all? (Because i have heard that now to play TS3 you're required to have Origin). 

Plus what's the problem with having Origin when playing TS3, i didn't quite get it.

Thank you for helping by the way.

I have my current TS3 games through Origin. It's nice because you'll always have those games, you won't ever lose them or they get ruined like you do w/ disks. I still have my disks, but I might actually sell them. Don't have to worry about the download codes. Plus, not all newer laptops have a disk drive anymore since everything is digital anymore. I know, because my first ever laptop my husband bought me like 4 years ago, he bought it for me like a month before Christmas and then for Christmas presented me w/ the Sims 4 disk. Went to put it in and lo and behold, no disk drive. Had to go buy a portable one. Also, just like the previous comment said, newer systems might not read the disks because they are, well, roughly 10, 11 years old (at least since the base game).

@Mermaid_Ellix  It doesn't matter when the rest of the discs were manufactured, just the base game.  If its copyright date (on the back, in small print) says 2013, then you'll have to play through Origin no matter how you install.

The later base game discs require you to install Origin before installing TS3, and on these kinds of installs, you can't launch the game unless you're logged into Origin already.  This isn't true for older discs—you can install and launch the game without having Origin on your computer at all.  You just double-click on the shortcut on your desktop, and the launcher loads without any Origin involvement.  Some people don't mind having to sign into Origin before playing, but others don't like it running in the background, or they have spotty internet and worry about not being able to play if their connection goes out.

The other issue is that patch 1.69 added a pack selector to the launcher, so players have to check boxes to indicate which packs they want to load before pressing play.  This pack selector has been known to forget which packs you previously checked off, and it sometimes deselects packs while leaving their boxes checked.  So you don't know that there's anything wrong until you load your save, and items have disappeared (or the save can't load at all).  Then you have to quit to desktop, uncheck and recheck all the boxes, and hope that your selections stick this time.

But again, all of this is a moot point if your base game is one of the newer ones.

P.S.  I didn't see your additional comment until now.  If you're comfortable with the way an Origin install works, then there's no reason to change.  But please don't sell your discs, especially if your copy of the base game is one of the newer ones.  The buyer won't be able to register the codes in or install through Origin, so if an all-disc install isn't possible, the discs will be worthless.  Sorry, I confused the two posters there.  The point stands about not selling discs, but I clearly didn't pay enough attention.

@puzzlezaddict @ThatsSoGallistra Thank you so much for answering! But lastly if installing through Origin does the game and saves ect. will they be saved on my pc?

@ThatsSoGallistra  Once a code is activated and accepted by the system, it can not be reused. If you sell the game the new person can not use the old code in a new Origin account. The disks are mastered with copy guard (why I don't  know) so the disc can not be reproduced. Some optical drives don't seem to be able to read the authentication data. There are some large files on the disc and some optical drives give a crc error during the installation. Origin is much like Steam and Steam has been widely accepted. Sims 3 was released with the DRM of SecuROM and SafeDisc. As Windows and OS X no longer support SecuROM and SafeDisc, the new DRM became Origin. I use both Origin and Steam and have no issues. Origin has been the DRM for this game since 2012 and the game HAS to be activated through Origin to run.

Great! Thank you for the help, found it very useful :D