Origin fixed my game. The EA app couldn't fix it no matter how many times I repaired the game. I had to sit staring at the screen of EA app is your new gaming app while origin did the repairs. Then the EA app deleted the origin files in my computer which it hadn't done before when I switched to the EA app. Before it just uninstalled origin, this time it deleted the origin files off my computer.
EA dumped a broken app on us and took away a working launcher that could actually repair the sims game.