EA App Required Now?

PC users are now apparently required to use the EA App (or at least the origin app wouldn't let me log in and insisted I swap over to the EA app, as we've been expecting). Downloading and installing the EA App wiped out all of my save files and mods. If I wasn't already in the mode of backing everything up before an update (and also having my Sims uploaded to the Gallery for safe keeping) I would've just lost more than 2 years of continuous game play.

So make a backup folder before you install the new EA App.