Sims 4 won't install

I just downloaded the $9.99 Black Friday 75%discount Sims 4 base-game via Origin because lets face it, I wasn't going to buy something s elemental for 60 dollars... It downloaded... But now it can't install! It just sends a beam of light across the bar (is this fishing?) until it gives me an error message, something about a VC++ run-time redistributable package wasn't instilled successfully... and codes the message with "1602" at the end... They don't sell discs anymore and frankly, I think downloading is better and more secure and they're ceasing to build CD drives in newer gaming computers anyway... There is no code that I know of to enter into origin because it is a DOWNLOAD... If I can't fix this, then I'm going to have to consider it to be some kind of theft... too many people are having this problem and as a person who has called The Sims their favorite game since Sims 1 as a five year old, it would be really sad to have to talk to a lawyer about the many thousands of dollars made on a product that isn't...well... a product... I want to see the Sims 5 some day so please... please help me with this!