User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/EA to go 100% digital. What does this mean for The Sims series and players?/@comment-3505794-20121110075732

As long as this doesn't effect downloading expansions from Amazon. That way I can play the game without a disk in the drive and I don't need to worry about any of that mess that is Origin.

That is, unless EA thinks it'll be a good idea to make Origin a requirement to play The Sims 3, then it's Game Over...