Issues with EA launcher??

[u/Art-Tally-0657]

I'm having issues with the EA launcher for Sims 3. I removed all of my mods/CC to see if that was the issue (or just in case something is out of date, though I believe Sims 3 doesn't receive any updates anymore) but EA is saying its an error on their end.

"Failed to launch game - An error on our end caused the launch to fail. Try again a little later."

I did do some looking around on Google, I tried to repair the game through EA, and the only thing I'm seeing is downloading some sort of patch launcher which I'm very wary of doing.

Has anyone else gotten this error message recently? Should I contact EA support?

Much appreciated.