And still my daughter can't play "Sims 4" on her Linux laptop ... not because of the game itself but because of EA's pathetic program starter "Origin". Even Steam's Proton environment stopped working.
So sad and frustrating.
Isn't there a way to play this game without "Origin"?
The mileage you get with Wine is highly dependent on the individual game.
PS. I downloaded the cracked copy, and deleted it before 24 hours, which makes it legal where I live (Poland). Also I own a physical copy of that game, but I couldn't be bothered to get Origin to run.
I would check out Lutris if you haven't. The Sims 4 is popular and so someone helpfully created an install script to get it running with Lutris:
The frustrating part is the game itself would be working like charm in Wine but the stupid launcher app keeps getting updated and is doing all kinds of complicated DLL and system calls although all it really needs to do with respect to "Sims 4" is to check your license and start the game.
So even if you get the game running for some time, ultimately, "Origin" will stop working one time or another.
I actually kind of loath constantly updating single player games. It usually breaks my working install.