People have been reporting this afternoon that they've been getting busy server messages from Origin. There may be increased traffic because a new patch was released today.
When I was trying to download the latest patch earlier, it kept saying unsuccessful for some reason which is probably the same reason why you're having this issue. I just restarted everything and my game has been updated.
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Speaking of which, can anyone link me to a thread that explains what's in the new patch?
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/782619/new-patch#latest
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