(Sims 3) Friends on Origin don't show up in game

[AmbroseLoS]

My good friend and I play Sims 3 through the Origin engine. We are friends in Origin, but when I go to the mailbox to send her an in-game gift, it shows I have no friends.
How can I fix this to show my Origin friends, since that is the engine my discs came with?

I have created allowances for my firewall, and uninstalled Origin and reinstalled the Origin engine probably 5 times since January to try to fix this. Please help.

Thank you.

[EA_Nils]

@AmbroseLoS Hi,

Have you tried adding each other as friends on thesims3.com? As far as I know this feature is currently not available through Origin friends, but rather through the thesims3 website directly.

Let me know how you get on.

Cheers,

Nils