Re: Is there a way to force the EA app open in offline mode?

by ColonelTorchere
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Re: Is there a way to force the EA app open in offline mode?

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You have to go ONLINE first to play OFFLINE via this app. This is asinine. I travel quite a bit and I'm not paying the airline for wifi in order to play a game on a flight where I am required to use Airplane mode.

 

Exceptionally poor planning and design, not to mention exclusionary and disenfranchising, EA.

 

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So is there any Update/info about a fix for this?

 

I did not even know this could become an issue xD.

 

I have always played all my games with an enabled Internet connection. Now that i have moved and am currently in the process of changing Internet providers and having no internet this seriously sucks donkey balls...

 

Best regardsStandard smile

 

(cm edit - removed language)

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Re: Is there a way to force the EA app open in offline mode?

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Agreed.  This is damn ludicrous and after all this time,  it looks like a deliberate hobbling of customers right to run their software offline. 

Honestly think a class action is appropriate at this point.  Shameful of them.

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I've just had this issue too.  I had to set my phone as a mobile hotspot to get online, to tell the EA app to go Offline.  Bloody ridiculous!!! If I hadn't had my phone I'd have been screwed :-( 

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@EA_Leeuw It was almost a year, and it still hasn't been fixed. Why you won't let me play games I paid for? What is wrong with you?
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No, it is in fact not  possible to use Origin instead of the EA App. Because every time the launcher is opened, it brings up a box which cannot be closed requesting me to move to the EA App. At least *try* to be aware of the issues the community faces

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I'm currently without internet and I want to play The Sims but the ea app won't turn on. What is this garbage?

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Yes i cant play my games unless theres a START EA APP IN OFFLINE MODE. Like STEAM and Ubilauncher has. I need a START EA APP EXCLUSIVELY IN OFFLINE ONLY MODE.

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So...will this ever be fixed? I recently lost internet and was speechless to discover that offline play is not possible on the EA app. Why force us to use it if a very important feature like offline play, simply does not exist? 

 

What we have now is not offline play. 

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