Why am I getting forced to install EA App? [ Edited ]

[durt_knap]

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@EA_Darko wrote:

Just so you are aware @Normand_Nadon22 discussing moderation is a breach of the AHQ User Rules and Guidelines.

If you wish to play EA games then you will need to use the EA app, you will no longer be able to use Origin. 

Darko

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Exhibit A: EA and their employees don't understand the concept of KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER. 

At your peril Electronic Arts....

[Normand_Nadon22]

I am posting this on LTT forums, maybe they can pressure EA during a WAN Show!

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1494609-subject-for-wan-show-ea-app-fully-broken-thousands-of-player...

[Omega_Gryphon]

This EA CrApp wants me to buy all my games again and the DLC's.

Only games I have on here are from Steam. If I could get Origin to 

work again I would. But I think they patched it so you can't. I've been

removing lines all morning trying to get it to work. 

[7thMuse]

Love it, freaking radio silence from anyone with an EA before their name for months only for them to come in and threaten a user with a ban for calling them out on it.  Way to go EA

[Ronalkingco]

I am raged by this action

I brought FIFA 23 and was stucked at the anticheat

I spent days to solve it and the only option is to launch the game through ORIGIN.

But now, I wasn't allowed to use it, the only way I can play the game I brought.

SO FUNNY SHAME on you EA

[Mardoin69]

I get that people are unable to play their games due to this garbage EA client. And, my solution was to continue using the Origin client. Lots of people have had success with it and some are still running into issues. My suggestion is to go into the EA client, change it's settings to install games to the original installation directory of the Origin client.....the \Origin Games\ folder. Then just uninstall that crapware EA client altogether. Download the last good working Origin client <which I've linked before...but, it's easy to find on TechSpot...hint hint> and go through the process of installing it, adding the code line into the local.xml....etc. But, if you want to be sure it can't update during this process...disconnect from the internet first untill you've finished the whole process......as was posted earlier in this thread.

Once you have it up and running with the fixes applied, you can connect online again but, DO NOT let Origin client update!! You may need to continue double checking that local.xml to be sure the 'migration disabled = True / 1' stays in the file AND delete those instances of the file 'OriginThinSetupInternal.exe' prior to launching the client. And, if you get a popup about upgrading to EA client......abort that chit. Close out Origin client....double check the file is good still and re-delete those exe's. Then re-launch Origin. They're going to keep trying to force us out of the Origin client so, stay on your toes.

[SaintCynicism]

Sounds about right. They don't care, if they ever have, but it feels like it's been a race to the bottom of the barrel ever since they rolled out Project Ten Dollar back in 2009/2010.

With the possible exception that, if my suspicion is correct, they might care juuuust enough to keep forcing people to use their proprietary apps so they can both get unpaid product testing out of it and fight for every last cent they can get at the same time. Since they're probably counting on people buying new games / add-ons directly through their stupid app (rather than through, for example, Steam).

[Dr_Georgie]

@Mardoin69 Thank you, but this did not work for me.

[adz929]

EA, take this BS and shove it soooooo far up your self righteous backsides that it can no longer see the light of day, I've just uninstalled anything and everything EA on my PC, enjoy your dwindling scathole.

[Sp1r1tSag3]

Hmmm, anyone else not able to open up Origin at all now? Or is it just me? Had it closed for a couple of days and now it wont open no matter what I do.