Why am I getting forced to install EA App?

[virtualbalboa_gg]

Can anybody else confirm this isn't just a virus?

[cloudjustice]

i cant save it in the file it keep telling me to get the EA app 

[dinthe11]

I have to go mess around in files just so I can see updates and Play the sims 4?

[dinthe11]

Also, after following your instructions, I get origin saying

"Well, that didn't go as planned

Origin encountered an issue loading this page. Please try reloading it – if that doesn’t work, restart the client or try again later."

[Whee381]

@MayPanDay There's nothing in the Origin folder. Can I get some help with this?

[FieryDove]

Years, not months. It's terrible. I won't be buying anything EA anymore even a Bioware game. Sorry this is just too much not being able to play the games I paid for so many years now.

[NovaDragonScale]

TLDR; EA has begun shutting down servers and Origin simply no longer functions, whether you apply any fixes or not. I'm sorry  

Hello friends and fellow sufferers. I have terrible news for everyone here, much to my own misery. As of today, 19 June 2023, it appears that EA has shut down a portion of Origin's online servers. After hours of trying to figure out why the common fix worked yesterday and now does not, I finally found a YouTube tutorial where the creator pinned a comment today with this information. Seems they are officially swinging the hatchet on many players' last hope for their games--at least until further notice.

If you would like to read the comment or watch the video (another explanation of a fix which you've probably tried at this point) then I provide you with the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xf3-dphNe8

And if you don't feel comfortable following a link, then you can search the following on YouTube directly: "Stickmanweasel How to bypass the EA app migration message in origin"

I hope this is, at the very least, helpful to some people when it comes to not wasting time with dead end searches. I fear what the result of this new sabotage is for players that don't have the option to try to use the new platform whatsoever. Good luck comrades, and please for the love of holy chickens--don't shoot the messenger!

[HotFoot23]

Not true. They haven't purged the servers on Mac. Whether they like it or not, until they purge the the servers on Mac, there is ALWAYS a work around. 

Just gonna leave this here.  https://www.reddit.com/r/origin/comments/14du4wp/welp/

[voteDC]

@HotFoot23 Unfortunately that doesn't work, for me at least. Origin now loads but my games library is empty.

I can still use the system tray icon to launch recent games but I could do that back when the Please Use EA App message was displayed.

[howteam]

That worked great!!

Thank you for sharing.

I can now play my favorite game using the right click on tray icon.

No need to install that EA app that act's like a virus.