Why does the EA app display "Games have been removed from your library"?

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Why does the EA app display "Games have been removed from your library"?

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Community Manager

Hey everyone,

 

Thank you all for expressing your concerns about the "Games have been removed from your library" notification in the EA app (see below).

 

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We want to assure you that this feature is often* functioning as intended. Its recent implementation aims to reduce the number of inquiries about missing games or DLCs and provide clarity on why such items have been removed from your library. By clicking on the "VIEW DETAILS" button on the right side of the message, you can see a list of all the games that have been removed and the respective reasons for their removal.

 

*It's important to understand that this scenario can also be triggered by a valid, temporary issue. When or if this happens, we will confirm this in the thread. Please see the 'Resolved TEMPORARY Outages Resulting in the Same Error' section below for further details.

 

These reasons may include, but are not limited to:

  • Expiration of an EA Play membership,
  • Sunset of games due to discontinued online services,
  • Removal of games due to fraudulent activities,
  • And more.

Often, the message providing the reason for removal includes a link to an EA Help article explaining the rationale behind it.

 

For sunset games, please see our EA Help article about older EA games that aren't available.

 

For games removed from EA Play, please see The Play List Removals.

 

If you encounter the message "Unlisted reason" when viewing the details, it could be due to various factors, such as:

  • The game no longer being available in EA Play,
  • Sunset of the game,
  • Payment issues,
  • Problems with your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (XGPU) x EA Play connection (if you use this),
  • Voluntary removal by the account holder or parent,
  • Billing issues,
  • Or self-removal of the game from the account when it was previously claimed via EA Play (a feature previously available in Origin for PC but not in the EA app).

We hope this information clears up any confusion you may have.

 

If you're still unsure why certain items were removed from your account, please don't hesitate to contact our Support team via EA Help by following https://help.ea.com/help/faq/using-ea-help. They'll help explain why those items got removed or tackle any other problems you're dealing with.

 

Take care and game on!

 


 

Resolved TEMPORARY Outages Resulting in the Same Error

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Re: EA app says that a game has been removed from my library

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RESOLVED Outage May 22nd, 2024. "Games have been removed from your library" Message in EA app

 


 

Hi all,

 

We are seeing RECOVERY of the temporary problem which started on May 22nd at 8 am UTC, which was unintentionally impacting some users, causing them to see the message *"Games have been removed from your library" or *"You don't have access" error on the EA app more frequently than expected.

 

https://x.com/EAHelp/status/1793255707808268465

 

Recent reports in this forum thread seem to confirm this trend. Thank you for reporting this to us!

 

If you continue to experience the issue, please perform an EA app App Recovery (clear cache) by following the steps here, or reboot the client or machine.

 

Thank you.

 

Previous accepted res.

 


 

*It's important to understand that both scenarios can also be triggered by valid, non-temporary reasons. For further details on these, please refer to the following links:

  • For the message "Games have been removed from your library" in the EA app, click here.
  • For the error "You don't have access" in the EA app, click here.
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EA app says that a game has been removed from my library

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★★★ Newbie

One of my Games has been Removed from my list, the App says my EA play membership has Ended. 
i never had EA play and the game was Bought and Gifted to me, How do I Fix this Problem?

 

CM edit: edited title for clarity.

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Re: Game Has Been Removed

Community Manager

@BaneHidari 

 

First, try just clearing the cache as follows: 

 

https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/

 

If after that, assistance is still required, contact our Advisors directly:

Click the following link to get started:

https://help.ea.com/help/faq/using-ea-help/

Thanks.

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Games have been removed from your library

★★★ Apprentice

So, I fired up my EA App this afternoon, and was greeted with this message at the top of my library.

 

Which for obvious reasons, concerns me.

 

I did a browse of my library, and I can't find any title that is missing, and all my DLCs seem to be in place as well. And when I click on "View Details" about the removed game, it comes up empty. This a bug in the app or something?

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EA has randomly removed a game DLC from library!

★★★★ Novice

Why has EA randomly removed this DLC from my library?!!!

How can I get it back?!!!!

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Re: Game Has Been Removed

★★ Novice

This is ridiculous. Every app start I got these messages and missing games at the library, so now we have to clean this up every time?
Even funnier the removed game list contains games I never had.

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Re: Games have been removed from your library

★★ Novice
@MidnightL0st Check the box again, I had the exact same issue and the details were blank yesterday. Today for some reason it's been fixed. Turns out it was my Battlefield 2042 copy from Steam that I refunded.
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Re: EA has randomly removed a game DLC from library!

Community Manager
Hey @LoptsEldr,

It looks like this has happened about seven years ago. Have you tried starting up Spore and seeing if the parts are still there? I vaguely remember something about this parts pack needing to be replaced with a new copy of itself on some accounts, so you might still actually have it.

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Message 7 of 1,324 (70,767 Views)

Re: Games have been removed from your library

★★★ Apprentice

Yeah, after clearing my cache it appeared again, and turns out it was the soundtrack DLC for Crysis 3. I assume EA lost the music license for it or something.

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Re: EA app says that a game has been removed from my library

★★★★ Novice

Hello, today i got same but message, but it says that quest_item as been deleted from my library what is quest_item?

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