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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 03:04:03 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> >https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=280144
> >
> >I haven't used mine for years! I should go see if it still works. :P

> To be fair, Origin itself has been pretty much dead for years. EA move
> over to EA App (or whatever its called) years ago; Origin is legacy
> ware and, honestly, I'm surprised it was still being supported.

> If you had any games on EA Origin, your games are automatically
> transferred. It's not like EA is abandoning its storefront/launcher
> entirely. It's just retiring an older version.

>                              *

> On a only tangentially-related note: you know one major flaw with EA,
> UPlay, Epic, and all these other launchers? The one thing that just
> shoves in your face that they're made for the benefit of the
> publishers, and not the user? They all launch into the STOREFRONT and
> not the gamer's library, and there's no way to change it. 

>     [Yes, GOG and Steam do this by default too... but they also 
>      let you go into settings and make it so it launches to the
>      library screen]

> Epic, EA, etc: you want people to take your launcher seriously, to see
> it as anything more than an inconvenient portal that they have to pass
> through to play their games? Make it so you can launch the app and get
> directly to our games. 

Yeah, annoying. EA should dump its own service and move them to Steam 
like Bethesda did. ;) So I tried my old Origin and it said "Please use 
EA App to continue". Heh. Since I haven't used it forever, I just 
uninstalled it and regained 355 MB. I will install bloated EA app when 
needed. I hope it's never since I read bad things about it to make 
Origin look good. :O

Do any of you use EA app?
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