Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:54:53 +0000 From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) Subject: Re: EA Origin App to End Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action References: <8sssojpbkoelnua7vp51hlajkfcpf9ov24@4ax.com> User-Agent: tin/2.6.4-20241224 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/6.12.6-200.fc41.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:54:53 +0000 Lines: 48 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.180.143.226 X-Trace: sv3-r7RrKJNqZPuH56dTR/8tN4tBpqQ7cxPfOMFsyQ2/pDoRq+6y6yl/GXQYRK5aqbTd1jjbR6tPoLJ6uul!gwdMGfD/SYbALujVhFnSQ0LuvYshGNIc3cUJ20aCqZb8WjKacur9lqCBvfNxiYbQOpUubWfoxmrp!ZRJNJybXtOJCOCXELWvHu1c/Fem3wxnx X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3484 Spalls Hurgenson 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? -- "You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die." --Romans 5:6-7. I have a dream that the future is going to be worse on Earf. :( Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org. / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )