Re: R.I.P. Origin

AMEN!

That was the last straw for me too. I have used every possible workaround to keep Origin alive. The two main games I played on Origin (Dragon Age Inquisition, and Mass Effect 3) will not be playable with friends anymore. 

*Strong words warning for the section below*

Since the (cr)App does not support invites or joining of games through the friends list, connecting to people abroad will not be possible anymore. People that I have spent the last 6 years with, built a great community with, and most of all, played for SEVERAL THOUSANDS OF HOURS WITH. It will not work anymore, because the incompetent development team of the (cr)App outright refuses to listen to their own community of gamers who time and again has been complaining loudly about the OBVIOUS PROBLEMS with the (cr)App.

How f...ing HARD IS IT TO IMPLEMENT THE FEATURES THAT ORIGIN HAD. FEATURES THAT WORKED PERFECTLY FOR PC USERS... THE EA APP IS THE BIGGEST MIDDLE FINGER TO ANY GAMING COMMUNITY IN THE 50+ YEARS OF GAMING HISTORY!!!

Either you give PC players Origin back, or we will be forced to boycott your company until a solution is presented! - A fix for the broken, buggy, unfinished, DRM-ridden, resource-hog of a failure. 

I am FURIOUS right now.

Either way.. I am done wasting money on ignorance!

Sincerely: Olav Skar (THE_Crazy_Hyena).

I fully agree with you.

I won't be installing the EA App ever, no matter how many times they tell me to. And i intend to make good on that word.

I'm just here to lest you know the now 10-page forum Re: Pop-up in Origin about EA app which can't be closed has been recently locked by @EA_Shepard for being "off topic". To quote:

@EA_Shepard wrote

    As this thread is a bit old at this point, and getting off topic, we are going to lock this down so that we can prevent any necro-posting.

Not only were the complaints GENUINE they still feel the need to ignore our complaints and not do anything about the EA App despite being 10 pages worth.

@XenithXenaku 

We can complain until our faces turn blue if we want. They won't accept that the EA App has failed in its current state! - *I am a little angry still, but I am way more mellow today than last Monday.*

Come on.. How hard is it to build a new client using the framework from Origin, and keep the working features intact? I don't care if we are eventually needed to use EA App, but please, for the love of God, finish that damn thing before pushing it onto end-users.

A list of issues that needs to be ironed out below:

1. DLC downloads that doesn't fail. This one is important!- EA App has major issues with DLC downloads, especially for older games.

2. Join/invite option by right clicking on a friend in your friends list -Every other game client has this feature! - Steam, Ubisoft, Epic, Battle.net, you name it. Even Origin! - Not all games has a built-in friends management system. - Also important!

3. Overlay not working in all games.My testing is a bit limited, but the classic Mass Effect Trilogy, the Dragon Age series and a few other older titles does not allow the EA App's overlay, as these games asks for the Origin overlay. - Not that big of a deal if the friends list gets fixed first.

4. Games not showing up in the library, despite being installed. - This is a big issue for people that either canceled or lost their EA Play subscription, us who had trial versions of games installed, or people in general not finding their Origin library in the App. - Highly important.

5. Download speeds are inconsistent. - There has been many complaints regarding slower download speeds in the EA App compared to Origin. Note: I have not tested this myself, but from recent memory, I remember getting up to 116-117 MB/s through Origin (I have a 1 gigabit connection). - Somewhat important.

6. App crashes frequently. - There has been many reports of the App crashing quite often. Unclear what the cause might be, but it does crash a lot. - Also important!

All the more reason for me to not install it.

They expect me (who's been an Origin user for YEARS, as in, ever since it was first introduced) to suddenly accept a new app that has been FORCED on me and with no way to opt out of it?! Yeah remember this?

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 EA forced this on you:

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HA! In your dreams EA, i will NOT install something that has been FORCED on me and with no way to opt out of it!

Mark my words!

ORIGIN IS NOT DEAD!

Search well on the net, you will see that the solution is found. I don't post the link because EA, then, does everything to ruin this solution too.

Long live ORIGIN! 🤔

DEATH to EA APP ! 😛

@STG_Mordin 

Well, then we who play Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition are * out of luck, as the overlay does not work in those titles, and likely never will. Very scummy way of forcing more ads down our throats.

This basic functionality should not be omitted by any circumstance, whether it is for marketing reasons or otherwise. It just shows that EA is incapable of making a good gaming client.

@RacingGunCleanerFor me overlay has been working in Origin and even EA App works for me to launch the games. The problem is that it is slow and bloated and that under GDPR law in EU isn't even legal to collect data and track you without acquiring informed consent of the user BEFOREHAND.

EA App just collects telemetry and tracks you without even asking and allowing opt-out. It's just plain illegal.

his a million times over. With all the complaints on this EA app being so problematic I don't know why they insist on forcing it right now. They need to work on it another year or two.