Community ManagerThanks for the feedback, all. 🙂
At the moment, the only thing you can change during the installation process of the EA app is the default install location of games, which is mentioned by following the Advanced installation process. At the moment you cannot change the install directory of the EA app itself.
Is there any necessity for the app to be in C:\Program Files\EA Games only? or it is a bug? or work in process / beta?
At the moment or forever? EA is famous for doing whatever they want like killing a perfectly working Launcher like Origin and doing one that can't even display all your owned games.
Please just tell me if this is how the Launcher is gonna behave from now on so I can forget about EA games.
Well its made wrong then and needs to be fixed. Its broken and unusable this way.
so why does the ea app give the option to install to another location if it then refuses to install to that location and install into the default location in c:\, makes no sense to not be able to install to any location of my choice
Oh EA! Never change!
2 and a half years later and you still haven't sorted this out. No wonder I haven't bought anything from you guys in years.
As the rep has stated the only thing you can change in the launcher is where the games are installed to, NOT the freakin' launcher itself.
If you want to change the location for the launcher, download the exe (in my case I use Sandboxie so have to move it out of the sandbox to another folder like Downloads).
Hold down SHIFT and right-click on the folder and choose 'Open Powershell window here'.
In Powershell paste the line:
.\EAappInstaller.exe /i DefaultInstallFolder="D:\Program Files\Electronic Arts" (changing location to whatever you wish)(credit to a reddit post).
This will then start the executable and install the launcher to the desired location.
One f'ing line, EA. One line!
Do you have a solution? We need to be able to install EA Desktop wherever we want to.
will this ever be fixed. There is NO NEED to install it on C, and C only.
I do not want any programs on C, but a lot of bad software engineers only allow their apps on C. Why is that? To bad at coding?
Please fix this, I am, as you can literlly see for 19(!!!) pages and over a year, not the only one concercing about his.
There are other gamedistributionplatforms, so i am using them. But hope dies last. I am watching this thread from time to time, if EA has fixed this bug.
