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Re: How do I bypass the EA App and access Origin to play games.

My Origin games won't start ! I cant find them on website and your garbage EA app not starting !! 

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  • Mardoin69's avatar
    Mardoin69
    New Vanguard
    2 years ago
    @tom_looken You are freaky awesome!!!! Thank you so much for finding this workaround.....finally I can play my modded games again.

  • @Mardoin69 wrote:
    @tom_lookenYou are freaky awesome!!!! Thank you so much for finding this workaround.....finally I can play my modded games again.

    Your welcome i had to spread the word it turns out that twitter user is head of titan fall revival swell.

    To ea that link is bad only ea users should view it.

  • PedzGG's avatar
    PedzGG
    2 years ago


    @tom_looken wrote:

    Going to leave this here no context but those that what the headline view it

    https://twitter.com/p0358/status/1626811868412010497


    Im trying to launch fifa 23 but been unable to since the forced merge. Done that tweet thing and it works, however when launching fifa i now get please start the game rom Origin or the EA APP which sucks. Good walkaround though. Still more progress than EA Team xD

  • LDWH's avatar
    LDWH
    2 years ago

    I tried the work around and it gave me back access to my games. So far.. 

    Now I just have to launch the games and make sure they all run and play.

    I will post an update once I have completed testing my library so folks can 

    know for sure which what when where helps or not.

    Thanks again and I am glad to help where and when I can.

    LDWH

  • @PedzGGHave you tried to have both origin and ea app installed signed in to your account?

    Fire up ea app when it all logged in happy close it then go to origin fire up fifa via that?.

    I currently have this workaround on with ea app & origin installed and my sims 4 loads up via origin without the get ea app or we kill you message.

    I do not own fifia if it will work the same.

    Now having ea app removed totally i have noticed some game be like bro were is ea backgroundservice?

    By close i mean via the eaapp taskbar icon.

  • PedzGG's avatar
    PedzGG
    2 years ago

    @tom_looken wrote:

    @PedzGGHave you tried to have both origin and ea app installed signed in to your account?

    Fire up ea app when it all logged in happy close it then go to origin fire up fifa via that?.

    I currently have this workaround on with ea app & origin installed and my sims 4 loads up via origin without the get ea app or we kill you message.

    I do not own fifia if it will work the same.

    Now having ea app removed totally i have noticed some game be like bro were is ea backgroundservice?

    By close i mean via the eaapp taskbar icon.



    I have, still doesn’t seem to want to launch unfortunately. 

    im hoping they sort out whatever issue it is as I haven’t been able to play since the 8th feb which is ridiculously long for a issue which stops people playing games they paid for

  • legendshonor's avatar
    legendshonor
    Rising Scout
    2 years ago
    @tom_looken There is no "local.xml" on my system following your path and how do you add a key in notepad?? << not a tech.

    Thx
  • tom_looken's avatar
    tom_looken
    2 years ago

    Image attached for those needing help

    Just cope paste the text were i put it.

  • LilChris74's avatar
    LilChris74
    2 years ago

    @tom_lookenThank you that actually works. I was so confused as where to put that line and you showing where it should go totally worked out. Again Thank you.

  • tom_looken's avatar
    tom_looken
    2 years ago
    @LilChris74 Your welcome happy gaming.

    And yes when you got origin all fixed steam uses origin again by itself. Been playing dragon age inquestion i hit play on steam it loads up origin everything sync's and works. So peaceful before the fix eaapp would crash dragon age ☹️.
  • brook853's avatar
    brook853
    2 years ago

    This doesn't work for me. I don't have a MAC. Please give us PC folk something to work with.

  • @brook853 These instructions do work for Windows. Every Windows OS since Windows 1.1 has had Notepad on it. It is a core windows program.

    Go to your start menu and then type "notepad" to bring it up. Drag the XML into Notepad and then edit it. However, you will need to give yourself permission to this folder and if you don't know how to do that I'm far too lazy to explain that. Especially since Windows changes how that works with each version.

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