Command & Conquer Ultimate Collection
I have The C&C Ultimate Collection and play Red Alert with Counterstrike and Aftermath virtually every day. It has worked ok since I first paid and installed it. For the last few days, when I start ...
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The cold hard truth: I went through all the same things as you, and realized that the EA Desktop App's "Legacy Origin" implementation is broken, or unfinished I mean. So I actually reinstalled Origin using the full offline installer, and then reactivated every game in my library. I have had no problems since then.
Side Note: On EA Desktop, the bonus content is missing from the library, unlike in Origin. The EA App also doesn't ask which country / locale to store user data, and it's missing a lot of other features that Origin has. I ended up switching mine to Sweden and everything worked fine! On Origin it is built into the installer, but on the EA App it doesn't give you any warning about this. There are also programs called ActivationUI, Touchup, Cleanup, etc, which work differently on EA Desktop. IMHO, EA rushed the development of EA desktop. I talked to a lot of support staff already, and got to the bottom of it, though I had to use an open source tool that allowed me to run Origin without popups telling me to install the EA Desktop App, though I ACTUALLY have both installed. EA thinks that EA Desktop actually works with all legacy titles. I also had to enable a setting that doesn't appear on EA Desktop, that allows me to run titles that were not fully tested for compatibility. It doesn't transfer game license information correctly, and the support staff won't tell you this, but EVERYONE has the same problem. One person from EA Help tried to say that my account was banned, and another one asked me if I had a Playstation?!?! Crossplay is also disabled, so I think that was just an act of desperation from people who didn't have clear information on what was wrong. Some of the tiles do not show up correctly if you have more than one edition of a particular title, and it tries to say that I live in the UK ( doesn't make any sense. ) I'm sure this happens to a lot of people when you use App Recovery, so I ended up just switching everything back to what it was. It just doesn't fetch the account information and update the tiles accordingly. On Origin I had zero hassle, everything works, even the latest stuff. I think when Origin is discontinued, I will archive my installs, and then restore them if there is a problem.
