To anyone reading this as of October 10th, 2023: THIS PROBLEM IS NOT SOLVED
Hey @bleearghh a few months back I was in this thread trying to work out how to play this game on a user account. The previous solution I had was to download the origin app and force it to stall the update prompt. As of now, the origin app seems to be officially retired and will not work anymore. I'm wondering if you have made any progress or if you have found any way to download the game to work on a user account. The only helpful information I have to add is that I caved and backed up my computer and got a fresh install of windows 11 and installed the "gen patcher" that supposedly fixes the game by repairing broken registry entries. Perhaps I installed the program wrong but even that did not fix the issues I have with running the game on a user profile. I can't believe you're still trying to help people in this thread bleearghh. Mad respect man.
I truly cannot believe how unprofessional EA is with this whole debacle. Unfortunately, this is not the only game that is having this issue and they are essentially robbing thousands of customers of their purchases. On top of that, for the games that do work, I have learned that the new EA app does not have an offline mode and you must be online to play any game. This is unacceptable and regret giving EA every cent. Wish I pirated the game at this point. I've paid for it twice now, wouldn't be stealing a thing.
If any EA employee is reading this, I beg of you to help bring this to the attention of someone and unmark this thread solved because it is NOT solved. I will not pay another cent on any game published from you guys until this is fixed.
