There is a lot of good advice on here, and EA Comm Managers have been as helpful as they can.
Now, at the risk of annoying the EA Managers, I am going to re-state one thing that I have posted countless times,
for different games.
Guys, MANY problems can be solved by sticking to ONE launcher - the one that owns the games licence rights.
I adopted this policy close to three years ago. Typical example. Find a game I want on Steam. Then notice that it
is an EA game and/or states EA app required.
I log out of Steam, open EA app and purchase dircectly from there. Not only those two. GOG or EPIC whatever, please try
to stick to ONE platform.
Honestly, since doing this PC gaming has been a pretty seemless enjoyable experience. I don't get game errors anymore, and on the rare occasion I do, it turns out to be either my fault or a know bug with the game. But both of these things (luckily?) haven't happened for over two years now. Happy gamer here!!
Nothing is perfect and problems will alway happen. But they can me hugely reduced by simplfying the launch process. One launcher - for one game. Period.
By using two different launchers, just to get to the game it adds a multitude of on-for-seen potential, and very real errors. None of these platforms are particularly fond of each other,
and certainly were not designed to work with other competitors platforms. I feel it was just kind of slapped on, and none of these companies have any special reason to make their platform work well with a competitors platform. And why would they?
All sorts of crazy stuff can happen. Quite literally, from firewall, to failed logons, looping launcher code, "you need to purchase this game to play," plus about 55834 other issues - give or take. And several billion undocumented potential errors. Yes I am being sarcastic with those numbers, but seriously so much can go wrong.
It's happened to me, or rather it did.
No problem using a load of launchers. Sadly using two (or even just having two open at the same time) for one game throws uncountable spanners in the works.
Using only one (usually the publishers) launcher with any one game, lowers blood pressure, and improves "quality of life," according to several double blind placebo control mass studies; preliminary results have shown. Of course these studies take years, but already one famous cardiologist, who also happens to be an avid gamer, stated on the condidtion of anonymity that using multiple launchers for single games appears to have similar detrimental health effects as "a moderate smoker, who doesn't game, and/or uses only one launcher per game."
He refused to answer further questions, and stressed the studies are on going. However this cutting edge research has already shown clear correlations.
It may well all turn out to be much a do about nothing, these studies take decades, but in the meantime it's probably a good idea to avoid the stresses of multiple launchers running at the same time.
EA Staff (Retired)
