EA App is an awful replacement for Origin
I originally opted in to the EA App when it was first announced, I quickly replaced it with Origin as it wasn't particularly easy to use, was buggy and frankly a downgrade. I assumed by the time EA d...
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So, here I am, evening two with the EA App. I tend to binge games over a period of days (sometimes weeks) until I get bored and move to another one. This time, it's Dead Space 3. Why 3? Curious I guess, never played past the prologue before. (And given I came across a progress blocking bug last night before calling it a night and going to bed I dont think this run will last much longer, but I digress.)
Opened the EA App, need to login. Why? I ticked the 'remember me' box. Dead Space 3 won't launch. Not from Steam, not from the EA App. Steam button turns blue, EA App minimises to system tray, mystery EA App window appears and disappears, EA app emerges from system tray, Steam button goes back to green 'Play'. Nothing else, no error message, nothing helpful.
20 minutes of troubleshooting -
Verify integrity of game files
Disabled Steam overlay for game (just in case it wasn't compatible with EA App)
Then realised EA App had an overlay, went to disable that, but guess what, you can't per game, it's either on or off. Well, it's off now, along with other crap like allowing background services to run and I won't be switching it back on. Well, until another game randomly decides it wont load and I have to do all of this again.
Rubbish, and yet another game that I'll be posting a Steam 'thumbs down', not because of the game itself (so far I'm not quite getting the hate DS3 seems to get compared to the other two) but because of the poorly thought out baggage bundled with it.
