Re: Allow us to fully close program on "X" out

Thank you for the work around. ...and yes, it would be nice to have the option in settings, so we can choose whether to have it minimize or close upon "X"ing out, so that it is automatic and simpler.

I also would like to be able to close the launcher by clicking the "X" button 🙂. I normally shouldn't have to look up how to close it yet here I am...

it's been almost a year and this still isn't a feature? 

"this still isn't a feature?"

took the words right out of my mouth.

Please! If you guys need feedback to add the option, here it is! Obviously you already can do it via the exit button, just add in an option to make it default. Stuff like this is why I use steam or GOG whenever I can.

I too feel this too be a huge issue with the EA app. There is already a minimize button. If I wanted to minimize it and keep the application runnin, I would select the minimize button. The E(X)IT button should exit and close the program entirely...

I was forced to download the EA app so I could access your games on Xbox game pass. I am deeply unhappy with the fact that this app is clearly so unfinished that it is missing the very first feature I look for on any launcher. I have so many questions but the main one is when is this going to be fixed? @EA_Jason 

Workarounds should be unnecessary. The behaviour described is shady at best.

However, this has annoyed me enough to work on a workaround (really not as clean as I would like, but should be functional).

1. Right click desktop and select "New", "Text Document" (name it something like EA Launch).

2. Open the new file on the desktop (double click it, or right click and "open").

3. Copy the text between the dotted lines below into the file and save the file (click "File" at the top of the window, then "Save As...").

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@echo off

echo Launching EA app
"C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop\EALauncher.exe"
echo Play your chosen games then come back to this screen and press any key. The service and EA program will end.
timeout 10
pause

echo Stopping service
net stop EABackgroundService
echo Service stopped

timeout 5

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* Please note that the script between the lines assumes you have installed to the default location. If you changed the install location please remember to change "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop\EALauncher.exe" to the location for your "EALauncher.exe". *

4. In the save dialog window that opens, go to the bottom and change the drop down option for "Save as type:" to "All Files".

Add ".bat" (without the quotes to your file name. If you called your file "EA Launch" then change it it the name field so it looks like "EA Launch.bat"), and then click "Save".

5. When you want to play EA games, double click the file you created. It should launch the application. just play your games, then when you want to stop using EA, return to the black window and press any key. this will stop the service and the EA app will stop.

Hope this is helpful to someone. 🙂

Yes the X button is supposed to CLOSE applications. If I wanted it minimized, I would minimize it. You effectively have 2 minimize buttons. 

That is not helpful and ignores the complaint being made. 

Everyone feels the same. I don't want your stupid app playing in the background taking up CPU usage. If I press the damn x button, I want it to close the app like it's supposed to. If I wanted to minimize it, there's a minimized button that's what it's there for! Why have a button to minimize it into my taskbar or an x button that minimizes it to my tray? That's dumb AF, fix it!

I agree with everyone about X out of program not closing EA app.

Here is the problem i ran into. I have 2 computers home desktop and a laptop. I played game on desktop computer and exited the game to check email. But I forgot close EA app before shuting down the desktop. Then I couldn't play a game on the laptop, because the EA app would abort saying I was still logged in on another computer. But the desktop was shut down. To fix this problem, I had to return home and startup the desktop to close the EA app before I could play a game on the laptop. 

THis is a whole lot of stupid BS, because of the EA app no closing as should have. When is EA going to get there act together.

Are you trying to spy on users? How come there is no option to close the app using X button, as for approaching middle of 2023 this is unacceptable.

to put it on par with the level of annoyance these type of things are creating:
still does not work!
to clarify, the complete list of programs allowed to stay on (and run services) after clicking x:
- antivirus

(cm edit - removed caps)

How has there been no update to this every other game launcher has this functionality.

EA needs to respond to this thread.

Thank you, you're advice really helped.

Yeah, and I can turn off my monitor by unplugging it from the wall but that doesn't mean you should remove the power button.

Has a year and a half of watching this thread taught EA anything? Obviously, we all feel the same.

In 1995 the 'Close' button was added to the Windows operating system. It joined the already existing 'Minimise' and 'Maximise' buttons and believe it or not, these buttons are supposed to have unique functions.

While I am aware that EA is an extraordinarily incompetent company in many ways, making the 'Close' button minimise the launcher (and thus making it harder for users to close your software) when for 3 decades even the most simplistic people and programs have had no difficulty understanding and using the button as intended, is extremely difficult to see as anything but malicious.

Everybody already hates this launcher for a variety of great reasons, but it's especially infuriating when EA deliberately makes it worse for the user.

Every other application I've used that has been prickish enough to make 'X' minimise instead of close (by default) has always had an option allowing users to change it. If EA won't outright fix the problem, then for God's sake put in a setting that lets people choose. When in doubt, toggles are the answer to everything.

But of course, this is assuming that EA isn't already completely aware of what they're doing, and it seems beyond a reasonable doubt that they are aware and simply continue to do it anyway.

Absolutely crazy to see that EA still hasn't fixed this problem. This is the basic functionality of Windows programmes and should have never been an issue.