Shutdown the EA App and go back to Origin
Shutdown the EA App and go back to Origin. The EA app is useless, doesn't work and is causing you to hemorrhage users because its locked us out of playing our paid for games. Filing support ticket...
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This thing should've never existed in the first place, why is it so damn slow and not working?? This launcher is getting me so mad, one whole holiday gone, because this thing just doesnt work!
@Babuna_LagunaWhy is it slow and not working? Let me tell you how the landscape of software development looks like right now (I work as a sw dev myself so I know).
1. MBA types are managing the development projects and all they care about is to release an MVP (i.e. a minimum viable product) so they can collect their bonuses.
2. Because such releases make users unhappy, companies bleed money and then cannot afford good developers so they start leaving in droves and they start hiring juniors or outsourcing to cheap workforce in 3rd world countries who can barely understand English.
3. Those juniors or contractors in turn not only have no clue about proper software design (they ask ChatGPT to write code for them now), but also don't have common sense or any ethics (and even if they did they aren't allowed to say "no" when asked to do something in a certain way).
4. Instead of writing a fucntional specification and then sticking to it when implementing a product, what goes into the product is now decided in endless hours of management meetings where each of them wants things done their way leading to a state of flux where nobody knows what features the final product should have, much less how exactly they should work.
5. Instead of implementing base product and then spending some time to polish it based on user feedback, already incompetent developers are forced to keep adding new features requested by the even more incompetent management because adding features means growth and endless growth is the only thing that satisfies shareholders.
This won't get better until software engineering starts being regulated like other forms of engineering (say mechanical, electrical, or civil) -- as long as everyone and their grandma can say "I am a developer" without passing a serious test of both skill and ethics to obtain a license and then facing civil or criminal liability for accepting to perform shoddy or outright malicious work the code quality all around will keep getting worse.
