Why does the EA app not have a Gift option?

Boo.

I second the motion!! Gifting packs and kits are the ideal gifts for my daughter. Her birthday is coming up. I wanted to get her the Basement and Greenhouse Kits for Mother's day. 

Please fix and enable gifting through your "EA app" or at least allow us to gift through Origin. Currently the EA app is just blocking the access to Origin... Let's be fair until you,  EA can get the Gifting feature going.

Please! Obviously this is a popular feature. 

This just doesn't make sense not to have it available. 

the amount of people wishing the gifting option back is so big... yet all we get told all the time is "thanks for giving the feedback"... 


Either give us the option to gift via EA App OR stop forcing us to download the EA App when opening Origin...

@EA_Leeuw 
My dear friend had more or less stopped playingTS4 but, after months, is finally feeling the urge to start simming again.

In celebration, I offered to gift them an expansion pack and offered to gift them one of the two latest expansion packs.

After that, they spent around a week considering which one they wanted by watching videos and reading articles.

Imagine my utter horror when I discovered earlier today that we cannot gift packs via the EA App.

And now I must also disappoint my friend by informing them that their anticipated pack won't be in their Library today.

It's beyond embarrassing!

I don't understand why the EA App fails to support such a popular feature!  Please bring it back!  Please!!!

@makoto99 

I think I found a workaround to the EA App's lack of functionality regarding gifting.

In order to give the Growing Together pack as a gift to my friend, I went to Amazon where I bought the expansion pack as a "PC Online Gaming Code."

After purchase, I checked the email from Amazon which contained the product code.
Next, I messaged the product code to my friend who can now launch the EA then go "Library" then "Redeem Code" to download the pack into their library.

If I don't report back, it means that my friend was able to receive their gift (that is, redeem their product code) without a problem.

It would be so much easier if the EA App supported gifting, though. 

Six months later, and EA still hasn't addressed this. There is simply no way to gift somebody a specific Sims pack on PC. How has this still not been fixed? Doesn't EA want our money?

Hey @SecondSkratch,

Right now, the EA app doesn't have a way to send gifts. But, we've heard your suggestions about adding this and have passed them on.

Just because the app doesn't have this feature yet doesn't mean it's broken, it just means there's room to make it better. The steps to fix something and add new things are different.

We really appreciate your feedback.

Edit: rewritten post to better explain reasoning.

"If something is not broken, it does not need to be fixed." this can only come from someone who does not use the launcher, to begin with.

So many features that we loved in Origin have been axed from this new EA Play advertisement billboard wannabe launcher, it's actually hilarious.

This can't be broken because we killed it💀

I used to buy games here instead of other platforms due to how good of an experience it was, but now you can't even send a gift to a friend. Jeepers

Now it's just used to start the game from a different platform.

origin was so much better 😂

Right, it's "working as intended" because they don't want EA Play people gifting their discounted games to people anymore.  What a bunch of nonsense.