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5 years ago
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EA account not connecting to my Xbox account. Tried many things; none worked.

Alright. So a couple days ago when I went to try and play EA Play games through Game Pass, I got this:

"Something went wrong... To continue linking your EA Account, head back and start over."

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I read somewhere that you could link your EA account by going through the EA Desktop App doing the "Import Friends" which gave me this: 

"Looks like your Xbox account is already connected to another EA Account. Unlink accounts or try linking a different Xbox account."

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Some people said that clearing the cache of the Desktop App would fix this. It did not.

After that, I tried going through https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/account/link-your-console-accounts/ and linking my account by logging in with my Xbox account which gave me this:

"Your EA credentials have expired and need to be updated. Please reset your password."

I've reset my password many times now I'm all out of password ideas.

Lastly, I contacted EA support to find out if my Xbox account was actually connected to an EA account and they told me that it was not. Anybody figure this mess out?

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  • Hi there, @JayVille74.

    This message can happen when you already have an Xbox gamertag linked to it. I can see there is one already linked so I'm not sure why support told you there wasn't. Unless you gave them a different account than the one you're posting with. You can try contacting an advisor again and give them the gamertag you're trying to play on. They'll be able to look up the account it's linked to.To contact an advisor, please try messaging @EAHelp through Twitter or open a case with a live support advisor here: https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/new/. You can also go to facebook.com/eahelphub to get in touch with support. They'll look into this for you. Thanks!

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  • @EA_Aljo Im having the same problem, it says my xbox account is already connected to another EA account. i've had the same account for years. I've deleted all connections to my xbox account to where there is not even EA connected and still getting the same already connected error.
  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    @onelove0715 

    This is something you'll need to contact an advisor for assistance with. Instructions for that can be found here.

  • I’m having the same issue and it taken 2 days just to even figure out what’s going on.  kinda makes it hard to give a 2 star game on Xbox a chance when I have to jump through hoops to play it.

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
    Icon for DICE Team rankDICE Team
    3 years ago
    This is on the older side of time, I'm closing this thread to stop it from being necroed.

    If you have any issues with EA app, please make a new topic about your problems and what kind of steps you have tried to solve them.

    /Atic

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