Hi everyone,
With the latest update we added the functionality where you can create a desktop shortcut when installing a game.
What do you think?
@DrearyDreamzYou can be right in that there isn't an option to add a shortcut while installing a game through the EA Desktop app. I'm not in position to say either way, but it could be by design. Perhaps the thought was that you would be using the app to launch the games anyway, so there is no need to add a functionality of creating launch shortcuts for the games to desktop and/or Start menu.
I guess you should voice your opinion on this in the Feedback forum so that it might be considered a feature to be added.
In the meantime, you can do a bit of work yourself and use file explorer to navigate to the install location of the game, and manually create the shortcut to the game executable.
yeah ok what about us people who own Stream decks and just want to push a button to open a game, when a program or game is installed it should automatically install a desktop shortcut. reguardless of what the software creator thinks. its being installed on my pc i want desktop icons
EA SPORTS FC™ TeamHi everyone,
With the latest update we added the functionality where you can create a desktop shortcut when installing a game.
What do you think?
Hi, Jason!
That's great for a new-install game.
But it fails to allow us to create new shortcuts for games we already have installed, and don't want to uninstall-and-then-reinstall.
Most of your competitors have a "create desktop shortcut to game" in the "tools" feature of that game's listing. Steam, GOG Galaxy, Bethesda.net, Battlenet, Epic, you name it. You guys are the "outlier" in this regard, in not having a similar feature in the game's "settings and options" menu in "Origin." This is a significant oversight, and really isn't a great thing. It should be TRIVIAL to implement this feature into your service UI, honestly.
That said... it's pretty easy to make one manually if you know what you're doing. The desktop shortcuts the installer automatically creates are simply shortcuts to the game executable (perhaps with a few command-line items in some cases?)
For example... for my Origin installation of "Syberia II," here's the path my shortcut links to: "F:\EA Origin\Games\Syberia II\Syberia2.exe"
Ok, but how do I create a desktop shortcut for a game with no visible executable file within the install folder? Say - Battlefield 4, my folder does not contain any .exe to create a shortcut for. The game still runs through EA Desktop, though. Would I really need to reinstall the game just to create a desktop icon, or is it strange not to have an executable?
Did this for Mass Effect and the shortcut never showed up
Please Add A Pin To Start Option to create a tile once downloaded as you can on the Microsoft Xbox app, I have a handheld device so the tiles help manage and get into the games more easily. Every other Gaming app has a way to do this except EA so here I have screen where all game tiles are displayed big with beautiful cover artwork in tablet mode and then I have these little * ugly desktop shortcut links Ive had to create manually when there should just be an option. Sometime they don’t even work and I have to flip between desktop and tablet just to play strictly EA games. I know I know cry me a river but I don’t give a * it’s a service I’m paying for and EA is a very respectable company with good games please fix this. Thank you for your time.
