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?
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?
EA SPORTS FC™ TeamAre you certain that you aren't looking in your My Document folder @dave360boxxx?
You should have a .exe or Application file for BF4 in order to launch it. You can find it by checking the folder where you installed BF4.
