Are we seriously never going to be able to play our games offline? I paid money to play MY video games wherever I want and not wherever EA tells me to play. Make an offline mode where I don't first need an internet connection to turn it on. It's a basic feature and should not need years to be implemented, get this fixed!
Stop scamming us and take care of your paying customers!
Community ManagerTo set EA app to offline mode @AutonomicGuitar you need to be online as in order for it to work it needs to first verify a number of things in the background.
Darko
Absolutely ridiculous that they haven't addressed this, the whole point of OFFLINE is that you are offline. I live in a remote area and the internet is unreliable. Plenty of other apps do not require you to go online in order to go offline - Origin didn't, Steam doesn't - surely it is a no brainer!!! EA is absurd for requiring online, especially since more than half the time the EA app is so glitchy, in the past fortnight it has required restarting several times to even acknowledge my account when I'm online - it manages to upload all the adverts and my profile just not my library. It feels so much like an app in Beta.
ok so why does it have to verify every time? all you're doing is angering your customers how who paid money for these games! look you don't seem to care about this stupid app we don't either. if you gave us origin back no need to update it if you're too lazy it will just work better than this. you can just sit back and do nothing like you always do and let the money pile in and the customers will be happy. for real where are your "origins" ea got lucky and bought the right stock in toothpaste or something..... your opening theme in games you're involved in should be like, "ea games fund everything".
Community ManagerHey all, even Steam requires that you be online when setting your Steam client to offline mode.
Darko
I Dunno if it's because I have beta Steam but I am not forced to go online when I manually disconnect my internet connection. I think it might depend on the publisher of the game, on whether a internet connection is required or not, to go into the offline mode. Besides EA I only have some SQUARE ENIX titles that require this always on forced internet connection to play games that are single player no internet abilities.
No it does not. Instead it offers offline mode if determining that there's no internet connection.
Without the need to be online first.
(I'm not talking about when you first install and set up Steam, which ofc does require internet connectivity).
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You clearly get paid too much... Or not enough, I can't decide which direction...
Steam does not require internet to launch. At this time, all EA game players need to stop using the EA app. If it's available in Steam, get it there, if not, don't play it; simple as that. Power to the players!
