Re: Is there a way to force the EA app open in offline mode?
That wouldn't really happen because as bad as EA can be when it come to its actions towards its customers, ever since it moved out from being within the development field and, instead, primarily focus on publishing strategies, it been running on a relatively constant flow of cash.
Unlike CDPR or Larian, EA. itself, is not dibbling much in the actual development of their product, but instead pays sub-contracting company into doing it 99.90% of the time and that allows it to mitigate the risks when it comes to development cost.
To give you an example, if CDPR or Larian are in-between 2 projects, they still got to pay their devs employees regardless of whatever is produced. If those cut off some HR, they might regrets it later when they might need said HR back hence a development company, in the video game industry, is like a company that is constantly bleeding money and gets an infusion whenever they release something.
EA has been mostly cut off from that part of the industry as while it's paying active companies who are working on current project for them, it don't have to bleed any money in down time because whoever is hired is not hired by EA, but by the sub-contracted company. Once a project is done, as per the established contract, EA can cut ties with the company until a new contract is established. Many times, when an spoke person from EA mention a "teams", it's actually a team composed of a few managers that communicate with a sub-contracting company.
That's also the reason why EA seems so disconnected and slow in updating its own stuff as, often, it doesn't actually do it itself. Even adding 1 thing to its App might required it to push out some contract proposition, wait for a positive reply from companies, select the best option and then have that selected company work on the app which can then involves months of works for that company to understand how another worked on the app prior. That's without considering the potential issues that may come up when 2 different companies has to work together on 2 features on the same app at the same time.
