Re: Why am I getting forced to install EA App?

TLDR; EA has begun shutting down servers and Origin simply no longer functions, whether you apply any fixes or not. I'm sorry ☹️ 

Hello friends and fellow sufferers. I have terrible news for everyone here, much to my own misery. As of today, 19 June 2023, it appears that EA has shut down a portion of Origin's online servers. After hours of trying to figure out why the common fix worked yesterday and now does not, I finally found a YouTube tutorial where the creator pinned a comment today with this information. Seems they are officially swinging the hatchet on many players' last hope for their games--at least until further notice.

If you would like to read the comment or watch the video (another explanation of a fix which you've probably tried at this point) then I provide you with the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xf3-dphNe8

And if you don't feel comfortable following a link, then you can search the following on YouTube directly: "Stickmanweasel How to bypass the EA app migration message in origin"

I hope this is, at the very least, helpful to some people when it comes to not wasting time with dead end searches. I fear what the result of this new sabotage is for players that don't have the option to try to use the new platform whatsoever. Good luck comrades, and please for the love of holy chickens--don't shoot the messenger!