Why am I getting forced to install EA App?

Why why why why why are you forcing us to use an EA app. Why can't we use both? It is seriously unstable. I have several EA games - for example three of them are Alice: Madness Returns, Sims 3, and Sims 4. I have EA Play on my Steam account. Sims 4 will play from Steam and EA including all packs and my custom content. Alice plays through Steam amd EA. (I have not tried any of the 12 other games I have through Origin.)

Now we come to Sims 3. It only shows up on EA app - not Steam. In the app it says I only own the base game and maybe one other expansion. If I run it from the EA App, I get the launcher info which says I own ALL the expansions/packs. BUT, the game won't start. I have tried the DX 9 install, no luck (I have Win11, i7-12700KF, NVidia 3080). So, I moved my old store-bought downloads out and into another folder and cleaned out the cache, downloads, worlds folders (my store bought worlds were missing anyway). I repaired the game through the EA app - still nothing.

So then I come across something about downloading Origin again. After doing so, it is FORCING me to upgrade to the useless EA app. We were told that the Origin app would still be available. We were told that you would patch the EA App so that Sims 3 would work - nothing works. I buy very few games through EA (12 in 20 years versus 250+ in Steam) because other than a few gems, they really are not that great. And the ones that are good are the old ones. 

I want what you promised from the beginning - Origin continuing to work.

They won't allow people to use both for a couple of reasons. One being you can set Origin to go straight to your library. They want you to see their store first in the hopes that something catches your eye and they make a sale.

Second is likely that reenabling access to Origin wouldn't look good to their bosses or their investors. They only care about their customers wallets and they couldn't give a damn if some people lose access to games.

Same Issue, I even tried to install from the installer on their website instead of the popup in origin and it gives me the same error while trying to install, so I can't even update which means I can't play any of my EA games anymore, which also means I won't be buying anymore EA games.

So this has been like this for month's? and they still haven't done anything to fix it... Damn that's bad. Well I guess f*** EA then. I'm out, there are better games to play elsewhere.

Yes, this nightmare EA App issue has indeed been going on for Months.

At no stage did they state that EA Games were time limited, which is effectively what they have now done.

I can no longer get access at all, despite wasting huge amounts of time trying to find a legal workaround.

The EA App now pops up every time I launch, cannot login, none of the Origin screen menus work, and the EA App fails to install every time.

I have also tried downloading it and installing that way, which doesn't work either.

Timely reminder that any Game that requires a login, is bad news, or will be bad news at some stage.

I could not be more unimpressed with EA.

@RohirrimKing92 They don't have to restore the libraries because they already have those people's money.

It's sad to say but a few people losing access to their games and not buying in the future is a drop in the ocean of cash they get from the countless Ultimate Team sales.

Monetarily this doesn't matter to EA. All that will do anything is if they start to get bad press. People don't just need to post here, they need to start getting the attention of the gaming press because bad PR is something EA will pay attention to.

Money that was already spent, years ago, now they will have no return business. The whole 'drop in the ocean' thing is illogical, it means losing money when they don't have to, for an app that doesn't work. 

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@MayPanDay wrote:

On this Thread there is a solution:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Origin-Client-Web-Technical/How-do-I-bypass-the-EA-App-and-access-Origin-to-play-games/td-p/12121303/jump-to/first-unread-message

To summarise, you firstly need to go to File Manager, and under the View option, tick the box that allows you to see Hidden Files.

Then go to your C:\ Drive, and then you will see the following Folder:

C:\ProgramData\

In that you'll see an Origin Folder, open that.

C:\ProgramData\Origin\

In there you will see this File:

local.xml

C:\ProgramData\Origin\local.xml

Save a copy of that, just in case, so you can put it back if needed.

Now open that File with, say, Notepad, and add the following Key just above the last line:

<Setting key="MigrationDisabled" type="1" value="true" />

Save that.

Go to View and un-tick the option to view Hidden Files.

Then when you launch Origin or a Game, the EA App pop up from the Origin Login, should be gone.

Worked for me.

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I had my hopes up for this... Sadly it didn't work, still getting EA app popup.

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@EA_Darko wrote:

Hey all, if seeing issues with games not working and the like then this generally points to a system issue.

What system troubleshooting have you all tried?

Darko 

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Typical pass the blame on other people, everyones PC's were fine running origin app, now everyone has problems with this forced EA app, doesn't seem like a system issue to me, this is a EA app issue... I've tried everything to get your app to install is it even compatible with Windows 11? all my other apps and games work fine just EA app is broken.

What EA app troubleshooting has EA tried to fix their app?