Will EA Desktop have settings as in post
i dont want an app that i am forced to switch to because origin is being killed off, unless:
1) it has setting to prevent it always running in background at windows start. i want to run origin when i want to run an origin game and i dont even like webhelper using resources. this thing must only run when i want to play what used to be an origin game and is now in this new thing.
2) additionally, when i close it, i want it to CLOSE not just secretly minimise to the sys tray and pretend to be closed. because generally im on another platform running a non EA game and dont want this thing wasting resources and downloading an update when im in the middle of gaming, just because it doesnt know im gaming because im not using a game run from it. i am disturbed by the recent trend for steam and other clients to not close the application when you click the close window thing top right. yes i know its called 'close window' not 'exit' but why would i want to close just the window and in reality just minimise it? i wouldnt would i? its no good without a window to run a game from, for me, so i want the options to have a 'exit app on click close window x ' setting. because otherwise i will just have to use the menu and exit selection, which it must definitely have.
the only reason i have two of these clients running when i run a game is like with Fallen Order, where i bought on steam so i could review it, even though nobody reads my reviews, and have the discussions which origin does not have forums. i also run assassins creed games from steam which need uplay open. otherwise i only want one storefront 'app' open at once.
3) it doesnt try to force me to use the windows store app. i dont like 'app' rubbish anyway. if i have to have this, i want a download from a proper site like with origin, not any of this phone app rubbish. i dont want to open windows store app at all since it wants to download a million updates for apps i cant uninstall but never use.
4) i still want a wishlist
5) still want to be able to organise the games into faves etc. and pick size of the game icon on the screen. i hated the epic launcher because visually its a nightmare, a mass of clashing colours and huge pictures seemingly placed by a mad clown. now i understand this is because of apple and its iphones and since smart phone users can no longer read because they have been trained to work by pictures and swiping with pudgy fingers on the screen - but i own a pc, not a phone. i game on this gaming laptop, and i want a nice looking view of my games, not a massive scrolling list of clashing colours, like epic was, and steam was nearly as bad, though thankfully they have removed the soul-less grey behind their mandatory icons update. i trust you wont make that mistake, since i dont see any preview screenshots of the UI. for a while i could barely use steam after that update (not just the clashing colours on grey, it was also how it had severe memory leak adding 500kb of ram used each game page you looked at, thanks to chromium).
those are the important ones spring to mind. after the steam update, origin actually looked good by comparison despite its lack of steam's groups and discussions. i just pray you havent gone down the 'idiots only like pictures' route epic seemed to.
