"We got to work building a next-generation PC gaming platform — and we designed it from the ground up with your feedback in mind."
-EA Desktop Roadmap | Trello
@SorokaYago wrote:"We got to work building a next-generation PC gaming platform — and we designed it from the ground up with your feedback in mind."
-EA Desktop Roadmap | Trello
Seriously, I can't think of this sentence in any other way than corporate gibberish. I doubt the feedback was "yeah EA please implement limit-monthly-spending and limit-playtime functionalities, I'm such a game addict I need your platform to control this" lmao.
The fact that they thought of these as priorities and didn't even put achievements on the roadmap to this day says a lot about their idea of "next-generation PC gaming platform". Achievements have been the industry's standard for a long time already. I can't imagine a modern gaming platform not having them.
Here I wrote a more elaborate comment on this matter and other issues: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Feedback/Achievements/m-p/11155915/highlight/true#M906
EA's games will always have achievements because consoles de facto require them. And, apparently, EA favors consoles over PC. So not moving the system that already exists on Origin to EA app is just laziness imo. I can't believe they are able to make such an error by design.
The thing is however, on consoles all the platform features (including but not limited to achievements) are outsourced to XBL/PSN but on PC all this must be maintained domestically. Maybe it really doesn't calculate in excel or maybe EA's vision is just different from the standard defined by consoles since the third? generation (which is just incomprehensible for a simple gamer such as me). Maybe.
For now, this stops me from switching to the new app.
The current situation is: no achievements in EA app and no plan to introduce them (vide roadmap), Origin Points (this cool gamerscore-like solution) confirmed to be discontinued in the new app and no actual answer from EA on this matter. Doesn't look very optimistic for the next generation of PC gaming. At this point I'm surprised they even bothered to make a new app instead of fully switching to Steam lol.
