I went ahead and installed the EA app since it was forced on me today, I noticed this was going to happen with the prompts from Origin. I tried the beta EA app and uninstalled it within a day. It was not intuitive at all (when you’re used to a particular layout and they move everything) and missing some basic settings found in Origin, like app behavior settings.
after installing the app, I tried to open a game I play regularly, Apex Legends, and instantly it prompted me to choose between using an older local save or cancel the launch because “we couldn’t connect to the cloud save data.” What? Origin syncs up first thing at game launch. EA app does not for some reason. EA app is definitely not finished and lacking basic features.. why is this a mandatory install?
I had to reinstall origin to play Apex without worrying if my save data was going to be broken if I reverted to an older local save. This is something that really shouldn’t have been an issue from a forced app replacement. Especially something like game save syncing..
work around: install EA app and then reinstall Origin while keeping EA app installed as well, just don’t use it, use origin.
I was forced to download the EA app which uninstalled Origin. I tried turning off the EA app and then re-downloading and installing origin, but when it opened, it just gave me that same stupid popup about installing the EA app that I can't click out of. It's not letting me use Origin at all, even with the EA app installed and not in use.
Same ☹️ i tried installing both but it won't let me open origin
