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quickdrw
10 months ago
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EA App for MAC won't even Launch

Origin forced a switch to EA App but clearly EA hasn't bothered to make sure the App works before rolling it out. The EA App won't launch when clicked. The Icon just bounces three times and nothing ...
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    EA_Leeuw
    10 months ago
    @quickdrw wrote:

    ...The community manager in other related topics seems to hide their ineptitude by pointing to fixes that don't work or asking for data on the computer...

    You probably mean me. 😉 Hi, hello!

    Sounds like you're running into an unfortunate issue alright.

    When you try to start the app and it doesn't want to open, do you still see an EA process in the Activity Monitor? If so, could you:

    • Try to quit that process or anything related to EA,
    • Reboot your machine,
    • Open your Terminal on your Mac and type *snip*, press enter, and follow the on-screen steps,
    • See if the client launches without issues.

    Thanks.

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quickdrw
10 months ago
@EA_Leeuw Okay, yep sorry, that was uncalled for, you're ept and probably good looking to boot.

The terminal work-around did the Job so well done but the fact you have to use terminal at all for the EA app is crazy cringe.
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EA_Leeuw
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10 months ago

@quickdrw, All good. 😉 About the Terminal commands: It's also not something I really like having to suggest using, but it unfortunately sounded like it was needed in this case. (I'll also remove it from my post now just in case.) Still, I'm glad it helped.

For the rest: I'll be closing this thread as OPs issue has been resolved. If you're experiencing the "The app crashed unexpectedly" or "Background Services Crashed" on the EA app for Mac, please go here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/Mac-EA-app-quot-The-app-crashed-unexpectedly-quot-or-quot/m-p/13725926#M657.

Thanks.

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