@holger1405 wrote:
@Aelther
I would love to go back to a time where you could install a game and play it just like that, without a additional software needed.
Problem is that this ship has sailed a long time ago.
I also think that EA app is not remotely ready to be the main client for EA games and that they should have stuck with Origin at least until EA app has functional equality to Origin.
But Origin was not more of an "offline" installer than EA app is.
I think you may have misunderstood what I was trying to say. I was not referring to clientless games, I was referring to the setup of the launcher (EA app) itself. There are generally two types of installers. One that contains the files it is trying to install (aka you can install them offline) and an online installer (very small in size, because it downloads the files it is about to install). For example you can download Chrome via an online installer which is very small in size and will then download and install the latest version, but if you dig deep enough, you can also download an "offline" installer of Chrome that will contain the browser itself. These are usually intended for enterprise deployment and usually come in msi format.
That is what I was asking for. If, as you say, an earlier version of the installer did have a working path selector, then I would like to have that, so it could be installed and then update post-install. Usually companies that offer offline installers keep several older versions available for download. Right now we only have a choice of the latest build, with all of its bugs.
Origin was indeed, far superior to the new EA app and it also clearly distinguished between origin native copies and steam copies. Now everything is smushed into one and I'm not sure which is which and if they started overriding keys again, the way they did when they first returned to Steam.
Now, since you did go on about how the time of being able to simply install a game and play has passed, I will say that i disagree completely and I'm sure than you know it's untrue. There is nothing "modern" about launchers, nor anything "legacy" about simple installers. It's everything to do with DRM. There are DRM-Free stores, one of them is even quite popular, where you CAN just download a game and play. A launcher is either optional or not available at all, depending on said store. EA even sells some of their older games on one of those DRM-Free stores, but, again, there is nothing stopping modern games from being launched there and many consumer-friendly publishers do. It's just that EA thinks that DRM is somehow stopping certain illegal activities, which it obviously does not. It only makes the paying customers jump through hoops and pointless online authenticators. Too bad that they can't even get the basics, such as installing their DRM/Launcher to a custom path, right.
