Update: upgraded from 13.437.0.5950 to 13.443.0.5956, but to no avail. Tried launching one of my EA games but as before, nothing happens -- though behind the scenes I verified that it is once again Link2EA.exe crashing without launching any alert.
This is starting to feel cringe to be honest. Starting to consider asking for a refund of all my EA games.
I see many posts on this forum with people clueless as to why their games do not launch. Most of them probably haven't looked into their Windows Error Reporting (WER) dumps either. Is it really this the way it is supposed to work? I literally paid money for assets (not even a service) that I cannot make use of.
What a shame.