Any option at all to rollback to the Origin client? I launch all my games via desktop shortcut and as a result I don't want your new client popping up every time I try to launch something. No options for this in any settings I am aware of either. When I want to play something I want to launch the game and get into it immediately. I don't want to click down your application every single time. I just want to play Battlefield. For being "more lightweight" it sure is far more noticeable than I want it to be.
I am also concerned about this problem!
Why won't they let me start the game until I install what they want? To promote their launcher, they use blocking the launch of games.
p.s. If you still have the origin installer file, you can install it. But the program will be updated and will not allow you to run games.
I'd like to add that after trying to play the game again today, launching the client took almost 30 full seconds as opposed to five. Only to have forgotten my login despite me ticking the "remember me" box. Now every time I try to log in, the client closes itself. Relaunching it brings me back to the login screen. I'd hardly call what is effectively a ban a "better experience" compared to just being able to play the games I've bought. Please either fix this ASAP or properly mark EA App as an optional beta program and let us roll back to Origin which actually just works.
Yet another addition. EA app appears to run a background program when your computer starts now. Naturally I manually close this, because what business does it have on my computer when I am not using its services or playing a game? I make my third attempt to play Battlefield 4. I get what is on the attached image. I click OK. A CMD window tells me EA App is already updated and that I will close. Trying to launch it again repeats the process. Overall, I still don't think EA App has been much of an upgrade.
Someone ended up contacting EA Help and they gave them a link to the Origin Legacy or so they say.
Problem is....I can get the older version of Origin client but, even if you uncheck all the boxes for options like automatic updates, it still updates the client while installing it. And, even if you disconnect from internet, it'll still update the client when you have to log into your Origin account.....because you have to do that for the first run of the Origin client or it won't launch. Once it's launched, you can go into 'Offline mode' but, by then it's too late cuz the client downloads that stupid update that locks the client up. There's no way around it that I can find.
I just noticed "EA Background Service" that is not even visible to msconfig or Task Manager Startup.
WTH, EA? Trojan Virus, much?
Strike 2, EA.....
this update is * sucks. paid money to play games that i cant even get onto my account for, wtf were they thinking????????
