How do I bypass the EA App and access Origin to play games.

In a nutshell, many of us are now just sat waiting for EA to reverse the problem they have caused.

Everyone affected had a perfectly workable system to run existing PAID FOR CONTENT, then along game a forced EA App upgrade, that has completely locked us out.

I just get the Origin Login Screen, then up pops the mandatory EA App upgrade pop up, and I can go no further.

Tried letting it install the EA App, and it always fails, with some annoying message saying do I wish to inform the Droids!

I cannot get past that, as all Origin Menus are disabled whilst the EA App upgrade pop up dominates the screen.

As mentioned, they did this several weeks ago, I did nothing other than the above, and then one day, they pulled the EA App upgrade, and Origin Login worked again, as it had before.

Things then worked fine as they had done via Origin, and all seemed well.

Then the EA App upgrade came back, and here we are, locked out AGAIN!

I am reluctant to change anything, as nothing on my system is broken.

I know from last time that the issue is with EA, and not local to my equipment, so there is nothing to be gained by breaking anything just to try and get around a broken EA App upgrade.

My advice is to hassle EA without mercy, and get the message out to anyone who will listen, including updating any Buyer Feedback Ratings if you have left any, to caution new potential buyers to tread carefully and, if possible, establish if this problem of EA's own making, has been resolved, before parting with any hard earned cash.

This is all plain crazy, and quite insulting from a Customer perspective. The issue that has broken access to PAID FOR CONTENT, is not the CONTENT but some daft App that EA is trying to push onto existing Customers who are simply not interested in it, because it does zero for what they already have, and have paid to have.

I'm unable to play Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order now because of the EA app. The game ran perfectly well on Origin yesterday (13/02/2023) but today, it won't open and I get an error message on the EA desktop app. I don't mind the change, but I do have an issue where I'm not able to play video games. 

With this forced change i can't use anymore mods in my FIFA23 (i JUST PLAY OFFLINE), i read that if you put a command in the manage game options you can use them, but in manage game i don't have the "Advanced launch options",  I just have the "buy another version" option.

Can i go back to origin or my game will instal the * ea app again?

how big is your library

@TrueMatrix 

I only have 5 games in mine (so hardly a 'typical' user with many missing games in the EA APP) and whatever it is in my case, they do show.

You could try restarting origin.

I assume the popup showed before for you?

you could try undoing the api block and letting origin load the games entries to your cache before blocking it and launching origin again after quiting.

if your origin says something has gone wrong or is blank. Then your origin may be offline.

if you're trying to block the api, it should only be api1 subsite blocked.

but if you unblock it and don't run the origin web helper service and the popup doesn't show, then it would be the web helper bringing the popup.

NOTE: Either way, the popup has a delayed response and you could actually click to your game libary before it stops you doing anything else. So I still believe that it's being deliver from an address somewhere through either the origin service or client itself.

@speedracer523 

Is this right? im on 10.5.116 and still getting popup.

Guys, I found a fix for me anyway, it was actually through the EA APP but not launching with EA launcher, but EA Desktop instead as admin.

You should open the EA APP as admin from EA Desktop NOT EA Launcher for me this is the path "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop\EADesktop.exe" Note that if you opened from the shortcut (unless you created a shortcut for the above path), it will launch from this path "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop\EALauncher.exe" which will not work (at least for me).