Responding again just to see if I can bump the topic back into someone's feed. The only solutions I've seen that aren't listed above are:
A: cross your fingers and see if it fixes itself
or B: disregard the EA app and use Origin
The latter seems to have been by far the most viable option of being able to actually play the game I payed tangible money for up until a handful of weeks ago when the method of using Origin was patched. The only solution to easily the most egregious issue I've ever seen in one of these parasitic little dinky pseudo-launchers (you cannot play the game you paid money for) was patched in a nice and timely manner whereas this problem has been showing since day 1 and has not been fixed.
If you're not going to do anything about the problem, at least let me go back to Origin.
