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MassKiller16's avatar
3 years ago

Neither the EA App nor my games launch offline

Product: The EA app
Platform:PC
Error Report ID (learn how to create an Error Report ID in the sticky post) N/A, since it never gives an error code
Which client functionality are you experiencing this bug with? Launch Game
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) Ever since the forced migration from Origin to the EA App
Summarize your bug In short, as the subject implies, I am unable to play my games or even launch the EA App if I'm doing so offline. Which, frankly, is ridiculous. For a launcher touted as "the next generation", it should at base be able to do everything the launcher it replaced could do. I do not always have access to Internet, which renders half of my game drive impotent since none of the EA games work without internet, *despite all the ones I have being able to be played completely offline if I wanted, which I do but can't*
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? By not having internet when trying to launch EA App or playing games
What happens when the bug occurs? Not being able to play my games
What do you expect to see? To be able to play my games

I just want to be able to play my games offline if they can be

5 Replies

  • Big stinky EA app could probably cause a lawsuit if you had a crafty enough lawyer...

  • Much as I would love to take them to court over this, I don't have the capacity to hire a lawyer good enough to take on a corporation like EA

  • It's a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place. The hell were they thinking when they implemented this crap? I hope they do get taken to court over this or something. There's been a massive amount in complaints over it, they should have fixed this by now but haven't. "Use origin for offline play" Kinda can't if your bs program forces us out of that option. I re-install origin, ea uninstalls, then a message on origin pops up that cannot be removed or ignored, forcing you to re-install EA play and uninstall origin. Ticks me off that they keep suggesting to use it when its not possible and they've been told so.

  • Citysim9997's avatar
    Citysim9997
    3 years ago

    It doesn't surprise me one little bit, I haven't tried offline as wouldn't expect it would. Since it forced me to upgrade from Origin, I had connection errors, refusing to launch, Blank pages,  Game library missing, and it as strange language of it's own "Downloading Stuff" "Something when Wrong.", etc, there are no detailed error messages, and Help and Support is no existence. Besides i'm getting tired of TS4 anyway, and I suppose it doing me favors by locking me out most of time.

  • 35466789's avatar
    35466789
    3 years ago
    @Gosheharushi Ohh boy they gave me a cool shiny badge for the ea app launch though. Glad they implemented that nifty little feature. Lol... non performance or breach of contract could be argued, they'd probably just say the employees statements on here don't represent the company, or claim issues w bugs or whatever though

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