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holger1405
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3 years ago

Re: EA Launcher doesn´t install in choosen directory

@Aelther 

True, I misunderstood you there.

But the fact that the EA app now no longer allows a custom path for installation is most probably not a bug but by design, (For reasons unknown to me.) so a offline installer would have been modified as well. 

@Aelther wrote

Now, since you did go on about how the time of being able to simply install a game and play has passed, I will say that i disagree completely and I'm sure than you know it's untrue. There is nothing "modern" about launchers, nor anything "legacy" about simple installers. It's everything to do with DRM.

Where did I stated that it was a "modern" thing? 

I said "Problem is that this ship has sailed a long time ago." and that it has.

Of course it is about DRM.
I buy games I love on GOG again, even if already have them on Steam, EA or at other companies, because I want them without DRM.
But most developers will not go without DRM measurers, at lest not on new AAA games, and it is not the developers who are to blame, but people that pirate games.

This is as far OT as it gets here, so this is the last thing I will say about this topic.
Have a nice day. 🙂

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    Aelther
    3 years ago
    @holger1405 wrote:

    @Aelther 

    the fact that the EA app now no longer allows a custom path for installation is most probably not a bug but by design, (For reasons unknown to me.) so a offline installer would have been modified as well. 

    "Offline installer would have been modified as well" Yes, but we'd be able to grab an older version if we wanted to. With online installers, it's always the latest one.

    If I had to guess, I'd say it's a lot more likely that they were too lazy to fix the bug, so they opted to simply rename the text.

    If it is a design decision after all, then it's an utterly stupid one. Why on earth would anyone remove the most basic of features that has existed in Windows for decades? Did Apple buy EA when I wasn't looking? That company always thinks they know better than anyone.

    I have the EA app on my older PC installed to a custom path and it still works and updates. No update has moved it to the C Drive, so it's not like it requires to sit in Program Files. It really must be this misguided pursuit for simplicity that actually ends up complicating everything in reality.

    I will NOT let this go.

    In the mean time, I will try to see how portable the EA app is and copy it from my old PC to the new one to a custom path. It may lack the registry entries for uninstallation, but whatever. I will place the .lnk shortcuts in my Start Menu myself. Thanks for the "Simplicity", EA.

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