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Re: EA Launcher doesn´t install in choosen directory

Can't change EA APP install location... even tho I select a different drive before installing it, create folder, and everything it keeps installing on C. Solutions????

(i even tried MANUALLY moving the installed files into the other drive but wont work after I try to launch the app it says there's an error)

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  • Wow, here I was on my brand new clean "install" and I thought it would be great to download some of my favourite games like the Sims 4. I download, brilliant there is the button to choose where the program is installed. Like every single. other. program. ever.... Choose the location I want, download. Am a happy camper. But wait, what's this... I happen to open the location I selected to find NOTHING WAS IN IT yet I had the launcher open???? I thought there was no way, but sure enough I found the launcher in my program files. Where I don't want it... Then I considered maybe I made a mistake or it was a weird bug,  on the third attempt now I was utterly sure it was no mistake. I close the thing and just try and cut & paste where I actually want it on MY computer. Can't do it.. It seems they've taken it a step further and have some worm wriggling around when you have the launcher "completely closed" to prevent this. Not only that I am reading some of these replies and it seems even after using terminal it will sneak itself back onto C drive.

    Why does whoever is behind this excuse of a launcher hellbent on making it literally the worst of the launchers that hold some decent games hostage.

    Here is some feedback, I have no choice but to have four other launchers installed on my computer. But I get over it at the end of the day, why? Because I can put their pointless launchers where I want them on MY computer... Despite EA having some hundreds of dollars I've spent behind a shadowy lock and key, they can wait until the developers or suits behind this get some sense.

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