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Re: None of the EA Play games work for my son (8yo) using Game Pass for PC

Sorry for any confusion here. There are a number of legal restrictions on child accounts that affect online features and membership. Child accounts cannot be used for EA Play I'm afraid.

Please feel free to check out the link here for more details on the below info, thanks!

Child accounts can't:

access online modes on PC or Mac in certain games
make purchases - children can’t be EA Play members or use EA Gift cards
log in to our websites
- Child accounts can still use EA Help to create a case if they have an email address (a parent has the option to use the email address they used to validate a child account).
use companion web apps for games, or use mobile companion apps that need players to log in with an EA Account
connect their games to social media or link their accounts to Steam.

1 Reply

AMajic
1 year ago
Thank you for confirming so I can stop trying to make it work for my son!
I feel this is more like an technical implementation / integration issue between Game Pass <> EA Play / App rather than legal issue. For sure 8yo can play games like FC24 / Fifa no problem but I totally understand it might be difficult to make the account linking, management etc. difficult across different vendors; considering parental controls etc. However, I hope this issue would be addressed sometime in the future for the next generation of cross platform gamers!
PS. My son is playing Fifa on Nintendo Switch so he's cool. Would be just nice to play it also on his brand new PC (among other great EA titles).