Unable to launch Dead Space 2 PC game

I'm really starting to check this for new games, if EA wants to follow the same path. It's very strange, if singlepalyer games are killed by EA. My 1st game is Half-Life and that is very old and that game works today. EA wants to go a completely different path and define the time when the game can be played. I don't live in Russia and I'm not Russian, so that's not enough of a reason to prevent playing EA games.

If this is EA's goal, then I don't want to continue buying EA games enymore, because I know where it ends.

I have been having the same issue with Dead Space 2, since EA platform took over.

I have Dead Space (2008), Dead Space (2023), Dead Space 2 and Dead Space 3. All load except for Dead Space 2, for months now I have been sending error reports (5) to EA. There has been no response to having the game fixed, so players can play all 4 on their platform. The same error notice, that the problem is on their end. Then if they know why are they not addressing the problem. Your game failed to launch. An error on our end caused your launch to fail. Try again a little later.

If anyone out there is having the same problem, do not waste your time, repairing, uninstalling and then reinstalling. Doing all that is useless, because the problem is on their end not ours.

Done all that a number of times.

Hope someone from EA tech support can fix their problem.

Well, I contacted a EA tech online over the Dead Space 2 does not launch. I have attached the transcript and in it is EA does not support this game anymore because it is too old.

I followed the tech advice, and I cannot re-install the game for disc as it will not read it, so now I have lost it. Will now have to wait for the remake, if I am still alive.

I am now finished with EA; will play the games I have until they die as well.

Good luck to everyone try to get this game running, but do not waste your time.

Aman (30/03/2023, 1:30:19 pm): Thank you for contacting EA HELP, my name is Aman, may I start with your first name please?
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:31:35 pm): Peter here, dead space 2 will not launch, problem at EA end try again later. Happening for months, not only to me.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:31:39 pm): Hello, its nice to meet you. How may I help?
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:31:59 pm): As I understand, you are not able to launch your game as it crashes when launched. Is that correct?
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:32:49 pm): Just comes up with message, problem our end, try again later.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:33:22 pm): Thank you for sharing, is there any other message you see when you launch the game?
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:34:25 pm): Your Game Failed to Launch
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:35:04 pm): Thank you for providing the details.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:35:24 pm): I am pulling the details for you, please allow me a moment.
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:35:45 pm): An error at our end caused your launch to fail. Try again a little later.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:36:47 pm): Thank you for sharing the information.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:38:13 pm): I have checked and I see that the online services for this game has been discontinued due to being old.
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:38:49 pm): I have ran repair, un-installed and reinstalled, been on the ea answers site and no one can get the game to launch
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:40:10 pm): So how do we play the game that we purchased, I have been playing Dead Space 2008 and it works
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:40:37 pm): Could you confirm if you are trying to launch the game on Steam?
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:41:28 pm): I am sharing some steps for troubleshooting this issue.
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:41:34 pm): I am try to launch it from the EA site
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:41:40 pm): Please follow the steps.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:42:05 pm): Go to the game folder, right click on dead space2, click properties, than compatibility, select run as administrator and apply. Than change the name of dead space2 to dead space2.exe
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:42:57 pm): Will do
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:43:29 pm): Thank you, if still you face the issue.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:43:39 pm): I would request you to please raise this issue on our public forum by going on to answers.ea.com and our technical team would pick this up and investigate in order to fix the issue in question.
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:44:49 pm): Have you seen how many members of answers ea have been trying to get the problem fixed
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:45:09 pm): Yes, I have checked this information.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:45:35 pm): Please try the steps and I will raise this issue form my end as well.
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:49:04 pm): I am in the folder, but there is no compatibllity to click on
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:49:45 pm): Sorry found it
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:49:47 pm): Could you right click and go into properties?
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:51:21 pm): missing file ssleay32.dll
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:51:48 pm): This is the reason for the launch error.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:53:15 pm): If User32. dll error message appeared during or after you installed a program, a hardware component, or a driver, uninstall the program, the hardware component, or the driver. Then restart Windows, and reinstall the program, the hardware component, or the driver.
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:55:50 pm): So I have to un-install the game, restart windows and download the game agian, is that correct
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:56:24 pm): Yes, before that you need to check the drivers on your PC.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:56:39 pm): For this go to device manager and there select drivers.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:56:53 pm): It will automatically show all the drivers status.
Peter (30/03/2023, 1:57:04 pm): will do
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:57:21 pm): I hope it works for you.
Aman (30/03/2023, 1:57:27 pm): Apart from this, is there anything else that I may assist you with today?
Aman (30/03/2023, 2:01:19 pm): Are we connected?
Peter (30/03/2023, 2:01:50 pm): What am I looking for in device manager
Aman (30/03/2023, 2:02:04 pm): Check for drivers
Peter (30/03/2023, 2:05:32 pm): There is a lot, I do not see drivers,
Peter (30/03/2023, 2:06:06 pm): keyboard, monitors etc
Aman (30/03/2023, 2:06:13 pm): Yes, that si why I requested to uninstall the game and then restart your PC in safe mode.
Aman (30/03/2023, 2:06:22 pm): Then check this.
Peter (30/03/2023, 2:08:11 pm): will un-install and restart now.

Not the fix I was hoping for, but I just purchased a new copy of Dead Space 2 from my Steam account, and it launches and plays great. Through Steam. If you want to experience the game again this appears to be the only solution. I haven't found any blogs or forums where anyone has had any success getting past EA`s fail to launch error on their side issue. Dead Space 3 works via the EA app, and I haven`t tried my old copy of the Original dead space yet. but everyone is reporting that it works. Must be something to do with the redistribution software embedded in our old original copies that cannot be rewritten or bypassed. It's not the best having to purchase it twice. But it's a hell of a great game. In the UK its priced at £17.99. 

As I have listed previously, Dead Space 2 as of today will not launch from the EA platform or the exe. file. I have used my disc which does not work now and tried downloading. Still today I cannot launch the game. I believe EA has taken it off the platform, getting people ready for a new Dead Space 2 version. I am now up to 600 hrs. of playing Dead Space 2023 version on hard.

I would like to continue to 2 and 3, but it's not going to happen. EA have not answered any of the error reports, except the on-line chat I had which is listed. Dead Space 2008, Dead Space 3 work, but not 2, and it has been over a year now and EA will not give answers or fix the game.

I do not even look at any of their games anymore, EA's is losing it's Dead Space customers.

Is your first game working? Because that isn't working either. It's been a month since I've had it on steam and i can't even refund it. They need to get this working

Dead Space (2008) works, Dead Space (2023) works, Dead Space 3 (2013) works, only Dead Space 2 (2011) does not work. As you can see from the dates it is the middle one that will not work. I have downloaded Dead Space 2 a number of times from EA platform and it still does not work. I have given up trying to get it going and EA support is useless in having our game fixed. As stated in my previous tweets, Dead Space 2 has been removed from their servers, so no one can play it. Why have they not removed Dead Space 2008 as they have replaced it with 2023.

Either forget about using or playing EA games or just wait for the future Dead Space 2 to be released, might not be in my life-time.

DO NOT WASTE TIME OR MONEY ON DEAD SPACE 2

My experience with EA support has soured me on EA forever. I will NEVER buy another EA product.

Its a long read but this is my "customer experience" with their support process. Its almost comical if it wasn't so sad.

This isn't a DS2 issue...its all on EA. It ran fine on Origin...I read that it runs fine on Steam but I refuse to pay $20 for a product I purchased years ago and ran fine on Origin before EA bought it.

PS the 7th support person just emailed me with more of the same crap