why do i have to buy a subscription to ea play to play origin through steam?

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yeah, i just was so excited about this ea play thing on steam, until i read the details in the forum since the ea play official webpage is so unnecessarily vague.

correct me if wrong about the following -

• you have to purchase a subscription to ea play in steam to play a game you might have alreeady bought outright through origin?

• we STILL have to use origin, but get the PRIVILEGE of launching origin THROUGH steam lol ??

if what i'm gathering is correct, there is still literally no reason to subscribe to ea play through steam since -

• you still have to use orgiin

• you have to pay a subscription to play titles already purchased on origin to play them on origin through steam

i mean, whoever is in charge of marketing or whatever must think i'm insanely high or something. hello! what is the purpose????

carboncarl · Answer

Hey&nbsp;@aurorum999&nbsp;Unfortunately that's how it's always been, most if not all EA games on Steam open up the Origin client, the same applies to Uplay for Ubisoft games. I am not a fan of this myself which is why I only buy my EA games direct through Origin. But I don't know if using the Origin client through Steam is Valves idea or EA's.As for the subscription itself, you have to buy a separate subscription for Origin and Steam as they are both different platforms the same as Xbox and Playstation.Hope that helps friend.

carboncarl · Answer

@dunny1g After reading up a bit you're actually correct, but because Valve doesn't own any of those games, Valve/Steam is actually the third party client/storefront in this which is why EA games open up the Origin client.

dunny1g · Answer

@CarbonCarl It wouldn't be Valve's idea. Valve are smart. They definitely don't like that launching a game on their platform opens a competitor's launcher.

aurorum999 · Answer

@CarbonCarli understand. im just saying,

• if nothing has changed,
• and this new additonal extention of ea play has been added to steam,
• where we literally gain nothing except to pay to use origin through steam
• while not having access to our titles without said subscription unless we use origin WITHOUT steam

then what is the actual purpose that would motivate any level headed consumer to purchase this subscription unless they were entirely new to the existence of ea and origin titles (like someone that has never bought an ea game).

for the rest of us this is absolutely useless and i still have long lists of games i haven't even played yet that i've bought on steam (bought as in i own, where no subscription or trial was needed.. i just bought them)

i also have games on ea i haven't played yet, but as i do very strict custom firewall rules, i can't ever get origin to connect like any other game or program that i use (steam). so, that's why my games are sitting there, im not playing them until im no longer using or buying from steam, and i wont be buying in the future. that's also why i was excited, and now really let down, when i heard about ea play on steam.

aurorum999 · Answer

valve doesn't "own" many other games that it hosts, and a great portion of them don't have to open up a launcher.. they just launch the <insert explicitive here> game

i'd be more willing to buy a steam hosted ea play subscription if the ea titles actually did that

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