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aurorum999's avatar
aurorum999
5 years ago

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

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 foll...
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CarbonCarl's avatar
CarbonCarl
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago

Hey @aurorum999 

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.

dunny1g's avatar
dunny1g
Seasoned Vanguard
5 years ago
@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.
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    CarbonCarl
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago
    @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.
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      aurorum999
      5 years ago

      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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        CarbonCarl
        Hero (Retired)
        5 years ago
        @aurorum999 That's because most game publishers don't have a client, EA, blizzard, bethesda, ubisoft and microsoft owned games all require either a client log in or just an account log in.

        And yes I would too.

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