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Konsulistan
5 years ago
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Origin does not exit when pressing "X"

It is expected behaviour for the Program to fully close when you press the X button. Otherwise i could just use the minimize button. There should at least be an option for this. Until this is fixed...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    5 years ago

    @Konsulistan  To fully close Origin, open the Origin dropdown menu (in the upper left corner) and select Exit.  Steam is the same, by the way: if you X it out, it's still running; you have to open the dropdown menu and choose to exit it instead.  Other game launchers may work the same as well, but I'd have to check.

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Critofur
4 years ago

@EA_Leeuw 

Well, I too "would also please ask you to stay on topic".

Explaining to us ad nauseum how to close Origin is off topic and offensive - our issue is specifically regarding the app not behaving the way we want it to on our PCs.

We want to be able to have it exit when we press X, we are not asking for some other method to close it.

We don't want it to minimize when we press X unless we are asked if that behavior is acceptable first.

While I understand that the developers may want the app to keep running in the background, it's not appropriate to override the PC owner's preference without asking them if it's OK first.  It is particularly not OK to do so w/out giving them an option to turn off that unwanted behavior.

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EA_Leeuw
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4 years ago

@Critofur, unfortunately, this thread is going off-topic quite fast it seems.

As we mentioned earlier, there is currently no such option to fully close Origin by pressing on the X button, but we appreciate your feedback and it has been passed on to the teams.

To avoid the thread from escalating further, I will now lock this thread.

Thank you again for the feedback and enjoy the rest of your day.

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