Re: Can you share your game library like in Steam on Origin?

@EA_Alex

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the response.  With that in mind, if EA would like this feature but infrastructure just isn't in place, why not use Steam then?  Steam has this capability already with no new infrastructure build out required.

I understand that even if long term you want to stick with the Origin client, why not allow Steam in the interim giving EA some goodwill until you have the time and resources to properly build out Origin?

Almost the end of 2017 and still no family sharing , the only method is still giving out your login creds to family and friend so they can play on other machines problem is the cloud saving for some games and they dont allow for multiple save games . Please just give us family sharing like what steam has and we will be very happy .

Please add sharing support. It's pretty obnoxious switching between Windows user accounts to close Origin just so my son can play a game on my Origin account. Heck, just allow multiple instances of Origin to run for now. 

This is a much needed feature. EA needs to be more competitive by offer this kinds of features to players.
This isn't anything from another world, steam already doest it and didn't hurt them.

@EA_AlexThank you for the explanation.  I can certainly understand and appreciate the fact that there are prioritization and resourcing issues.  Count me as someone who would like the priority on this ask to be bumped up. 

Frankly, the lack of being able to share games with my family held me back from buying BF2 at launch, and I probably won't buy it until the price lowers enough to increase the value proposition.

I was happy that my boys agreed to share BF1, and split the cost. They watch each other play ... same computer, this isn't a matter of trying to have two copies of the game going simultaneously.

They just want to track their progress separately from each other. I'm amazed that it's impossible.

So they just learned how lousy sharing and cooperation are.

And they learned who EA is.

I don't believe this is such a major undertaking. I'm a software developer. Either implement multiple profiles, or save progress to the local computer and take advantage of multiple Windows accounts. You could give the player the option to backup his progress to his EA account, or not to. But honestly, implementing multiple profiles and still saving it all to the EA account would not be difficult.

This is about revenue, nothing more.

Following up on my note.... I wound up buying a BF2 digital code during Christmas shopping season because Amazon had them on sale for $5.  Instead of getting $60 from me once, directly on Origin, EA got whatever Amazon paid them for the license. 

It not that i dont understand it, but backside in this on steam, parrent has bought games to both brothers, and now they are not friends anymore.

who own the account and each has bought games to same account. 

as i said to one of the brother's you might want to start another account and try solve this by buy games then on sale and figureout to split or share game you bought that other brother did not bought, its a way to get both account equal in missing games on account2

this is a companys nightmare who own what , and resouces spend on it, who will pay for clean up this issue, so Hell NO if you have more kids you still need multigames if they play together on same game. so shareing games dont work like that, and then they are adults. it could be a problem if they cant stand eachother anymore.

not sure this is any game company's problem.  ( problem here, who hijack account first, change PW so other brother cant login, worst nightmare seen from a game companys point of view. )

best solutions is both brothers should have solve this by buy games to other account so they can be splited on 2 accounts.

and this could be the problem down the road with Famely share and argue over it.

I am not sure what EA is doing no kid account for SIMS4 sharing on the kid account so the purchasing happens on the parent account. BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

AND no household sharing even on the same PC and this has stood almost 5 years?

I have and love STEAM

I miss the gold old battlefield 1942/Vietnam days with no micro-transactions or a launcher that forces more spending and less sharing.