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Yohhst
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2 months ago

Battlefront II missing from EA & Epic

Hello all,

after not having played Star Wars Battlefront II for a while, I decided to get back into it. I launched the EA app, and clicked the game icon in my library to launch it. Upon this, the Epic Games app opened, but the game was not in my library there. Nothing else happened. I checked to see if my EA and Epic accounts were still linked, wich they were.

I decided to uninstall both apps and reinstall them. To my surprise, the game was now also missing from my EA app. I went to the EA help website and did see the game still marked with a red 'my game' indicator on the main screen. I reached out to the EA helpdesk where I was repeatedly told the game was marked as an Epic game for them, and that I had to get help from Epic instead. When I contacted them however, they told me they have no record of me owing the game and ask for a receipt. Both email addresses I have do not contain any emails showing a receipt or anything like that. I also do not remember through which channel I bought the game as it was years ago...

I tried to unlink the EA and Epic accounts, and thought maybe when linking them again perhaps the game would reappear somewhere. Unfortunately I cannot link the two accounts anymore, for the simple reason that the linking apparently happens when I would launch the game in the Epic app. But the whole issue was it is missing there.

I contacted EA again, who suggested to post on the forum as they had nothing left to offer. As the forum was down for maintenance for a few days, I am finally here to post. Surprisingly though, the game is now no longer showing on the main screen of my EA help webpage. Luckily I took a screenshot last week when it was still there (see attachment).

Does anyone know what could be going wrong here? I don't know what to do anymore.

But I am kinda surprised how all traces of me having owned and played this game, including online, now suddenly seem missing everywhere. How is that possible???

4 Replies

  • To make any decent headway resolving your issue, you are going to need to figure out where you bought it.

  • Yohhst's avatar
    Yohhst
    New Rookie
    2 months ago

    Thanks for the feedback - I was thinking the same.

    Is it possible I bought it as a hard copy? I am not sure if games like this are still sold that way these days, so it didn't occur to me that maybe this is how I bought it?

    Though it would surprise me as there would be no reason for the game to be both in the EA and the Epic Games apps. Wouldn't it only appear in my Epic Games library if the game was purchased through them?

  • DarthFDG's avatar
    DarthFDG
    Hero+
    2 months ago

    As I understand it, it will always show in EA app, even if you buy in Epic (or Steam, etc.). However, if you buy in Epic, you need to launch from Epic.

    If it was showing in Epic, you likely got it there.

    They were running some free promotions, so maybe that's how you go it. That would be an interesting discussion with Epic - "I got the game when you were giving it away. So, will you be providing me support?"

  • Yohhst's avatar
    Yohhst
    New Rookie
    2 months ago

    OK this is getting ridiculous. I figured, the helpdesks don't seem to be able to help me, so I will just purchase the game again (it's not like it's expensive). So I just bought it again, and guess what: the moment my order went through, the game is BACK IN MY EA LIBRARY INCUDING that I already played it for 44 hours! Screw this, I am gonna ask for a refund of this second purchase because if I only just bought it I couldn't possibly already have 44 hours of play under my belt.

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