Hi How2siege, sorry to hear your having the same issue! I don't have a solution I'm afraid even though my SWBF2 version did swap back to a EA edition for four days and then for no reason swapped to an accessed through Epic version again. It's obviously an ongoing issue with EA's library system messing up ownership and access of games...
For some reason I can now play the game via Epic but this means two game launchers running and you can really see the CPU/RAM system drain. The EA app runs 4 services and takes 30% of my system resources alone, add in Epic and I'm basically spending 40% of my system resources just to launch the game. What a complete load of rubbish the EA app is. Honestly, I can't believe they'd release it without ironing out such basic issues. Contempt for their customers comes to my mind...
Regarding EA customer support I got an email 24 hours after opening my ticket about this issue asking if I wanted to keep it open or they'd automatically close the ticket. I clicked on the link to keep my ticket open only to find there is no way to keep the ticket open!!! So this issue is supposedly closed now because it magically fixed itself before even EA got around to looking at it... what a downright nefarious way to hide the fact they aren't providing support and solutions... just close the ticket down 'automatically' before looking at the problem with no way for the customer to stop them. Presumably so they can provide bogus 'positive' customer service statistics.
Regarding a potential solution other than buying through Epic I'm wondering if somehow the 4 days of playing SWBF2 via my correct EA owned game I got recently had something to do with me trying to fix it. I did an app recovery, cleared the EA cache, signed in different ways (email and EA name), signed in offline and online, etc. I'm going to try this again and see if it resets back to the correct 'stand edition' owned via EA rather than the incorrect 'standard edition accessed via Epic'. All this messing around and lost game time is just further proof never to buy games via EA :/
Yeah, It's a shame. What happened to me is that when I launch the game it instantly opens up epic games and on the ea app it says "Launching game" and nothing happens at all. Even when I log into the epic games client it doesn't show up that I own the game...
I never had this issue when I used the Origin App. it would just originally boost up with no need to have the Epic Games client. It's so stupid how you need to launch the Epic client after downloading it through EA.
Any EA game that needs to be opened via other gaming Clients is just straight-up *. As you stated, this may be an ownership issue between the two companies. Just poorly optimized and running.
Hope it works out in the future for you. I just uninstalled it. no point in having a 60GB game that takes hours to download just for a company to deny or accept any wrongdoings.
Sorry you had to uninstall the game. Maybe that's what they want in a way so that people buy new games? I still think SWBF2 is a great game, especially the Star Fighter section which knocks spots off clunky Star Wars Squadrons. If Ea, etc, wanted to make a lot of money they could spin out the starfighter section of the game with a new adventure and level editor and it would probably make tens of millions if not more for very little effort...
