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MysticOrre413
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2 years ago
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How do I find my Origin ID?

I was asked to provide

  1. my email address linked to my EA account
  2. my PSN ID
  3. my Origin ID

in order to speak to someone via live chat to attempt to fix an issue with my Sims game rather than constantly being bounced between email threads with continuous handoffs between different support team members, but there's no subject under the 'Origin - Manage My Account' topic on EA Help that explicitly states 'Can't login', only variations on phrasing that often include linking the Origin account with other services. I'm autistic and require explicit instructions on exactly what I'm looking for on my screen to be able to fix things, so I don't know how I'm supposed to be able to enter a help request using the phrasing 'Can't login' in order to find the ID I used on a program that is meant to have been phased out in favour of something that feels like it's still in early access, for how functional it is (or isn't, more to the point) if no such phrasing exists under the topic tab I was meant to use.

Can someone using the English language version of EA Help who's had a similar issue in the past tell me what topic tag I need to use to be able to open a case to get my EA Origin ID info back, or just tell me if the EA ID and the EA Origin ID are the same thing and they've just been overly obtuse in asking me for it?

  • @MysticOrre413   Hello!  I'm sorry you're having trouble with this.  Your Origin ID is the same as your EA ID.  It should also be the same as your ID here on AHQ; mine is JonaO703 here and also in the EA app, as well as in my EA Account profile.

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  • @MysticOrre413   Hello!  I'm sorry you're having trouble with this.  Your Origin ID is the same as your EA ID.  It should also be the same as your ID here on AHQ; mine is JonaO703 here and also in the EA app, as well as in my EA Account profile.

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    2 years ago

    Hi @MysticOrre413 

    As @JonaO703 mentioned, your EA ID is the same as your Origin ID. For getting through the help site to contact live chat, please follow these steps:

    1. For the product, please select EA app

    2. For the topic, please select "I need help logging in to my EA Account"

    From here, you'll be taken to the current available contact options, you should be seeing a "Chat with us" button to live chat with the support team. If you have any further issues contacting live support from the site, please let me know! 

  • MysticOrre413's avatar
    MysticOrre413
    Rising Rookie
    2 years ago

    Thank you so much, I hate when companies or services overcomplicate things by referring to the same thing by two different names. It's like when a movie gets completely different names in America vs Britain for no apparent reason. Even the Professor Layton games did that but honestly sometimes the US names were better, so meh lol

  • JonaO703's avatar
    JonaO703
    Hero
    2 years ago

    @MysticOrre413   You're welcome!  It is certainly confusing when things aren't labeled clearly.  I'm just guessing this was an oversight; not adding "EA ID" to the help process.  Hopefully someone on the team will address that and also, I do hope you're able to get your account and games running smoothly! :-)