New EA App
As the title says. at start Origin is pushing the new EA App. Has anybody installed it and how bad is it? Does it totally replace Origin and can we use it the same way, or have they "messed" wit...
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"ignominiusrex;c-18195634" wrote:
Don't you have to just repurchase everything on steam though if you want to use that instead? And what about if you have store content for sims3, can't just switch it over to a steam account, right?
@ignominiusrex You should Not have to repurchase anything, you should be able to bring your games over if you have the game serial number or you can link your Origin account to your Steam acct directly. I switched some things over to Origin from Steam a few years back and it worked just fine. With the Sims games I had to provide Origin the long number for each pack before they would acknowledge that I did indeed own the content. I have also had games I bought elsewhere added to Steam as well and that worked. Google knows how to do all of this. I'm not sure how it works with Sims 3 store content but your Origin account will know what you own. Which brings me to the following part.
Know this: If you bring your Sims 4 game to Steam you will still automatically launch the Origin launcher to play your Sims 4 game but you may be able to bypass a problematic EA app for now. Frex: If you have ever played Fallout 3 or 4 on steam when you press Play it opens a Fallout launcher to play the game. It should work the same way.
ETA: Since the Sims 4 base game is now free to play you can get that on steam for free and test drive how it opens, if it works, if it allows you access to your Origin account if you've lost access to it after switching to the EA app.
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