New EA App

The EA app isn't opening for me today. It had been working mostly ok but not today.
I read the EA app had come out of Beta.
I don't like the look of the new EA App much, personally, it has the same look most of the other games launchers have and I don't care for the look of them either.

Don't make the switch to the EA app today.

"Starfree;c-18194717" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-18194655" wrote:
I'm not going to install anything Beta, but according to my calendar there are 2.5 months left of this year, so I'm in no hurry ;) As long as I can keep playing offline and patch only when I decide, it really won't matter to me whether I use Origin or App.

@Simmerville I believe the EA App is out of Beta now. At least that's the impression I got from reading the blog info. ::shrugs::

It has to be out of Beta. I tried the Beta and responded that there was no way that I could find to do a game repair. When I clicked on the Beta, just recently, it automatically updated itself. I had to have help from EA_Cade as to where the game repair was and it's there, now. If this isn't the latest and greatest then I imagine when they switch us over, when I click on it again it will update itself, or that's what I expect anyway.

I'm bailing on the EA app since it's not working for me. I reinstalled Origin, it will open and I can get back into my game library again.

@Catzilla unfortunately you'll have no choice but to use the EA App by the end of the year when they close down Origin.

"Starfree;c-18194859" wrote:
@Catzilla unfortunately you'll have no choice but to use the EA App by the end of the year when they close down Origin.

Yes, eventually there will be no alternative. Hopefully they'll get the issues ironed out of the EA app soon. For now though I'll use the Origin app and save myself some grief.

"shorty943p;d-1003082" wrote:
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" with us again?

Unfortunately they now disabled Origin to force everyone to use the EA app instead. But the EA app is missing several features Origin had… it cannot use command line arguments for compatibility. It cannot repair game. And it does not play nicely with older games. Not to mention, if EA refuses to continue to support and distribute a game, this is the very definition of abandonware. Off topic… there are a lot of Commodore and Atari 8 bit games in that category that can be played with emulators.

"shorty943p;c-18175849" wrote:
OK, thanks all.

Now, where do I find a way to disable yet another unwanted "friendly reminder" from EA.
This ???? thing is annoying me.

Talk about nagware….

"HimRumi;c-18191124" wrote:
For some reason when i’m offline and launch the Sims 3 launcher my expansion packs don’t show up. I’m so confused on what to do..

Unfortunately the final update to Sims 3 turns off ALL the EPs off by default. You have to reenable them in the Sims 3 launcher, EVERYTIME you play. They should have done that one year in with a setting to remember preferences. Instead they did it at the end after more people got newer computers that could run all the packs.

i had the beta version but didn't like it. decided to get the app when they annonced it was out of beta though i'm the least techy person on the planet but no issues everything shows up

"userafw;c-18194892" wrote:

"shorty943p;d-1003082" wrote:
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" with us again?

Unfortunately they now disabled Origin to force everyone to use the EA app instead. But the EA app is missing several features Origin had… it cannot use command line arguments for compatibility. It cannot repair game. And it does not play nicely with older games. Not to mention, if EA refuses to continue to support and distribute a game, this is the very definition of abandonware. Off topic… there are a lot of Commodore and Atari 8 bit games in that category that can be played with emulators.

Actually you can repair game with app and there is a place for command lines but I don't know which ones you can use there.

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