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2 years ago
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Steam -Multiplayer locked "Origin is offline". Only fix is buying game on EA too

The long story short is that I have bought the game 2 days ago over Steam and the only problem I have is that the multiplayer is locked with the following message "Origin is offline". Now I have done multiple things to try to fix this from reinstalling, restarting, Enabling NETBios, making a new environment variable and at least a few more fixes ive found over internet or was suggest to by EA support, yes I also checked EA does launch along with the game etc. . THE ONLY FIX I FOUND which is ridiculous because it actually worked and fixed it instantly is BUYING Titanfall 2 on EA TOO. The moment I did that multiplayer fixed itself.

Of course I didn't want to pay for something twice because I got the game on Steam so I refunded and well instantly it stopped working after that with multiplayer locked behind "Origin is offline".

So the obvious issue is that for some reason if you have the game on Steam something in the code, at least in my case probably isn't clicking the right way with EA Play and is not connecting me to multiplayer on Titanfall 2 but if you own the EA version it starts working. WHAT I ALSO NOTICED which is probably the reason for this, I apparently down own the base Titanfall 2 game on EA(probably bcs the Steam version is a different edition) hence how I could buy it in the first place.

My question is would you be kind to fix this for me by, I don't know perhaps making it so my account simply owns the base game on EA, I already have the game anyway just on a different launcher so it wouldn't really change anything aside fixing this problem.

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  • Of course I am not the only one who stumbled upon this issue and couldn't fix it there are messages even back from 2020 and none of these people ended up fixing their game I believe, if they did they didnt share it on the forum nor did anyone end up helping them. When I talked with the EA Support they said that this problem has never been mentioned before on the Forums...
    Well heres proof that this is a long standing issue and it seems that we just keep going in a circle where it has to be something on our end yet the fact that it fixes the moment you own the game on EA too proves that it isnt our fault and that something was overlooked on EA's end.

    Here's one of the topics that got opened with a few people complaining about the same issue 3-4 years ago.
    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Titanfall-Games/Multiplayer-locked-on-Titanfall2/td-p/9773627/highlight/true/page/1


    I am at a point where the EA Support had no way to fix this for me(in a way which isnt simply applying the base game to my account since I already own it on a different platform anyway) and actually sent me here to literally just try to stumble into a community manager...

  • EA_Illium's avatar
    EA_Illium
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    2 years ago

    Hey @1NeoWolf 

    Can we try the following steps?

    Cheers!

     
  • 1NeoWolf's avatar
    1NeoWolf
    2 years ago

    Ive tried all of that and as expected it doesn't work. Like I have said I found the reason behind this yet it seems everyone i stumble into that works for EA chooses to ignore this fact. It's got something to do with your launcher for sure otherwise why could I fix it easily by buying the game on the launcher too? 

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