Restore ability to hide games in library
Since you just closed 4 year old topic suggesting restoring basic functionality (that was present in origin) here I am to create new one. Please restore ability to hide games or remove them from account. This is very important for games that are demos, betas or no longer available Why do I have to watch Bejeweled 3 every time I want to find battlefield in my library? Why do I have to watch ea sports madden nfl just because I clicked on wrong tile while I had EA Play and it was isntantly added to my account? I cannot even play it, it requires me to purchase subscription again (tile is grayed out) so I really have no idea why is it even visible in my library... I want to hide all these ugly mistakes and keep my library clean. It would be plus if I could add tags or group games into custom groups but just this basic functionality of hiding games and optionally removing them from account would be great.
EA app/game setup process
It might be a groundbreaking next gen idea if you folks actually put some info on setup processes of games and ea app updates itself. Like was in Windows 7 era. Details you know? Which files goes where, file names, useful progress bars. No need for simple thinking. Entire world is already simple enough Thank you!
The (actual) Friends list problem
5 years since the EA app betas, and the main problems with the friends list has still not been rectified. I'm not here to bash on EA or anything, just asking a question regarding actual functionality that is present in every competing launcher on PC. Why is the friends list limited to 99 friends? - Most other launchers supports at least 400 friends, and I had around 200 friends on Origin. Why does the right click not do anything, no drop down menu or anything? Every other PC launcher has this option. Even Origin had it, so why can't EA app manage friends the same way? Consoles also has the option to manage friends and game lobbies through the friends list. This is the Steam drop down menu. While in a game lobby, you also have the option to invite friends through this menu, or when friends are in an open game lobby, you can join through this menu. Same thing, but in League of Legends. The option to join game lobbies is not in the right click menu, but rather behind the friends' names, as a separate button. Like Origin had. Here is Ubisoft's version. The join/invite option becomes visible when a you or a friend plays a game that both owns. Side note: Ubisoft's client looks almost identical to the EA app. And lastly, here is Activision-Blizzard's Battle.net client. Like with the others, the option to join/invite becomes available when you or your friends are in a game lobby. Why is this functionality so hard to implement?EA App vs. Origin - Who did it better?
So, after the Origin workaround got removed, I have not had the desire to play much of EA titles. Why? Because the EA app launcher is a mess that has never worked right for me. Game overlay: Origin - Worked fine in every game that supported an overlay. Chats, friends list, game invites, options to join games. All was there. Even a rudimentary web browser. EA app - Serves to only display friends list and chats. Does not allow for joining games, feels clunky to use. And worst of all, it has never worked properly for me in older games, like Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition, so I can never host lobbies that my overseas friends can join anymore, since those games require a working overlay to manage the in-game invite function. Friends list: Origin - Had support for up to 400 friends, if I recall correctly. A healthy number. I had around 200 friends on Origin. - Very similar to how Steam and other launchers manages the friends list. Supported game invites and joining games by right-clicking on the friend you wanted to join/invite, or joining games directly with the nice blue button. EA app - Has a hard-cap of 99 friends! - This is some real BS, which means a lot of re-adding if old friends wants to catch up. No support for joining/inviting friends' games. - This functionality is present in every other game launcher available. Steam, Epic, Ubisoft and so on.. All of them supports game invites and joining through the friends list. Hell, even the CONSOLES has a join/invite function through the friends list. Come on EA, we live in 2025. This functionality should be a given. UI Origin - This was probably the weakest point of the old Origin launcher, where the UI was pretty much the same throughout its lifespan from 2011 and all the way up to the end. But it was functional enough, and easy to use and understand. It did not have a nice dark mode though, as it was mostly white, and the performance was all over the place, with frequent hangs. But it had a much more comprehensive settings menu. EA app - Looks nice and modern, and performs rather well. It feels more complicated to use compared to Origin, and the limited launcher settings tab is hidden behind your name. Library Origin - Showed every game you owned, including those that were part of the EA Play program, if you had previously been a subscriber. This made it easier to re-subscribe since all the games were in your library to download and play for a later date. Origin also supported trial version of games. EA app - Does not show all the games all the time, no trial versions, and any EA Play game you had in Origin is not present. Overall Experience Origin - Functioned as any other game launcher on PC. Intuitive to use, and had every function you needed from a game launcher. Granted, it was prone to hanging and crashing, but when it worked, it worked really well, and it felt like an EA version of Steam, in every good way possible. 9/10 - It had its issues, but it was a serviceable game launcher. EA app - Has not been a great experience in the slightest. The launcher is too limited, and lacks any form of basic functionality you would expect from a game launcher on PC. It feels more like a storefront page with a game library and a tiny friends list tacked on. 3/10 - While it looks and performs well, it does not serve its functionality as a game launcher should. My personal recommendation is for EA to implement a 400 friends cap and the functionality to invite/join games through the friends list, as ANY NORMAL GAME LAUNCHER HAS. That would be a start at least. Any thoughts from you guys?
Things take a little longer to load than usual...
cant play any EA games................ ever since i did the pre alpha run in the new BF game i cant connect to the EA app none of my games will load up ( even if i install em through steam)IF they have to connect to the the app then i have a good chance the game will not run and i have done literally every thing down to manually allowing the apps connection to the internet......AM I BANNED?D or something......cuz im starting to think that i am banned CM edit: edited title for clarity.
The New App UI is Not Intuitive.
The app layout was fine to begin with, you have installed games, and you see them on the left to quickly click on whatever game you'd like to interact with and there would be a nifty button to update or run the game from there. Now, you open the app and it shows you your home page which is just full prompts to buy buy buy and you have to click on the three lines to pull up the bar with your games and options to look at other tabs. This bar is now something that has to be pulled up instead of just being there and quickly accessible. I think the fact that it isn't a toggle in the settings, or at the very least a toggle button in itself that STAYS there is a simply bad choice. It makes using the app a bit of a chore. It's not a critical accessibility issue but it bothered me enough to actually write on a forum about it. Do not sacrifice the user experience for aesthetics. I don't want a "sleek" minimal game launcher, I want a game launcher that meets my needs and doesn't make me do extra work for something that I didn't even have to think about before.
Please add the ability to join and invite friends to games from the friends list
On Origin, I enjoyed the ability to invite friends to Mass Effect 3 games directly from the friends menu even if I was in the middle of a game, as well as join friends' games in progress. This was especially useful if one of us disconnected from a match; we could invite each other back or join. Now Origin is discontinued, and the new app is missing this crucial feature. For games that aren't a part of EA Connect, the ability to invite friends is limited. For Mass Effect 3, we can only invite from the lobby. Joining or inviting mid-match, we're out of luck. Users have been asking for this for years. Please add this feature.
