EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app

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• secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck I was so excited for a minute. I thought they were finally giving up on their shitty launcher but they made a fucking new one.

  I love battlefield, but I don’t play it because I’m not have another fucking launcher.

  Same with Ubisoft. I love farcry but I don’t play it because of their stupid fucking launcher.

  GTA I wanna play more of but they have a stupid fucking launcher.

  If your game is on steam it shouldn’t ship with another launcher.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just use github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite

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    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But once I download and play an EA or Ubisoft game won’t their launcher still be running in the background even with this? Just like on steam

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• Hominy_Hank@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Users ask EA to shut down new EA app, and just use Steam.”

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not clear, am I going to lose games if I don’t do this?

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  • verdigris@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, you still own the games, you just won’t be able to access them through Origin. You have to download a different launcher. I don’t think you really have to do anything else to “migrate”.

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    • Outtatime@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just want to point out that you own nothing in a digital store.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You won’t lose the games.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m surprised it was even still able to be used. Last time I went to check out what I even had on my EA library and launched Origin, it wouldn’t let me do anything but get the new EA Play app.

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