It’s impressive to make your new app so obviously worse than the last. It’s even more so when your last app was Origin.
I own some older EA games on Steam that still launch through Origin to this date (and fail most of the time). They’re gonna update those to remove the launcher, right? …right?
You have no consumer rights if you don’t enforce them either directly or via a representative.
I’d guess your issue is likely to be dealt with? But if it’s not, I’m gonna guess they’ve figured out that they can just ignore it and risk almost nothing.
i bet migrating to the new app is a microtransaction
A smarter company will do the migration for their users, especially if the new service is their own software.
It’s likely a TOS thing
Wdym? You can just show a new tos update popup which most already do.
Likely not smart enough to retain users
They had me in the first half…
I didn’t know Origin was still a thing. I’m still sore they bought Origin (Ultima, Wing Commander) and turned it into… a download service.
…that’s okay; in star citizen the vapid simulator download service is called electronic access…
don’t buy games on clown launchers imho
GTA6 will be the ultimate test
>buys game on steam
>game installs and executes Origin on launch
>Origin launches actual gameOk, I didn’t buy the game on a clown launcher. Now what?
Point being is to not buy a game with launchers…
It is called discipline, nobody gonna die by forgoing a game engaging in anti consumer behaviour
No I don’t think I will
While you can install a 32-bit app on Windows 11, which is 64-bit only, you’ll have to run it through the operating system’s compatibility features. This means you’ll likely encounter issues, especially as games are more complicated than the average app.
This makes zero sense.
Welcome to tech journalism.
Well, actually it’s all journalism, you only notice it in tech because you know more than the author. It’s called Gell-Mann Amnesia: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
So they think that… All game code runs through the EA app? That these proprietary launchers are not just a glorified .bat file that runs another file?
big nope
Why? Is there a difference? (I haven’t tried the new one and haven’t used Origin in years)
Too bad, Origin was actually pretty solid, the new app is complete trash (at least the last time I tried it)
