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You can still transfer your game titles and progress to the new app, though.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It will run while you are playing, but you can set it to close automatically once you quit the game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah see that's what I'm talking about. No thanks.

I'd rather pirate it so there's no extra crap running on my PC

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You won't lose the games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unless it's GOG, then you own the installers you've downloaded. Not on the intellectual property sense, but in the physical sense, as in you literally have them stored somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. Correct

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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.