The decision to retire Origin and replace it with the EA Desktop App was met with mixed reactions from gamers. The move to the EA Desktop App was part of a broader strategy by EA to consolidate its various services and platforms under a single brand. The full release of the EA Desktop App came in June 2021, with the company announcing that Origin would be retired later that year, however they kept the platform up until this week. The new app promised faster download speeds, improved navigation, and cross-platform play. However, the platform has been plagued with technical issues, slow download speeds, and a lack of features compared to competitors like Steam.ĮA began the transition to its new EA Desktop App in August 2020, offering a beta version of the software to select users. The Origin platform was originally launched in 2011 as a way for EA to distribute its own titles, such as the hugely popular “The Sims” and “FIFA” series, as well as titles from other publishers. Article taken from it was previously announced, Origin has officially shutdown this week, forcing millions of PC players to switch to EA App.įIFA players on PC found out this week that they cannot run FIFA 23 via Origin anymore and had to download and install the new EA Desktop App in order to play ‘The World’s Game’. Let me know in the comments how things are going for you on various EA games on Linux desktop / Steam Deck now. Where it is depends on what drive you have games installed on, the default is /.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/. Then inside your steamapps folder you will find compatdata and inside a folder with the same ID. If you find you also need to remove the compatdata folder for some EA games (for Steam Deck, be in Desktop Mode): find the Steam App ID (Right click a game -> properties -> updates) or grab the ID from the URL of the Steam store page for it. Note: the below can remove settings, possibly saves etc, do at your own risk. So it's a bit of a nuisance and acts differently between games, but it appears the EA app can still work with Proton but it might need a little extra work. Anyway, in this case simply quitting and reloading just seemed to fix it. Seems it's actually a sign-in window, as I was able to highlight things on it by trying to drag things out of the window. EA App seemed to install, then I just got greeted by a blank EA App window. Trying a new install of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on Fedora Linux (desktop) with Proton 7, and a similar issue as the above although it didn't need a compatdata folder removal. Forcing Proton Experimental on it, and then it actually worked. Quitting and reloading, it once again showed the blank EA app screen. With a fresh install of Titanfall 2 on Steam Deck with Proton 7, it had the issue again of a blank EA app screen that got stuck. Killing all Wine processes and exiting Steam, then reloading Titanfall 2 and after a few blank EA App screens appeared and vanished - it works again. Removing the compatdata folder, where all the Wine / Proton prefix data is stored and reloading got it a bit further, to some sort of blank EA App screen after successfully installing it that got stuck. It briefly showed a new EA App screen, then showed Origin and then went into the game.Īn existing Titanfall 2 install on Fedora Linux (desktop) however refused to initially launch, it gave me the EA screen and with Proton 7.0-4, Proton 7.0-5 (RC) and Proton Experimental it just wouldn't launch. The only difference seems to be introducing the EA App.Ĭhecking my existing install of The Sims 4 on Steam Deck and it seems fine. Multiple titles on Steam got updates within the last day, with no patch notes or announcements from EA that I can see. It seems the time has come, EA has begun the process of swapping from Origin to the EA app on Steam, which could cause a few issues for Linux and Steam Deck with Proton.
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