Purchased SW Jedi Fallen Order on Steam but EA Origin prevents playing

[wrathe]

I purchased and played the game on Steam. Played for 16 hours, then when I went to start today EA Origin pops up and tells me I don't have game installed and I need to install it. I looked in both directories (Steam and Origin) and the game is installed in both. Regardless, Steam will not launch game anymore, it will only redirect to Origin, and Origin will not launch game it wants me to re-download again.

[DentMasterson]

Yeah, I'm having the same issue. I was really hoping not to use origin. It always feels like garbage.

[Flyingbox]

As this is fairly new for EA, it's a launcher in a launcher. Steam will call origin (which is installed with the game) and you'll have to log in to your origin account (which will bind a 'steam' branded version of the game) and then it will patch/update/etc in origin itself.

You might have to reach out to EA on this one.

If you don't have an origin account you're logged in as a guest of sorts.

[Tamaster]

Originally posted by wrathe:

I purchased and played the game on Steam. Played for 16 hours, then when I went to start today EA Origin pops up and tells me I don't have game installed and I need to install it. I looked in both directories (Steam and Origin) and the game is installed in both. Regardless, Steam will not launch game anymore, it will only redirect to Origin, and Origin will not launch game it wants me to re-download again.

Have you tried doing REPAIR on origin?

Also you can try go in settings on origin and set game library location to the folder where jedi fallen order is installed, than after this you click download and it will say something like PREPARING, that means hopefully it found the gamefiles and is recognizing it's already installed.

Try these 2 things.

[wrathe]

Originally posted by Tamaster:

Originally posted by wrathe:

I purchased and played the game on Steam. Played for 16 hours, then when I went to start today EA Origin pops up and tells me I don't have game installed and I need to install it. I looked in both directories (Steam and Origin) and the game is installed in both. Regardless, Steam will not launch game anymore, it will only redirect to Origin, and Origin will not launch game it wants me to re-download again.

Have you tried doing REPAIR on origin?

Also you can try go in settings on origin and set game library location to the folder where jedi fallen order is installed, than after this you click download and it will say something like PREPARING, that means hopefully it found the gamefiles and is recognizing it's already installed.

Try these 2 things.

Yes, tried both things. The repair did not fix it, it re-downloaded all 50GB. As for pointing it to the 50GB Steam install, its in the process of finding itself again - even with all the steam files its still downloading "_STAGED" copies of the files first, then deletes it after it finds the files.

There is a comment thread on Origin site about this as well, but there have been no answers so far.

[Tamaster]

Originally posted by wrathe:

Originally posted by Tamaster:

Have you tried doing REPAIR on origin?

Also you can try go in settings on origin and set game library location to the folder where jedi fallen order is installed, than after this you click download and it will say something like PREPARING, that means hopefully it found the gamefiles and is recognizing it's already installed.

Try these 2 things.

Yes, tried both things. The repair did not fix it, it re-downloaded all 50GB. As for pointing it to the 50GB Steam install, its in the process of finding itself again - even with all the steam files its still downloading "_STAGED" copies of the files first, then deletes it after it finds the files.

There is a comment thread on Origin site about this as well, but there have been no answers so far.

Diagnosis: origin being origin, so another way of saying it's being complete garbage. I hate that client for stuff like this. On steam it NEVER HAPPENS.

[DentMasterson]

It's definitely an origin issue. From what I can tell trying to fix my issue, origin doesn't recognize the install location. It wants to download the whole game again, which is crazy. It's headaches like this I don't buy EA games.

[BlackRock Saber]

And this is why I backed out on buying it. I knew this was gonna happen one day and i was right. It happened to my BF3 game and now it happens to you guys on this one...Now you know they just want to take your money and give you double launchers just for ♥♥♥♥♥ when it is unnecessary.

[wrathe]

So I finally got it working again. Assumptions:
- that you currently have the game already installed on Steam
- that you do not have the game installed from Origin

• Install Jedi using Origin in the location where Steam has downloaded the game. If you have the folder open you'll see "_staged" files. You'll get to about 46% complete (Origin will not pass this %). Stop the download in Origin. Exit out of Origin.
  
• Using Steam, uninstall Jedi - Do not uninstall from Origin. You should no longer have the "Play" option in Steam
  
• Log back into Origin, re-install Jedi from Origin again - again make sure path is at the steam install location. This time Origin install will reach 100%.
  
• Restart Origin

Now you can launch the game from within Origin. You cannot use steam to "play" the game.

This kept my current save progress. I know its silly but I literally tried hours of different methods. I have installed the game 6 times in 3 different locations (Steam, Origin Default, Origin over Steam) and this was the only way I got it to work for me. There were a couple of installs where it seemed to work, but then Origin would pop up and say the game was not installed.

[Nihil]

Don't want to sound rude but why in the holy hell's name did you buy this on Steam? Since it still needs to have Origin installed? It's clearly stated on the store page and is a know practice with Ubisoft and EA games since ages. Just why?!?!?!

[wrathe]

Originally posted by Nihilus:

Don't want to sound rude but why in the holy hell's name did you buy this on Steam? Since it still needs to have Origin installed? It's clearly stated on the store page and is a know practice with Ubisoft and EA games since ages. Just why?!?!?!

I like pain :P