The EA App is still being forced on us

[Septimus-Prime]

The Origin Browser now says "Please use the EA App To Continue". Don't get me wrong, I'm still able to play the game and get achievements, but would there be another way to get around this or has the EA App with the achievements fixed yet?

[Amrith_Menon]

any solution yet?

[World Guardian of Guthix]

What a piece of ♥♥♥♥ you have to be to be actively trying to sabotage your own customers that help to fix your own mistakes? This garbage company developers are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who constantly launches patches to keep things broken and scam their own customers

[Septimus-Prime]

Originally posted by World Guardian of Guthix:

What a piece of ♥♥♥♥ you have to be to be actively trying to sabotage your own customers that help to fix your own mistakes? This garbage company developers are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who constantly launches patches to keep things broken and scam their own customers

I am just asking, I am not selling anything...and please I'm not here for trouble. I was asking a possible expert, thanks...

Originally posted by Amrith_Menon:

any solution yet?

None that I know of, sorry.

[Zefnoly]

Nope and it seems it likely never will. The problem has been found long ago but EA is just not doing much if anything about it...

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-Legendary-Edition/Mass-Effect-Legendary-Edition-EA-App-Achievements-don-t-unlock/td-p/11420797/page/30

Little to no explanation directly from EA has been given but people have already found what the actual problem is to the core.

For archivements work by checking what you have and havent unlocked by reading a file stored on your computer. Each game has a "gamerprofile" file tied to them that stores all your archivement progress and generally speaking also if you also have completed the game in the past to allow "new game +" and such.

The new EA APP forcefully downloads a 100% completed version of this file once ran. The only few workarounds as ive seen is to prevent the new EA app from touching this file. It is very tedious and difficult to do. And requires various methods that are sub par and not optimal. Some people have to just delete this file everytime they boot the game so it goes blank. But this leads to other step by step archivements not being possible too. Like some paragon related ones.

Basically the game thinks you already have all archivements unlocked from the start. Because of this you never unlock any new archivements within the game. Thus you wont unlock any new archivements outside of the game. It also means you are able to do a new game + without even completing the game in many cases.

This problem has been uttered directly to moderators and staff but never seem to go further than that as they return afterwards asking people to just fill generic forms. The problem has existed for litteral years. But EA just doesnt seem to care to fix it. Eventually you may just have to install mods that prevent EA app from touching this file or whatever. No fix seems to be in sight. I personally made backups of the game saves once I couldnt use origin anymore to preserve my game in hope for a fix but it seems to never come.

[Darfeyn]

Yeah, I was dumbfounded when I saw that blank screen with just "Please use EA App to continue" yesterday as I launched ME Andromeda through the Frosty Mod Manager.
Good thing I stumbled upon the "how to keep Origin and not get EAapp'ed" plus still had an old version (10.5.115 from Sept. 2022?) before I started my 2nd playthrough (and last) of MEA 1 month ago.

Planned to finally uninstall MEA and maybe go back to the main trilogy once again, but now that they managed to break Origin even more, I guess not. Oh well, I bought only the Mass Effect games on Origin and already spent hundreds of hours in each, so not much regrets leaving them behind. Don't want to use that app-thing anytime soon (probably never will).

[MightyKombat]

Any of y'all try this?
https://github.com/Dyvinia/StayOnOrigin/releases

Moreover, any of y'all try this thing called a Search bar?

[Zefnoly]

Originally posted by MightyKombat:

Any of y'all try this?
https://github.com/Dyvinia/StayOnOrigin/releases

Moreover, any of y'all try this thing called a Search bar?

I wont... I rather either just wait for EA to fix it or I just wont play it anymore... Tired of weird workarounds...

[Septimus-Prime]

Do the steam achievements work without the ea achievements?

[Holliday]

if anyones wondering, the fix where you replace the ea app with an old origin app still works even though it says "please use ea app to continue"

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Zefnoly:

For archivements work by checking what you have and havent unlocked by reading a file stored on your computer. Each game has a "gamerprofile" file tied to them that stores all your archivement progress and generally speaking also if you also have completed the game in the past to allow "new game +" and such.

The new EA APP forcefully downloads a 100% completed version of this file once ran. The only few workarounds as ive seen is to prevent the new EA app from touching this file. It is very tedious and difficult to do. And requires various methods that are sub par and not optimal. Some people have to just delete this file everytime they boot the game so it goes blank. But this leads to other step by step archivements not being possible too. Like some paragon related ones.

Oh so that's why I started ME2 with all bonuses, I thought it had remembered the original game achievements or something.

[Septimus-Prime]

Originally posted by rotating monkey:

if anyones wondering, the fix where you replace the ea app with an old origin app still works even though it says "please use ea app to continue" :cozybethesda:

Yeah, I caught up on that, thanks!

[Darfeyn]

Originally posted by MightyKombat:

Any of y'all try this?
https://github.com/Dyvinia/StayOnOrigin/releases

Moreover, any of y'all try this thing called a Search bar?

Yeah? That's how I found those 2 guides that basically do the same, just have to do it manually instead of using a .exe:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1328670/discussions/0/3829787744071175610/
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951035198&searchtext=origin

The thing is, even if Origin still launch after using the workaround, it now shows a blank screen with only "Please use EA App to continue". For me at least, can't do anything else than launch the games already installed. The window stays blank whatever I try to access, Game Library, Friends' list, options...

[bulletshowerr]

Originally posted by Darfeyn:

Originally posted by MightyKombat:

Any of y'all try this?
https://github.com/Dyvinia/StayOnOrigin/releases

Moreover, any of y'all try this thing called a Search bar?

Yeah? That's how I found those 2 guides that basically do the same, just have to do it manually instead of using a .exe:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1328670/discussions/0/3829787744071175610/
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951035198&searchtext=origin

The thing is, even if Origin still launch after using the workaround, it now shows a blank screen with only "Please use EA App to continue". For me at least, can't do anything else than launch the games already installed. The window stays blank whatever I try to access, Game Library, Friends' list, options...

I just checked this: my origin show the same blank page with the same message. I am happy i did finished all achievement so i no longer need a EA alternave way.

From now on, i will not buy any game that need the crappy EA launcher.