What is EA Application?

[Kurai Shidosha]

Are they saying you have to install Origin or whatever to play this? If so, it's completely dead in the water for me. I'll never support that going forward. Would be a shame.

[stburr91]

The game requires the EA App, there's no way around that.

I wish Steam would put a stop to these 3rd party app requirements, but it seems they have no interest in do so.

[Simon said EAT DUST PLAYER_1 !]

Origin was renamed / replaced-by EA App, because that is the current Zeitgeist it seems, to replace established (/infamous, hated) brands with new names in order to hush up previous corporate history. That is how it seems in this case.

"Raider is now Twix, sonst ändert sich nix"

[DmAnd]

I don't know really anyting at all about the EA launcher or why everyone is so mad.
Can someone explain that part to me? Thanks

[Simon said EAT DUST PLAYER_1 !]

Originally posted by DmAnd:

I don't know really anyting at all about the EA launcher or why everyone is so mad.
Can someone explain that part to me? Thanks

Main grief is that it is seldomly necessary. And it overcomplicates managing your games that you e.g. "already own on Steam" - as Steam itself is all the launcher-software that anyone would need for games that are sold on this here platform.

So the main critique-point is: double-layering of "launchers". More background-tasks that sometimes conflict with each other - all for the sake of sniffing out users' behaviour by multiple parties, simultaneously. Most single-player games just need 1 download, maybe a patch and some sort of drm to combat theft. And every so-called "launcher" in existence provides functional and sufficient measures towards those goals. No need to double- and tripple-layer all that stuff, ever!

Add to that the complications when using Linux/Steamdeck: EA-App "updates" itself, hangs on next boot, makes me needlessly re-set / reinstall the thing just because EA is unable to make a robust "launcher" (( for a decade-old single-player title that has not seen updates for YEARS and for which multiplayer-servers had been taken down by ea for a while, already ))

[stburr91]

Originally posted by DmAnd:

I don't know really anyting at all about the EA launcher or why everyone is so mad.
Can someone explain that part to me? Thanks

Because there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to require the EA app, we can simply launch the game from Steam, where we bought the game.

People don't want bloatware on their computer for no reason other than EA wants your data.

[DmAnd]

Understood thanks. I agree, Steam seems just fine and i really don't want extra processes running on my PC when they are not needed.

Like drug feens but with data

[Socks with jandals]

Originally posted by Simon said EAT DUST PLAYER_1 !:

Originally posted by DmAnd:

I don't know really anyting at all about the EA launcher or why everyone is so mad.
Can someone explain that part to me? Thanks

Main grief is that it is seldomly necessary. And it overcomplicates managing your games that you e.g. "already own on Steam" - as Steam itself is all the launcher-software that anyone would need for games that are sold on this here platform.

So the main critique-point is: double-layering of "launchers". More background-tasks that sometimes conflict with each other - all for the sake of sniffing out users' behaviour by multiple parties, simultaneously. Most single-player games just need 1 download, maybe a patch and some sort of drm to combat theft. And every so-called "launcher" in existence provides functional and sufficient measures towards those goals. No need to double- and tripple-layer all that stuff, ever!

Add to that the complications when using Linux/Steamdeck: EA-App "updates" itself, hangs on next boot, makes me needlessly re-set / reinstall the thing just because EA is unable to make a robust "launcher" (( for a decade-old single-player title that has not seen updates for YEARS and for which multiplayer-servers had been taken down by ea for a while, already ))

What this guy said. I'm going to hold off on buying this game, hopefully they get rid of this silly requirement.

[Actionjackson]

Did you rly think EA will allow to not collect your data to be processed and sold?

[Simon said EAT DUST PLAYER_1 !]

Don't hold your breath.
The main reason they are forcing this stupid stuff down our throats is they want to increase revenue and cut cost. By manipulating customers to use their own launcher and thereby software-distribution. And they do not want to work on distribution more than once (again: cutting costs). Hence: double- and tripple-stacking of distribution-platforms. They are big enough to host their own - as to make shipping the software cheaper (for them) than to pay Steam their usual cut. Does not mean they give you a discount, they just seek to increase their own margins with this.

So either they already reached out to the dev-team of this game to integrate into EA-App - or they did not yet do so. We will see.

[DmAnd]

I'm hoping something good will come of the data collection. You would think by now all that data collection would indicate that lootboxes and micro transactions suck.

I am a VR fanboy, the optimist in me thinks they will see all the VR players and no vr no buy will not be a issue anymore.

[Napoleonic S]

I'm confused, the store page as right now only mentions denuvo and 3rd party EULA... where's this origin/ea app whatever requirement from? does this game require it or not?

[Bernard The Gurnard]

Originally posted by Napoleonic S:

I'm confused, the store page as right now only mentions denuvo and 3rd party EULA... where's this origin/ea app whatever requirement from? does this game require it or not?

It's an Electronic Arts game so it needs the EA App.

Download here: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/ea-app

You will need to make an account if you buy the game.

[Napoleonic S]

Originally posted by Bernard The Gurnard:

Originally posted by Napoleonic S:

I'm confused, the store page as right now only mentions denuvo and 3rd party EULA... where's this origin/ea app whatever requirement from? does this game require it or not?

It's an Electronic Arts game so it needs the EA App.

Download here: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/ea-app

You will need to make an account if you buy the game.

And yet the store page doesn't mention that, someone could sue them for this.

[Bernard The Gurnard]

Originally posted by Napoleonic S:

Originally posted by Bernard The Gurnard:

It's an Electronic Arts game so it needs the EA App.

Download here: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/ea-app

You will need to make an account if you buy the game.

And yet the store page doesn't mention that, someone could sue them for this.

Read the WRC EULA. - ELECTRONIC ARTS USER AGREEMENT

[Socks with jandals]

Originally posted by Bernard The Gurnard:

Originally posted by Napoleonic S:

And yet the store page doesn't mention that, someone could sue them for this.

Read the WRC EULA. - ELECTRONIC ARTS USER AGREEMENT

Or if you have already read it, you could always have saved them some time and answered their question... then again, it's probably a good idea for people to always give the EULA a skim.