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shorty943pshorty943p Posts: 247 Member
As the title says. at start Origin is pushing the new EA App.

Has anybody installed it and how bad is it?

Does it totally replace Origin and can we use it the same way, or have they "messed" with us again?
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  • SlackerSlacker Posts: 2,823 Member
    yeah it works the same
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  • LaBlue0314LaBlue0314 Posts: 17,436 Member
    What's this about a new EA App?
  • Emo-usagi2187Emo-usagi2187 Posts: 600 Member
    LaBlue0314 wrote: »
    What's this about a new EA App?

    Apparently is App can use for your phone don't use it been work wired.
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  • friendlysimmersfriendlysimmers Posts: 7,542 Member
    i would not install such a buggy program it prevented me from loading sims4 had to uninstall and reinstall origin
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  • GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,294 Member
    CrazyFrog wrote: »
    yeah it works the same

    Are you saying that we have the hours of play counted? Is there a way to repair the game, too? I tried out the Beta app ages ago and reported back those were my concerns. Mostly about the lack of ability to do a game repair.
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  • Nate_Whiplash1Nate_Whiplash1 Posts: 4,085 Member
    I can't for the life of me figure out why I would want that app. Playing on my phone would be horrible, I only want to do it in front of my home pc
  • StarfreeStarfree Posts: 1,444 Member
    edited August 2022
    @Nate_Whiplash1 the app runs on a pc. As far as I know it does NOT run on your phone.

    Edit: it's a replacement for the origin game launcher. FYI: when you install it, it uninstalls origin; BUT if you find you don't like the new app you can reinstall origin & everything will be there, at least it was for me..
  • Nate_Whiplash1Nate_Whiplash1 Posts: 4,085 Member
    Ahh, I see. I still don't see any advantage in running it, though
  • JaiSeaJaiSea Posts: 907 Member
    Never heard of it. Is it for the phone or the computer?
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  • GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,294 Member
    JaiSea wrote: »
    Never heard of it. Is it for the phone or the computer?

    When you open up Origin, do you never get the ad, for lack of a better term, to try out the new Beta App? That's how I discovered it. I went ahead and gave it a try, but that was months ago now. I went back to the regular Origin, which I never uninstalled from my computer.
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  • OnverserOnverser Posts: 3,364 Member
    I had the beta, seemed to be just Origin with a (much needed) cosmetic update. Only thing is I'm not sure that I trust buying through it since it's still in its early stages
  • GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,294 Member
    I still have the Beta on my computer. I could find nowhere where I could repair my game!
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  • shorty943pshorty943p Posts: 247 Member
    OK, thanks all.

    Now, where do I find a way to disable yet another unwanted "friendly reminder" from EA.
    This 🐸🐸🐸🐸 thing is annoying me.
  • maggiemae8135maggiemae8135 Posts: 790 Member
    I got the app on my pc and it worked fine. I believe you can use either Origin or the app and can go back and forth. I use Origin as well. I got the app because my origin wasn't working, but now I have and can use both. The app is still in Beta.
  • SlackerSlacker Posts: 2,823 Member
    edited August 2022
    In the EA app, goto 'my collection' in your installed game where Sims 4 is displayed on top right hand corner you should see three dots (...) where you click and thats where i goto repair my game. Done it twice already went perfectly fine without a hitch :smiley: (oh btw your game shoudlnt be running or else you wont get the option)
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  • GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,294 Member
    CrazyFrog wrote: »
    In the EA app, goto 'my collection' in your installed game where Sims 4 is displayed on top right hand corner you should see three dots (...) where you click and thats where i goto repair my game. Done it twice already went perfectly fine without a hitch :smiley: (oh btw your game shoudlnt be running or else you wont get the option)

    Thank you. You should also remove your Mods folder, if you have mods/cc, too before you do a game repair. :) So go to my collection and click on the ellipsis dots and select repair. Got it! So do you find the app better than the original form?
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  • GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,294 Member
    shorty943p wrote: »
    OK, thanks all.

    Now, where do I find a way to disable yet another unwanted "friendly reminder" from EA.
    This 🤔🤔🤔🤔 thing is annoying me.

    The 'reminder' stopped showing up after I kept using the original platform. I may have had to ignored it a couple of times, however. And now, they are pushing it, so I'll have to see if it shows up again today when I power up my game. I agree, it's annoying.
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  • JaiSeaJaiSea Posts: 907 Member
    JaiSea wrote: »
    Never heard of it. Is it for the phone or the computer?

    When you open up Origin, do you never get the ad, for lack of a better term, to try out the new Beta App? That's how I discovered it. I went ahead and gave it a try, but that was months ago now. I went back to the regular Origin, which I never uninstalled from my computer.

    No, I don't. But thank you for explaining it to me.
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  • shorty943pshorty943p Posts: 247 Member
    GalacticGal, thanks.
    This thing is still annoying me, I guess I'll just have to continue clicking no thanks until it goes away for good.
  • SlackerSlacker Posts: 2,823 Member

    Thank you. You should also remove your Mods folder, if you have mods/cc, too before you do a game repair. :) So go to my collection and click on the ellipsis dots and select repair. Got it! So do you find the app better than the original form?

    Yes the EA app is better !

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  • WaytoomanyUIDsWaytoomanyUIDs Posts: 844 Member
    The app its at the best lacklustre. it doesn't have all games and its only advantage is that it has an in game setting (Hamburger Menu -> Help -> App Recovery) to clear the cache when it forgets where the games library is, unlike Origin. But the last time I started it decided I dont have any of my DLC installed, (luckily clearing the cache worked), so I havent used it since then.

    If they are going to have a new app then it shouldn't have an inferiour UI while sharing the worst bugs of Origin.
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  • GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,294 Member
    CrazyFrog wrote: »

    Thank you. You should also remove your Mods folder, if you have mods/cc, too before you do a game repair. :) So go to my collection and click on the ellipsis dots and select repair. Got it! So do you find the app better than the original form?

    Yes the EA app is better !

    Cool, thanks for the reply. :)
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  • vulpdenvulpden Posts: 16 Member
    The EA app is far better for me! Origin was so slow and I recently just couldn't launch TS4 at all because when the launcher opened, Origin would crash my PC. I tried everything to fix it and it just didn't. I'm SO glad theres the EA app now, and it works exactly the same, just better optimised and it doesn't crash my computer, lol.
  • Colorist40Colorist40 Posts: 7,102 Member
    When Origin wasn't showing my games I went into the app and tried to play offline as i didn't want to patch with the last patch due to the issues that came with it. The app was the only way I could play it appeared to me, but I couldn't find the way to play offline with the app. So I at first refused to use it. Then I found the play offline, but after I clicked that on the app, it said I needed to repair as one of my saves might be corrupted. So I started repairing. It repaired alright, but added the latest patch as well. I know this as after it repaired, there was no longer an update required button, but just the play button. So damage was done inadvertently on my part, and decided I would keep using the app, while Origin was still installed. I had to be sure Origin wasn't running for the app to work. No issues there. After a few days of playing on the app, my game started crashing every half hour or so. Frustrating. I tried everything even removing mods that yes were updated, but still did it. Then I decided to see if Origin was working again, and see if playing through Origin would fix the problem. I wasn't hopeful, but gave it a shot, and have had no crashing of my game since. So no app for me, I will stick with Origin.
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