EA Shutting Down Origin on April 17, Recommends Upgrade to EA App

[_roman_]

Why even have a separate client? All of their new releases are on Steam now,

Some AMD hardware came with "star wars jedi survivor"
I think that put some EA Software extra on my disk. I think I was also forced to deal with that unknown ea website.

Sienna_Cichlid /mnt/windows/Program Files/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop #

Why not keep the old binaries on the windows system? Who cares for wasted disk space? (sarcasm)

Sienna_Cichlid /mnt/windows/Program Files/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop/outdatedEADesktop #

Looking at those webpages show there are people answering questions without an idea. A year old question which was brought to attention. Are those folder contents lint or not. Without a fix.
example 1: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-D...EADesktop-quot-folder-expendable/m-p/10139919
example 2: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-D...rom-the-outdatedEADesktop-folder/m-p/12356587

Without testing or checking, a few asked before, see links provided, I consider ~600MB as lint space waste from EA. Checking the timestamp of that folder also give that expression.

I think even the EPIC Games Launcher for the game 'Dragon Age Inquisition' required the ea software.

roman@Sienna_Cichlid /mnt/windows/EA_GAMES $ ls
'Dragon Age Inquisition'  'Jedi Survivor'

I do not do much maintenance for my gaming only windows 11 pro installation.

When Origin uninstalls it just flat out deletes the entire folder

Thanks for the warning.
Software exectuted in Windows 11 pro tend to keep useless files in hidden folders. You may check some temp folders and such.

 

[londiste]

The problem is, that It seemed, that it coudn't be any worse. But EA being EA, and EA App is even worse! It's miles worse, to the point of being cimpletely unusable.

Why is it unusable?

EA games for the most part do require and use EA app. It does not matter that you buy them in Steam, Epic or Xbox store.
Some can run without it but default state is installing EA app and starting it along with the game.