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In 2023, you can’t play a single player offline game on the EA Play app because their servers are down

by Random_Useless_Tips


In 2023, you can’t play a single player offline game on the EA Play app because their servers are down



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  • Random_Useless_Tips

    Just flabbergasted by how awful this platform is.

    Yesterday I decided to replay Dragon Age 2, a 2011 single-player title held hostage on PC by Origin and now EA Play.

    I installed EA Play and whatever, it’s one of those stupid obnoxious services which requires you to force-close because the X just minimises to system tray.

    Decided to resume playing today and I can’t even access my own games library because the servers are fucked.

    Tried launching it through the DA2 launcher in the files but nope, it reopens the EA Play launcher.

    Tried switching the launcher to offline mode, but then it freaks out that it can’t connect to the app and stays on a connection screen.

    It is absurd that a single-player game can’t even be played without mandatory online connection so that intrusive games companies can push their dysfunctional, unwanted services.

    EA Play is supposed to be an improved replacement for Origin but it’s somehow even worse. Just disgusted that, as per usual, EA can’t just let people play games.

    ETA: To the jackasses going “This is what you deserve for buying EA”, A) I bought DA2 a decade ago when the BioWare brand was still in good standing and B) This is a general complaint against always-online DRM that infests the industry. So the jackasses who will complain about EA but then go happily play Valorant with its kernel-level suspicious anticheat, Bethesda the King of Jank, or literally any other game in the so-called Triple A space, kindly piss off with your stupidly unwarranted elitism.

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  • iwanttobenora

    In 2013ish, this bullshit started. Multiple platforms have done it on and off. EA really showed it cash grabbing colors and hold back game pieces as DLC flag.

    I haven’t bought an EA game since. I refuse to. On principle alone.

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  • TorpedoDuck

    I’m also angry at games of today.

    I would also like to say whoever created the login process and main screen UI for the Call of Duty series is anti-human. I haven’t played COD since 2008, it was simple back then.

    Why am I not allowed to just put a disc in and play the single player game? Fucking PS membership harassment for full features, fuckin’ Activision login from hell, fuckin’ hides the single player behind layers, fuckin’ tries to sell me shit before I’ve experienced the game, fuckin’ has to download another 100GB before I can play the single player.

    When I insert or download my god damn game I want to press Start Game and New or Load and start playing it.

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  • MaveZzZ

    Well said about EA access and other bullshit services like this. Only Steam makes sense, rest of them is just pure, steaming garbage created by people with no sense of UI/UX.

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  • Kukukichu

    This seems like something that the EU would love to legislate against for consumer rights. If there’s nothing in the game content that is an online feature then consumers should be able to play what they have purchased without needing an internet connection. I’m not fully clued up on why this is happening, but I suspect this might be some DRM BS.

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  • bkconn

    I’m in the process of building my family a new house. So I’m living in a camper just off to the side of where we are building.

    I have my gaming PC hooked up in my camper but I don’t have internet. I can plug my phone into my PC and do “USB Tethering” which then gives my PC access to my phone’s data line.

    Well, this burns through my entire month’s allotment of cell data in just a few days and starts throttling down to 60kb/sec. Which is barely fast enough to connect to Steam.

    Which brings me to my point: I’m discovering just how many of my offline/Single player games cannot be played without some sort of internet connection.

    My Ubisoft Connect launcher and EA app both need to download updates to the launchers but my internet speed times out during the download and you really can’t even get the apps to launch in an offline mode when they need to download patches.

    I can’t play RDR2 or GTAV without connecting to Rockstar to prove that I have the right to play the game. Tons of shit like this is keeping me from playing about half the games I have downloaded and installed.

    I gotta wait till the 15th of every month when my cell data resets, then I will get another 50GB of cell data at decent enough speeds to download patches and game updates and verify ownership, etc.. but like I said, that 50GB will get burnt up in about a week or less..

    It’s incredible how we’ve gone from “The customer is always right” to such anti-consumer behavior and CEO worship..

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  • saulim

    what I find most ridiculous, is when an old game is discontinued but it has some online functions, the game shuts down and whoever bought it, fuck it.

    it had to be law, any game discontinued, the files should be made available for the community to continue the service.

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  • Dogwhisperer_210

    Aaaaand this is why I only buy games from GoG. Fuck DRM and fuck companies requiring us to install their shitty clients so I can play a game I bought somewhere else

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  • Warlordrex5

    “Everything is going to be amazing when every game is digital! You can just download the game and play! No need for a physical copy!” To be young and stupid. What happens when you have no internet? Servers go down? Or some other hiccup? You can’t access the game you “paid” for, unlike if you have a physical copy.

    However even then with new games now they all require some level of online connection. Gone are the days where you can just throw a disc in and (really)play whenever you want, so long as you have power and a screen. I feel old saying but these newer generations of games suck, and it’s not because they have shit graphics.

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  • druadh_

    Open Task Manager. Find EA Background service and delete it. It will cause the EA app to crash. Launch EA app again, and you should see your library and games should be playable.

    Note that I have to do this once a day to play an EA game.

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