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EA are dumping the Origin name with their new “EA desktop app"What a catchy name!
What a catchy name!
Origin is, like, so last decade. A few weeks ago, Electronic Arts changed the name of Origin Access to EA Play. Turns out it’s not just the subscription service getting a shake-up however, oh no, they’re coming for the Origin software too. EA aren’t getting rid of their launcher, rather it’s suffering a far worse fate: it’s being renamed to the EA desktop app. How catchy.There seems to be some confusion over whether it’s called the EA desktop app (that’s according toGamesIndustry.biz) or the EA Desktop app (fromVentureBeat), but that’s not really the important bit. It isn’t just a rename EA has in store, you see, they’re giving their PC platform a big old overhaul to make it a bit more “streamlined”.In an interview with GI.biz, senior vice president Mike Blank said their intentions are “to create a more frictionless, fast, socially-oriented experience for our players”.Those are a bunch of buzzwords that essentially mean they’re making the launcher easier to navigate, with a nicer UI for things like your game library. They’re also putting in some helpful things like background desktop updates and a “better patching experience”, which yeah, would be very welcome, to be honest. It’s well annoying to open Origin only for it to immediately start updating games so you can’t play any of them.Origin first launched back in 2011, back when most of the posts our RPS ancestors wrote about it were questioning whyEA’s games were disappearing from Steam. Now, nine years later they’ve made a reurn, startingwith Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderlast year then following up withbatches of games.EA seem to be having a whale of a time with this rebranding and playing nice with other platforms at the moment. As well asrebranding Origin Access, they putthe basic subscription service on Steam, and have evenincluded it in Xbox Game Passat no extra cost.You can check out all the games included with EA Play overon their website. Nice games likeDragon Age: Inquisitionare on there. (Which I bought on Steam literal days before that Game Pass announcement. What an absolute chump.)
Origin is, like, so last decade. A few weeks ago, Electronic Arts changed the name of Origin Access to EA Play. Turns out it’s not just the subscription service getting a shake-up however, oh no, they’re coming for the Origin software too. EA aren’t getting rid of their launcher, rather it’s suffering a far worse fate: it’s being renamed to the EA desktop app. How catchy.There seems to be some confusion over whether it’s called the EA desktop app (that’s according toGamesIndustry.biz) or the EA Desktop app (fromVentureBeat), but that’s not really the important bit. It isn’t just a rename EA has in store, you see, they’re giving their PC platform a big old overhaul to make it a bit more “streamlined”.In an interview with GI.biz, senior vice president Mike Blank said their intentions are “to create a more frictionless, fast, socially-oriented experience for our players”.Those are a bunch of buzzwords that essentially mean they’re making the launcher easier to navigate, with a nicer UI for things like your game library. They’re also putting in some helpful things like background desktop updates and a “better patching experience”, which yeah, would be very welcome, to be honest. It’s well annoying to open Origin only for it to immediately start updating games so you can’t play any of them.Origin first launched back in 2011, back when most of the posts our RPS ancestors wrote about it were questioning whyEA’s games were disappearing from Steam. Now, nine years later they’ve made a reurn, startingwith Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderlast year then following up withbatches of games.EA seem to be having a whale of a time with this rebranding and playing nice with other platforms at the moment. As well asrebranding Origin Access, they putthe basic subscription service on Steam, and have evenincluded it in Xbox Game Passat no extra cost.You can check out all the games included with EA Play overon their website. Nice games likeDragon Age: Inquisitionare on there. (Which I bought on Steam literal days before that Game Pass announcement. What an absolute chump.)
Origin is, like, so last decade. A few weeks ago, Electronic Arts changed the name of Origin Access to EA Play. Turns out it’s not just the subscription service getting a shake-up however, oh no, they’re coming for the Origin software too. EA aren’t getting rid of their launcher, rather it’s suffering a far worse fate: it’s being renamed to the EA desktop app. How catchy.
There seems to be some confusion over whether it’s called the EA desktop app (that’s according toGamesIndustry.biz) or the EA Desktop app (fromVentureBeat), but that’s not really the important bit. It isn’t just a rename EA has in store, you see, they’re giving their PC platform a big old overhaul to make it a bit more “streamlined”.
In an interview with GI.biz, senior vice president Mike Blank said their intentions are “to create a more frictionless, fast, socially-oriented experience for our players”.
Those are a bunch of buzzwords that essentially mean they’re making the launcher easier to navigate, with a nicer UI for things like your game library. They’re also putting in some helpful things like background desktop updates and a “better patching experience”, which yeah, would be very welcome, to be honest. It’s well annoying to open Origin only for it to immediately start updating games so you can’t play any of them.
Origin first launched back in 2011, back when most of the posts our RPS ancestors wrote about it were questioning whyEA’s games were disappearing from Steam. Now, nine years later they’ve made a reurn, startingwith Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderlast year then following up withbatches of games.
EA seem to be having a whale of a time with this rebranding and playing nice with other platforms at the moment. As well asrebranding Origin Access, they putthe basic subscription service on Steam, and have evenincluded it in Xbox Game Passat no extra cost.
You can check out all the games included with EA Play overon their website. Nice games likeDragon Age: Inquisitionare on there. (Which I bought on Steam literal days before that Game Pass announcement. What an absolute chump.)
