I persisted with deletion and after another 10 minutes, I was told that it would take some additional time to delete my account but I didn’t need to stay on the chat while this was done.įinally, the representative asked me if I would like to share why I wanted to leave EA Origin. I began doing this while still Origin was still “preparing.” The representative, who was nice enough, followed his script to try to dissuade me from deleting my account and instead deactivate it. You have to chat with a representative instead of clicking a link after logging into your account.

I discovered that they make this as difficult as possible. While it was “preparing to update” as seen above, I began researching how to delete my EA Origin account. Now, I had invested about 20 minutes on updating software and resetting passwords. I only wanted to play the game for about 10 minutes before bed time. Then, Origin required a large update to Star Wars: Battlefront II before I could play the game. Since I hadn’t logged in for a few months, I had forgotten my password. Before logging in, Origin required a software update. Nevertheless, EA requires me to login to Origin before playing Star Wars: Battlefront II.

Everything regarding my game play experience takes place locally on my PC.

I don’t play against other players over the Internet. I play against computer-controlled adversaries. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was the above message from EA–“it’s all going according to plan” and the unending “preparing” to download a very large, required update for Star Wars: Battlefront II.įinding a few free minutes before bed, I wanted to fly the Millennium Falcon through the wreckage of blasted cruisers and obliterate as many TIE Fighters as possible. Yesterday, I deleted my EA Origin account, because I was fed up with how things were “going according to plan.” EA’s and other forced online game portals plan seems to be two fold: 1) require players to login to a service to play a local-instance, single-player video game, and 2) waste as much time and bandwidth resources of players as possible in the function of updating the front end portal and the games accessed via the portal by denying users the choice to update if and when they choose to do so.

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