Given that we have Dragon Age 1 and Dead Space 1, I'm kinda surprised that we don't at least have ME1 with Bring Down the Sky and Pinnacle Station already on GOG.

ME1 is my favourite out of the 3, so I'd love to have it.

Ubisoft, Rockstar and, get this, even CDPR (Red Launcher) do the same thing, so I doubt this will change anytime soon. That being said, Dead Space Remake on Steam does NOT use the EA app, which is very odd, so EA may still become less evil sooner than Ubisoft.

I installed Origin back in the day for Mass Effect 3 and Mass Effect 3 alone.

So they've taken the only game I bought for their shit online service away now? Incredible.

I'll play the Legendary Edition once they put it on GOG 75% off.

Thanks to their shit, I won't be able to play my versions of 1 / 2 / 3 any longer.

I have the EA-App installed and it still shows ME3 in my store ... I can't see the problem - other than the obvious DRM of course which was there before when it was called Origin.

Let's hope there isn't an additional one. Still not trying it out. I have disc versions of one and two, which won't cooperate with Windows 10 (at least not without emulators and diverse other kinks).

It still uses Denuvo, so I wouldn't go around putting EA on a pedestal just yet :).

EA doesn't know how to code a website to just let you download your games ? oh yes i forgot the hype wagon are the clients ....

The problem with this kind of app : you need one for EA, one for Ubisoft and some others for large companies

I understand they want to protect their games against piracy : but the most annoyed are the legit customers ....and btw those kind of app are much more related about social...

For each EA games, the End User License Agreement is always written in Caps : it's kinda scary somehow :X (and i don't speak about it's written ... it's worse)

So where is the difference between the EA app and every other DRM'd client?
If the complaint here is that it still is DRM'd I can understand it - but the OP sounds as if ME3 isn't playable anymore because EA changed from Origin (DRM) to EA App (DRM) and this is what I don't understand.

EA clients never got good reputation :
When the App was launched you wasn't able to change the install directory (where the OS is installed) - > i hope it has been fixed.

The complain (for me) is to have a multitude of clients on your computer. That's insane. And worse when you need to link one client with another app / client.

I can't tell for the OP though; i gave you my point of view.

This is the complaint
"Mass Effect 3 2012 cannot be played now because of the EA-APP. I have quit buying EA games period, the worst game company ever!! Please license ME3 2012 to save it!!"

So they quit buying EA games because of the EA App - BUT before the EA App they had Origin which was basically exactly the same. This is not about software that needs a client this is especially aimed against the EA App only. If the thread is really simply meant as a complaint against mandatory clients in general it should have worded differently. In any case: the game is NOT unplayable at all if you can live with the DRM and yes, of course it would be even better if GOG would bring the games here so that they won't need any client at all anymore.

Btw: Right now I can't remember if I was able to change the install directory of the app (can test if you like) but imo that does not matter much (since it is not that big) as long as you can install the actual games elsewhere.

Pardon me : i never touched a client just related to a game company (EA , Ubisoft and more)

but the major reason i refuse this kind of app is this : (from EA website)

"If I play my EA games on Steam or Epic, do I need to download the EA app?

The EA app is required in order to play EA games on PC. If you launch an EA title on Steam or Epic, we’ll provide guidance for installing the EA app (and uninstalling Origin if applicable) to ensure you can access & play your EA games."

Furthermore some recent games have a protection like DENUVO...

So its mean a triple check if you are legit customer ...seriously !!! (not for Mass Effect sure but it's getting worse and worse).

Regardless the OP : it's possible ME3 is unplayable for some reasons related to the App , and the game is from 2012 ... does EA gives a shit about a version which is kinda replaced by the Legendary Edition ?

Sometimes you take what you can get.

I'm greatful for the unintentional drm-free disc release of Mass Effect 1. Would buy a digital version of it on GOG in a heartbeat even if we couldn't get the whole trilogy.

It's understandable if the game could be played under Origin but not under the EA App. I own ME3 but have never played it, so I wouldn't know how ME3 runs, but I can confirm that in Origin Crysis 3 did run (and I had almost finished the game), yet in the EA App I couldn't get Crysis 3 to run on any PC or laptop of mine. The EA App is a far worse product than Origin ever was. Maybe, like Crysis 3, Mass Effect 3 did run in Origin but won't start in the EA App? For me, that would make the OP completely understandable if that's the case.

Here's the list I compiled of things the EA App did much worse than Origin in my experience:

• no option to open the App in my library, it always opens with an advertisement page
• no option to hide games
• big ugly icons, no option to pick icon size
• Crysis 3 won't start (it ran fine through Origin), citing 'a technical error'. No shit, it's technical! I thought it was psychological and the game was shy.
• the EA App asks what location I want to install it, I pick C:\Games yet ignores that and still installs in Program Files.

What I can't understand is EA said they say they launched the new app because they 'recognized the limitiations of this platfrom [Origin]'. And then went on to replace it by something far worse and far more limited.

You are confusing two things. The OP and what this thread is about and your own valid opinion about DRM and clients. I prefer to get my games on GOG so of course I like to have my games DRM-free as well ... if this is possible. This never was the case for ME3 though. Not since the EA App exists and not before ... it was always tied to a client. The client was just named "Origin" but was more or less the same as the EA App is now.

I do agree that mandatory clients and of course Denuvo (not just because of the checking but especially because of its influence on performance and the possibility of failing the check even if you are a legit owner) are bad things ... I dislike them as well ... but this was not the topic in this thread.

Your assumption that EA does not care about the 2012 version of ME3 is exactly that - an assumption only based on the fact that there exists a remastered version of the game.
I just tested your list. Most of the points I can confirm (though the first one simply points to the starting page and not an advertisement). The only point that works fine for me (I am testing it as I write this) is the option to chose the directory I want to install the game in. I am now downloading ME3 to see if it still runs.

Sorry for my poor wording. 'it' refers back to the EA App: the App asks what location I want to install the App in. But even though I choose to install the EA App in C:Games\EA App, it installs in Program Files (x86)\EA Desktop\EA Desktop, regardless of where I say the EA App should install ITSELF. Games go in C:\Games just fine.

Hmmm, is there any way to keep OLD Origin installed ALONG-SIDE of EA App?