MarkoH01: 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.

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

DubConqueror: There's info to be found on workarounds, that are discussed in this topic on the EA Answers HQ website (that's the name of the EA Help Forum), but in that topic someone made a post last month, that EA is shutting down the Origin services, making the workaround fail:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Why-am-I-getting-forced-to-install-EA-App/m-p/12675952/highlight/true#M6316

I haven't delved into the later workarounds as they required activating user-scripts found on the internet and I don't trust that.

DyNaer: I won't deny i probably mixed some points If you can access to your game without trouble and the client is just like a dumbed down version of a browser for downloading your game fine. But if customers require to contact a company because of the said client...those are certainly not happy.

DyNaer: And the OP only said the game doesn't work with the new app and that's all : it leads to many interpretations

DyNaer: I told in this thread i played the first two on PC (physical copy) , but not the the third one because of EA and their "madness" to control more than necessary anything. (sorry if i mix something again :-) )

DyNaer: The conclusion : is for some legit customers who bough the game and ain't no more able to play it atm because of the new client : it makes those angry .

StingingVelvet: The EA App sucks (as did Origin) but none of the ME games have an issue installing and playing on Windows 10 or 11. People run into issues and then blame the OS, but usually that's not their actual problem. So most of this thread discussion is based on FUD, basically.

That said, God willing these games (and Dragon Age 2 and 3) will be freed from the EA App someday.

DubConqueror: 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.

StingingVelvet: The EA App sucks (as did Origin) but none of the ME games have an issue installing and playing on Windows 10 or 11. People run into issues and then blame the OS, but usually that's not their actual problem. So most of this thread discussion is based on FUD, basically.

StingingVelvet: That said, God willing these games (and Dragon Age 2 and 3) will be freed from the EA App someday.