Nope! Any games you've downloaded through Origin will be ready to launch through EA Desktop. Will my Origin games need to be re-downloaded on EA Desktop? Origin will remain live, so you’ll be free to toggle between the apps to continue playing the games you love in either experience. Will I be able to switch back to Origin once I download the beta app?

Just download the application from this link and login! As with any beta, it’s a work-in-progress and we hope you’ll join and share the good, the bad, and every experience in between so we can build a PC gaming platform that you’ll love.

The beta includes new features and overall improvements to power a faster, smarter, more connected desktop app. Just the new formatting of the offerIDs should be enough to start games by URI.Welcome to the EA Desktop beta! Click here to download!īuilt on feedback from players like you, the EA Desktop app is the newest iteration of our PC platform. (Edit: I realized I had forgotten to test just launching the URI through Windows - and that works, too, so it doesn't need to be explicitly passed to EALauncher.exe. I haven't figured out where those various IDs and parameters are being sourced from, however.

EALauncher.exe (in the same folder as the main EA Desktop executable) can be used to launch games (including automatically starting EA Desktop, if it's not running already) by passing an origin2:// URI to it, but the formatting of the offerIds parameter seems to have changed from Origin.įor example, from what I can tell the URI constructed by Playnite for Dead Space is origin2://game/launch/?offerIds=DR:105641400 (I might be wrong - this was from a glance at the code only), but the new URI used to launch via EA Desktop (stripped of everything that doesn't seem absolutely necessary - EA Desktop spits out an error with any less) is origin2://game/launch/?offerIds=1002975,1003943,1009227,1009228,deadspace_na,deadspace_eu1,deadspace_eu2,deadspace_eu3.

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