EA's Origin App is shutting down and an arguably worse alternative has taken its place

EA Shutting Down Origin on April 17, 2025 – Here’s the Rundown

EA Origin will be phased out in April 2025. Make the switch to the EA app now to avoid losing access to your game library.

EA Origin is shutting down. Here's how to keep all your games safe

Electronic Arts is one of the most notable publishers in the video games industry. Not only does it own extremely successful franchises like EA Sports FC, The Sims, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age, the company also plays a key role in setting trends in the games market. For a long time, EA games could only be purchased, downloaded, and played digitally via EA Origin (at least on PCs). Eventually, some titles became available on Steam. Now, EA is alt…

EA Is Stopping Support For 32Bit Systems

Origin is shutting down this April, and with that all support for 32bit Games comes to an end. Over the last couple of years we followed closely as Electronic Arts rebranded its popular video game launcher app Origin to EA App. From 2020 when they announced the rebrand, EA slowly started the rollout across different […] The post EA Is Stopping Support For 32bit Systems appeared first on Sims Community.

EA is shutting down Origin on PC

It was in 2011 that EA launched the PC game store Origin, a rival to Steam. But despite the company having several heavy titles of its own, it doesn't seem to have been quite the success it hoped for, and in 2020 the company returned to Steam again, while the retirement of Origin began. Now, it is announced via the support page that the last remnant of Origin will disappear shortly, and that those who still have their games there must move ever…