

However, even though people loved Origin, they had some complaints that all these years of software updated were unable to rectify. You can open the app purchase EA Games and play it.

It was launched in 2011 to compete with already existing Steam.

In this article, we are going to see EA Desktop vs EA Origin and the differences.ĮA Origin is one of the most loved gaming platforms. However, many users are skeptical about choosing between the two and want to know which one should they go for. Just the new formatting of the offerIDs should be enough to start games by URI.EA Desktop is a new platform that’s still in beta but because of smart and aggressive marketing by its manufacturer EA, it has gained a lot of hype in the gaming community. (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.
