You’ll be easily recognizable with your custom unique ID. You will also be able to build your ultimate friends list by connecting your EA account to other platforms and services like Steam, Xbox and PlayStation. With automatic game downloads and background updates you can ensure that your games are ready to play when you are. With the new streamlined design you will easily find the games and content you’re looking for and discover your new favorite games. The EA app is our fastest and lightest PC client to date. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that the EA app has officially left its open beta phase and will soon replace Origin as our primary PC platform. So we set out to build EA’s next-generation PC game platform - a faster, more reliable, and more streamlined gaming experience - the best possible place for you to experience EA’s incredible games, services and content. If you want to get the update now, make sure you've opted-into Origin beta releases from the client's options menu, and restart it once you've made the change.For over 10 years we’ve welcomed millions of players into our Origin platform, we’ve listened to your feedback and acknowledge the limitations of this platform in a quickly evolving entertainment landscape. The store has been better integrated into the app, and now shows the list of available games much better, building on the same design changes in the library section.

The game library part has also been reorganised, and you can now see very clearly when a game is downloading or updating, and if you have any friends currently playing - right on the tile. The chat/friends list button have been moved to the bottom, and it presumably still opens a separate window. NeoGAF member SmartWaffles has received the update, and decided to take a couple of screenshots of the thing, and it looks a lot better than it does now.Īs you can see in the gallery below, the design is now based almost entirely on tiles, a bit similar to the Xbox One design but definitely less complex. The new changes are available to those who opt-in Origin's beta programme. The Origin client's dated UI is getting a big update.ĮA is currently testing a complete UI redesign for its Origin client on PC.

Origin launcher