Origin ID Being Renamed to 'EA Accounts' in Coming Weeks

Co-ordinate to EA, your Origin ID volition no longer exist chosen that, and will be renamed simply as your EA account.

EA wants to simplify their brand by renaming the Origin ID to just an EA Business relationship.

The change should become alive within the coming weeks, and is a mode for EA to better embody all of the services and different games you have. This centralizes the labeling with which all of their services are under.

Nada else is irresolute aside from the name, so annihilation you apply the Origin ID for will simply take the phrasing inverse to "Log-in with your EA business relationship," instead. Everything else volition be absolutely the same.

Originally EA released their EA Downloader in 2005 which was somewhen updated to exist EA Link and thus evolved into the modernistic day Origin that debuted in 2022. It's used as the sectional digital distribution platform for all of EA's starting time party published games. It's required for the Battleground serial and as well will be for Star Wars Battlefront. It'south been a very controversial platform nigh since it's inception.

Does anyone use Origin for whatever games that aren't exclusive to it?