u/beeg_carl

Most of my issues now affect steam os the most but I know I'm definitely not alone when it comes to hating on the EA app and I thought I'd share every issue I've ever had with it.

At first my only major gripe was no offline mode from the switch from origin to the EA app and now every time you boot up a game it requires internet. Fuck anyone on PC handhelds or laptops I guess.

They made the switch back when I was in high school and couldn't play the games I paid for on my personal laptop during lunch because the school byod network blocked all gaming related urls which meant also the EA servers they connected to.

After I graduated like a year later I bought a steam deck only to be affected again by this because I don't have an Internet connection at work or on road trips. Most of the time my signal is not good enough for a hot spot just to connect for a few seconds booting into a game. Which I will also have to do again if I want to play something else and go back to that game each and every single time.

Genuinely who the fuck thought this was a good idea.

Then it had more issues the longer we've had it.

Older games will straight up randomly ask for origin activation because they couldn't bother to make the EA app work properly with it. It's so random and rare but it's still a major annoyance especially on steam os in game mode.

The EA app will just randomly decide one day to have no audio on any games unless you're in desktop mode, will decide during updates if games boot anymore because of a change in default proton settings, or will straight up make you sign back in which is the biggest pain in the fucking ass on steam deck. My accounts are linked why the fuck do I need to pull out my phone to check an email just to sign in, type it out, or reconnect my steamid??? I paid for my shit and just want to play my games on steam that literally do not have issues except with the shitty launcher that never works properly.

Today I finally got NFS 2015 to run again after literally 2 months of troubleshooting because steam got rid of the proton version it originally ran on after a few updates. The game would literally not boot anymore because of the bumfuck retarded ass launcher until today. I decided to install frostymodmanager because the handling in the game is garbage and I also wanted to get rid of all the fx and rain so it can look cleaner and prettier on low settings.

THEN when I go to launch the freaking game it won't because it literally wants origin so I had to spend 2 hours looking for ways to force the stupid game just to launch with the EA properly only to run into stupid ass roadblock after roadblock doing Linux proton patches and bullshit because even frostyfix won't work because it wants me to install Microsoft runtimes. Ok so I use proton tricks to do it and it still doesn't fucking work.

Oh my fucking God I hate Linux so fucking much and the EA launcher. They literally have steam verified titles and I question them because their stupid launcher was not made with steam os or with other Linux distros in mind.

Genuinely who the fuck even asked for this launcher over origin when origin worked fine... Scratch that who the fuck asked for a middle man between steam DRM and any EA title. This shit genuinely needs to stop especially with other companies like Activision, Rockstar, and Sony. At least with personal experience the rockstar launcher actually fucking works and has an offline mode.

God forbid I pay for my games instead of pirating.

Genuinely the EA app is such cancer I would literally blame it on the death of this franchise because who the hell would buy anything except need for speed. Another slop sports title?

Genuinely why the hell do I need to pirate my own games and sync saves with my bought version just to avoid the launcher.

The worst part is the only game I cannot pirate is NFS 2015 because it's always online bullshit.

I haven't done that but it seems like I need to just to play what I paid for.

I've had the opportunity for a while to monetize my channel for the first time since I created it when I was 16 in highschool a few years ago.

I got denied of course and need to reappeal/reapply after deleting and unlisting copywritten content or gameplay recordings with licensed music. (Why????? Must??? I???? Suffer????)

I'm on hard times right now with my living situation and need to make money anywhere and everywhere I can even with something small like my channel to build up my income and savings. I won't get into the nitty gritty but I don't live in a stable home and live and work in an area way too expensive for me I never chose to be in.

I never plan on becoming a full time YouTuber over an actual job but I honestly don't have the time to make videos that'll typically get a decent amount of views. I know how to make a video reach 1k views easily but the problem with doing so is it requires a lot of voice work I'm too drained to do along with tedious editing I don't always enjoy doing like I used to.

I basically abandoned my channel for about a year to work full time and uploaded random stuff in a similar way I used to when I was 16 and my channel gained almost 200 more subs while I was gone because of ancient videos still gaining views.

But I really want to get back in and work hard to revive what I left neglected, get more views, and make quality content again with people who will enjoy it enough to subscribe.

I've had some crazy ideas for new videos to follow a certain trend I've been seeing that are really fun to make and entertaining to watch especially with friends. Stuff with unscrollable controversial meme thumbnails and titles with insane context.

I wonder if anyone has ever been in my situation before and what I can do to keep going.

I was on a clear cut path to 1,000 Subs at the rate I was going before I left and now I'm at 650.

YouTube told me I can qualify to get paid and it's not a lot, especially with social blade's estimates but it's still something for me.

I have almost every resource I need to run my YouTube channel minus an editor that can keep up. (I use openshot and really need something like Sony Vegas which I can't afford)

I have a fast enough gaming PC, multiple game consoles, and a capture card with multiple cameras and a USB microphone with a boom arm clamped to my desk.

My main issue is myself and time as well as the resilience needed to push forward.

Would it be a great idea to have my friends involved in the making of my videos to help with production?

I try to keep my personal life and my YouTube completely separate and my friends may not have the same vision, ideas of quality or editing, etc.

It may not seem like it but I am definitely into very niche stuff when it comes to like emulation and game modding almost all my friends except online ones understand at all which my channel is practically built on and from.

What do you guys think I should do?

Every time I use my computer I want to fall asleep and stay there for hours practically doing nothing. Making videos is really unproductive for me from my channel's standpoint and I don't know if this is a common thing for anyone else who's done YouTube before.

I probably waste more time watching something I've made 100s of times compared to actually making something.

Maybe it keeps me sharp, maybe it doesn't I don't know.

Could either be a pride or genuine autistic thing that I need to be checked on.

But please let me know maybe what I should try moving forward and what my best avenue to promote videos would be besides these types of subs.

I used to use stuff like rapidtags too which made a difference, however unfortunately they ruined these sites to where barely give you 2 tags and you need an account and they want you to pay a subscription.