• stewie410@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Had the displeasure of using the modern EA app the other week – completely refuses to launch my copy of Jedi: Fallen Order in the foreground after a single play-session (Steam -> EA just doesn’t work for some people).

    • Mixel@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      My friend downloaded the friend pass of it takes two and ea just said you don’t own the game and refused to launch the game… Appearntly there’s a fix to download a free game and then it works again but wtf the support and moderates just closed the thread where this issue got raised the first time without giving a universal solution on what to try Tldr EA is the worst

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Willing to bet that the backend that they are using doesn’t actually give any useful error messages.

    • GarytheSnail@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Would they surface that to the user anyway? That’s something to log, not to tell the client that xyz service failed because of error 123.

      • Johanno@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        I hate this attitude. Yeah don’t give the user stacktraces on error but if you give it a meaningful headline and go in detail, experienced users will be able to deal with the problem if possible. If you go Microsoft-error of mystic ways you will have people Google “unexpected error e34566xce” and they will see that it has 10 possible reasons so you don’t know what even went wrong.