Electronic Arts (EA) has brought a huge library of games to Steam, such as Dragon Age Inquisition, Need for Speed, Plants Versus Zombies, and several more. You can now buy these games on the Steam market. Previously, these were only available on Origin for those who played exclusively on PC, but many gamers preferred not to have to use another online platform to play their games. Even though EA games are on Steam, do you need an Origin account to play them?
For those who have been looking forward to having a digital storefront and one less launcher on your desktop, unfortunately you still have to rely on Origin. EA games are available on Steam and you can start them from your Steam library. However, when you go to start them and run the game, you need to create an Origin account and download a smaller size of the Origin launcher to use on your hardware.
While EA has opened its games to the public on Steam, you still need to make sure that you can sign in to an Origin account. You may need to visit EA's website to create an Original Account and connect it to your Steam. You don't need to download the entire Origin launcher or use it remotely for your games, but you do have to download a smaller version to your desktop to play games like Dragon Age Inquisition.
Some players on Steam have noted that their client has crashed while playing an EA game. It crashed shortly after launching from Steam, and it would crash shortly after booting from an original location. There might be a few bugs in the current version of the smaller Origin launcher, and this could be something EA fixes after the initial software release.
