![]() ![]() Indeed, this is going to be the end for my iPad during the holidays. Oh boy.Īs TouchArcade reports, the iPad’s bigger screen will offer a proper board game experience (there are two versions of Monopoly out on the iPhone, but they’re not tally that great) and will allow for on-device multiplayer with 3 other people. The actual Monopoly, the real one – in fact, the game will be released as “Monopoly Classic for iPad” later this month. ![]() The problem is, anyway, those two addictions will soon merge into one because of Electronic Arts, which is bringing Monopoly to the iPad. They’re currently stuck somewhere around 810. Otherwise, they would play all night trying to break my girlfriend’s 912 points record at Fruit Ninja’s arcade mode. I can tell you this happens every week, on a regular basis, and the only advantage of the iPad is that the battery eventually dies. Either they play the board game, or they grab my beloved tablet to play Fruit Ninja HD. So, since we've uninstalled the Origin client/EA app, by removing and reinstalling the game, Steam will "pull in" the correct version of the extra software the game needs, configured the way it expects.My closest friends are addicted to two things in this world: Monopoly and my iPad. Steam automates this process and ensures everything a game needs is installed together with the game. In the past, before Steam and similar clients, if a game relied on other technologies to work correctly, like DirectX, in most cases, you had to install them manually. One of Steam's features we take for granted is how it "streamlines" game installations. However, instead of a long and convoluted process for ensuring that, it's easier to uninstall and reinstall the game you're trying to launch. And that means that even if Steam is working OK, you must ensure the same applies to the Origin/EA app, and you're logging in with the correct credentials. The problem we're dealing with is that the middle link of that chain, the EA app or Origin client, seems to fail to establish/authenticate your ownership of a game.īy using two separate clients, Steam and Origin/EA app, the game needs them both to "collaborate" to work correctly. ![]() Instead, in this scenario, there's a "chain" leading to the game's launch: Steam should launch the EA app or Origin, and then that, in turn, should launch the game. To clarify, we're not talking about being unable to sign in to Steam - for that, check our article on various ways to solve the issue. We can't tell for sure what's the reason for such issues, but purely by guessing while troubleshooting the problem, it seems to happen when there's a version conflict between the client's version an older game expected to find and the newer that's installed, or some local data corruption. Sometimes, though, what should be an automatic and straightforward process fails. When you try to launch an EA/Origin game from Steam, it might also need and launch that client separately, either for user authentication or as a means of protection (AKA: Digital Rights Management, or DRM for short). Why Might an EA/Origin Client Game Fail to Launch on Steam? The cause of the problem is a strange conflict that you can solve with some software juggling.
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