EA’s PC launcher finally gets wishlisting support

EA is one of the few 3rd-party game publishers to still have their own PC launcher. Unfortunately, the app is rather barebones, with some major notable omissions. That said, EA appears to be getting with the times, as a wishlisting feature has finally been added to the publisher’s launcher.

As discovered by ResetEra user ‘nsilvias’, EA stealthily added a new wishlisting feature to its PC launcher as part of a recent update – 2 years on from the official launch of the revamped app.

With wishlisting primarily aiding in the sales of games, it is odd that it took EA this long to bring the functionality to its launcher.

Putting into consideration the fact that the EA app is used exclusively for the publisher’s own games, a wishlist feature isn’t quite as vital when compared to other PC launchers such as Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store.

Interestingly, EA’s Origin launcher (the precursor to the EA app) added wishlisting support all the way back in 2016, and so it is curious to see it having taken so long for the replacement app to get such functionality.

That said, considering the Epic Games Store took almost as long to add wishlists to its own store/launcher, expectations for such features are unfortunately quite low in today’s day and age.

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