Origin is soon changing its name to “EA Desktop App”

Origin isn’t only changing it’s subscription name from Origin Access to EA Play and bringing a whole new program design to the table.

In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz EA’s SVP Mike Blank has confirmed that Origin will change its brand and name to “EA Desktop App” for a more streamlined experience. Not only that but he promises that the new EA Desktop App will offer a faster, frictionless, more socially-oriented experience for the players.

Hear what he has to say in a report from GamesIndustry.biz below:

Today, EA has yet another piece of interconnected news to share: it’s rebranding its Origin desktop app to simply be called the EA desktop app, alongside giving its PC platform a visual refresh.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, EA SVP, strategic growth Mike Blank says the overhaul is intended “to create a more frictionless, fast, socially-oriented experience for our players, where it becomes the best place for them to connect with the people they want to play with in the games they want to play.”

That means making the app an overall more streamlined experience involving fewer clicks to navigate, along with other details such as desktop background updates, a “better patching experience,” and UI updates to login, registration, and game libraries to make them clearer and easy to understand quickly.

The rebranding itself, Blank says, ties in with a broader company strategy that EA has been executing visibly the last several months with all its aforementioned branding and EA Play-connected changes. EA, he says, wants to better enable player choice in regards to what platform they play EA games on, prioritize cross-platform play, and generally break down barriers to having access to EA games.

“All of that is signaled by creating a common and consistent brand that is centered around EA and what EA stands for,” Blank says. “And what signals it is this inflection about how EA stands for bringing your players together around the games they want to play on the platforms they want to play on. So yeah, it’s not just a name change. It really signals an ethos that is critically important to us and that we know that’s important to our players.”

Blank wasn’t just involved with the EA desktop app. He leads the team at EA that has been heavily involved with all of the recent changes, both related to branding and to game connectivity and access. Part of the way Blank’s team is pursuing its goals lately is through putting more EA games in more places, and implementing cross-platform play for as many as possible.