Can you pass on your EA App game library when you die?
Electronic Arts' terms forfeit EA App game library at death.
Protecting EA App game library while the account is active
No beneficiary designation, game library can only be redeemed, not transferred, and 6-step plan.
How to protect your EA App game library while you are alive →Someone died. Handling EA App game library after a death
Game library are forfeited under the official terms, 7-step process, and 5 required documents.
What happens to EA App game library when someone dies →The EA app (which replaced Origin) is Electronic Arts’ PC game launcher and store. An EA Account holds purchased games, expansions, downloadable content and EA Virtual Currency, plus any EA Play membership and any EA Wallet balance funded by redeemed EA gift cards.
Under Electronic Arts' terms, EA App game library is forfeited when the account holder dies. Electronic Arts allows no lifetime transfer of game library; the account holder can only redeem them.
What happens to EA App at death
- Forfeited at death
The EA Services are licensed, not sold, under a personal, non-transferable license, and a purchased EA PC Game is tied to one EA Account. The game library does not pass to an heir: the license is personal and ends with the account.1
Naming who acts after a death
- Designation
There is no beneficiary designation, and no authorized-user or beneficiary mechanism for the game library.1
Sources1
- 1.EA User Agreement, Last Updated: May 14, 2026
Electronic Arts publishes no process specific to a deceased person's account; a written request goes in through Electronic Arts' support ticket system. There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on an EA App account.
Sources
Data sourced from Electronic Arts Inc. primary sources (11 pages reviewed). How we research.
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