The agent assembled a partial but accurate explanation of Origin's retirement and its replacement by the EA app, sourced from three EA pages (storefront, EA app FAQ, EA Play pricing). However, the site provided no direct comparison to competitors, no confirmation of the April 2025 shutdown date, and left the EA app's free/paid status unstated—gaps the agent noted transparently and did not fill from model memory.

• ›origin.com itself contains zero information: it immediately redirects (301) to EA's PC storefront with no mention of Origin, leaving a user or agent with no on-domain answer. The agent had to follow the redirect and infer the relationship from the EA app FAQ.
• ›EA's own pages confirm Origin was replaced by the EA app but do not publish the shutdown date (April 17, 2025)—the agent correctly sourced that only from TechPowerUp and Engadget search results, not EA sources, and flagged it as unverified on EA's site.
• ›EA Play pricing is clearly published on ea.com/ea-play ($5.99/month or $39.99/year for basic; $16.99/month or $119.99/year for Pro), but the site makes no comparison to Steam, Epic, Game Pass, or other alternatives—the agent correctly noted this as a site gap rather than inventing a comparison.
• ›The EA app page's FAQ states the app replaced Origin but does not confirm whether the app itself is free—a material gap the agent noted rather than assumed.
• ›The agent's discovery path relied entirely on following links from the storefront (steps 1→2) and then web search (step 3) to find the shutdown date; no site-internal navigation or index helped surface information about Origin specifically or site positioning relative to competitors.