FIFA 23 is supposed to be released on the 30th of September, 2022 but early access was to be made to be available to the players who bought the Ultimate Edition of the game three days earlier. The people are facing this issue when they tried to launch the game on Steam. The game is unavailable on Steam, basically. You can check out complaints that have been reported by players on steam forums by clicking on this link. So in this article, we shall be discussing this issue and its status. Keep reading till the end to know all about it.
Why is FIFA 23 Early Access not Working on Steam?
It seems that there was a lack of communication between EA and Steam about the FIFA 23 Early Access. These are basically excuses as Steam already has the early access information posted on the page of FIFA 23 Ultimate Edition. Perhaps the worst part about all of this is that EA and Steam didn’t communicate well enough about FIFA 22’s early access last year either. In other words, Steam was unaware of the three days of early access granted to Ultimate Edition owners. The unprofessional part about all of this is that the customer service of both companies is blaming the other one.
The issue has been happening since yesterday and is still coming up for the players who bought FIFA 23 Ultimate Edition on Steam. The fact that the Ultimate Edition was specifically supposed to provide its buyers early access to the game for extra money, has the entire community enraged. Some of the people who are experiencing this bug have straight-up refunded the order and decided to buy the game on Origin. Others have decided to wait till Steam or EA comes up with a solution. For now, there is no official fix to this problem but there are a few things you can do while you wait for that.
At first, Steam posted that the game will be made available on 1st October, which made the players feel cheated. Pretty recently, they have made new information available on the early access of the game which you can check out by clicking on this link.
What Can you Do About It?
There are a couple of things you can do about this issue according to our research. Note that not all of these are solutions or workarounds. Keep reading till the end to find out what it is.
Sign a Petition
Players have taken to change.org to raise the request for Steam to compensate all the users who bought FIFA 23 Ultimate Edition PC for Early Access. They feel like they have been scammed by either Steam or EA, or maybe both, to pay extra for the Ultimate Edition that was supposed to provide them with early access to the game. As of this moment, the petition has been signed by 1,084 people. Click on this link to be redirected to the page where you can sign it too.
Restart Steam and Unpack
Some people have posted a fix that worked for them on the Steam forums. Simply, restart the Steam Client or login into your account again. After that, the game is supposed to successfully unpack and work. If it did not, try the next fix on our list.
Run the game as an Administrator
Before you follow our instructions, reinstall the game on Steam. After that, go to SteamLibrary>steamapps>common>FIFA 23> FIFA23.exe. Right-click on that and select run as administrator. This issue seemed to work for one person. There is no harm in giving it a go, if you are lucky, it may just work for you.
That was all the information that we could find on FIFA 23 early access not working on Steam. We shall be updating this article as soon as we find more data on this issue. Please click here to be directed to the FIFA 23 section of our page. Thanks for reading this article.