What is a Public ID for EA?

An EA public ID is a unique identifier associated with your EA account profile to represent you across EA gaming platforms, communities, and services. It allows EA to recognize you as a player, connect you with friends, and persist your identity and progress across various games.

Finding and Viewing Your EA Public ID

Your EA public ID is easy to locate within your EA account details and player profile:

On EA‘s Website:

• Go to your EA Account Overview page
• Your public ID is listed under "Basic Info"

In EA Desktop or Mobile App:

• Click your profile icon
• Your public ID will display at the top of your player card

On Consoles (Xbox, PlayStation):

• Navigate to your player profile/card
• Your EA public ID sits at the top above your gamertag

You generally won‘t need to manually search for your ID, as it will be visible alongside your player name in EA Services.

Linking Accounts with Your Public ID

Your EA public ID enables you to link various gaming accounts to your overarching EA Account. This allows EA to connect your identity, friends, progress, and purchases across platforms.

As you can see, a majority of gamers with EA accounts are utilizing public IDs to connect console and PC gaming profiles. This enables valuable account portability, friends connections, and other benefits.

Features Enabled By Your Public ID

Beyond linking various gaming accounts, your EA public ID is crucial for:

Social

• Adding friends across platforms (Xbox, PlayStation, Steam etc.)
• Partying up in-game with your crossplay online friends

For example, your friend on PC (Origin ID) and you on Xbox can squad up in Apex Legends thanks to your public ID connections behind the scenes.

Progression Tracking

• Viewing lifetime game statistics across various titles
• Maintaining leaderboard ranks across PC and console

You can track your full history of matches played, kills, achievements etc. across EA franchises by signing in with your public ID.

Recognition

• Participating in forums, wikis under one persistent identity
• Recognition of identity on tournament streams, events

Your public ID lets communities and events associate your contributions across the EA gaming ecosystem to you.

Account Security

• Login verification and account recovery leveraging public ID details
• Tracking account access requests and changes

Changing Your EA Public ID

If you wish to change your public ID from your existing one:

• Go to EA Account settings
• Click "About Me" and then "Edit" next to your ID
• Enter a new ID and save changes

However, you can only change your EA public ID once every 72 hours. Choose wisely!

As you can see, interest in updating public IDs has been increasing significantly.

Public ID Usage Statistics & Trends

To showcase full view of public ID usage and linkage trends:

• Over 150 million EA public IDs have been created as of 2022
• Roughly 1 in 4 Playstation and Xbox gamers with EA titles have linked their console accounts to an EA Account using their public ID
• Public ID connections to Steam grew over 200% YoY in 2021, indicating growth in PC crossplay
  -Users with linked accounts have on average purchased 1-2 more titles annually

As these statistics show, public IDs serve an integral role in connecting accounts and facilitating online social play.

Why Public IDs Matter

EA public IDs help unlock an interconnected, cross-platform gaming experience:

• Play with the same friends on console and PC
• Maintain recognition of your gaming achievements across communities
• Enable portability of in-game progression and purchased items across devices
• Give players ownership over a persistent online identity

For online multiplayer titles like FIFA, Apex Legends, Battlefield and more – public IDs provide vital social linkages and consistency.