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EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban
An anonymous reader writes "A post on the EA Support Forums from APOC, online community manager for Electronic Arts, outlines a new policy for their new forums, saying users who earn a ban based on their behavior in the forums will be locked out of all of the EA games tied to that account: 'Well, its actually going to be a bit nastier for those who get banned. Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you'd actually be banned from your other EA games as well since it's all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It's all one in the same, so I strongly recommend people play nice and act mature. All in all, we expect people to come on here and abide by our ToS. We hate banning people, it makes our lives a lot tougher, but it's what we have to do.'" Update: 10/31 12:36 GMT by T : Not so! Pandanapper writes "After a flood of complaints the EA community moderator APOC corrects his statement about how banning you from the forums bans you from your game access as well:"That said, the previous statement I made recently (that's being quoted on the blogs) was inaccurate and a mistake on my part. I had a misunderstanding with regards to our new upcoming forums and website and never meant to infer that if we ban or suspend you on the forums, you would be banned in-game as well. This is not correct, my mistake, my bad."
EA Guy 1: You see what Bungie, Valve, and many other game developers are doing? Linking games to gamer's internet forum accounts? Letting you see your stats, other peoples stats, game avatars, recently played games, and other cool stuff like that?
EA Guy 2: Um, yeah.
Guy 1: Well, we need to do something to top that. We need something that will really draw in our players and make them part of our community.
Guy 2: How about, participate in our forums, and earn the chance to be banned from your favorite game forever by a power-starved, 17 year-old forum mod.
Guy 1: Brilliant! Next issue, blood sample toolkits packaged with all our games.
Guy 2: ??????
Guy 1: No, it's not what you think. It's only for the initial install... and three times a month after that.
Don't hate the game, hate the player.
Now I will have ZERO problem pirating SPORE or any other EA title. In fact I wasn't going to bother with SPORE given the lackluster reviews, but I'm firing up Azurus as we speak to grab it just to spite the arrogant fuckers
There, fixed that for you. Oh, and by the way - you're banned (bittorrent-talk, cursing) Have fun playing solitaire, sucker!
Why can't all fpga/microcontroller manufacturers just release free optimizing compilers???
Not really, if you're that immature in the forums, you'll definitely be even more immature in an online game. I for one don't want my children exposed to such conduct. If people would just act like civilized humans, this wouldn't be such an issue. Thumbs up, EA.
21st Century Renaissance Man
...because when an independent game developer bans you from his forum, not only does he shut down your account, but he writes you into the game as a boss character. >:-)
1) Sell games
2) Ban players
3) !!!!!
4) PROFIT?????
I sure hope you're trolling. If you aren't, then allow me to give you this gold-plated certificate inviting you to keep your fucking kids off my internet.
I don't think Microsoft has ever banned anyone from using Windows for swearing on MSDN
I second that. But I think it would be better to stop fucking your kids at all and such... you know...
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Well, fancy injecting some sense and informed opinion?! How dare you sir!
While these modern murder simulators are training up my children to smite sinners down with a shotgun to cleanse the world for the second coming of the Lord, I certainly don't want them to see hateful speech like "piss", "shit", or "titty fucking arse bandits with their gay dick up an elephants cunt".
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
Judge: What did he do?
EA: Made a monster that looks like a dick!
Me: Objection! It looks nothing like a dick!
EA: Its clearly phallic!
Me: Thats a long neck, evolved for reaching high...
EA: Its sitting on a pair of balls!
Me: Theyre legs! It walks on them!
EA: HAIRY BALLS
Its worth it just to see a gaggle of lawyers on $400+ p/h trying to argue the phallic appearance of my one-eyed trouser monster.
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
Why is this modded insightful? Sheep aren't even considered citizens. They don't wear pants. They can't carry money. Maybe they could barter with wool if we weren't shearing them all the goddamn time. I don't even think sheep are playable characters in the Sims, what business would they have playing it?
"titty fucking arse bandits with their gay dick up an elephants cunt".
Congratulations, you just got Slasdot banned in australia
On the bright side, maybe I'll be able to get some work done now.
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Rule 9: There are no real rules about moderation either -- enjoy your ban
The Admin and the Engineer
I submit this as an example of why Slashdot is the greatest website on earth.
You should check out /b/ on 4chan. They'll have the picture.
So their sporting games will be more real!
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
Since you've removed the "being a dick" feature from the games, where is my discount to compensate for the game's diminished play value?
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
"titty fucking arse bandits with their gay dick up an elephants cunt" = +5 Insightful
I submit this as an example of why Slashdot is the greatest website on earth.
Under the circumstances, I thought it was quite an appropriate description of EA! (Whoops, there goes my Spore account.)
Its peanut butty jelly time!
Tag this article misunderstanding. The moderator to made the original post has since corrected himself.
Next we will kill the children.
Sorry, my bad. That should read free candy for everyone.
She made the willows dance
All EA games suck.
Ban me. Oops, wrong forum.