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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."
Further proof that EA is the Microsoft of the video game industry: a policy that says "Fuck you, we're EA."
EA makes great games, most of which I have played through and through.
I'll always buy their games, if it interests me, as most of their titles have.
Most of you are silver spoon fed arrogant bastards who think EA owes you something.
They don't. They owe you NOTHING.
They make a game, it gets bought and it gets played regardless of your worthless self righteous point of view of the corporate dealings.
Theres a reason why the EA hate isn't mainstream. You people are a minority and no one gives a shit about your opinions. Theres a reason why DRM protected games aren't criticized on a mainstream level. No one gives a shit. The amount of people who were unable to play the game and had LEGALLY purchased it is so small, NO ONE GIVES A SHIT. The majority of outrage at DRM protected games comes from people who intended to download it illegally anyways.
It's hilarious seeing shit like "I'm done with them, their shoddy products, their DRM, and their bad attitude". No one gives a shit. Let me stress it again, NO ONE GIVES A SHIT.
EA games are typically best sellers BECAUSE THEY ARE GOOD GAMES. There is also a good reason why every single one of the opinions here aren't shared in the mainstream, NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOU.
EA sells games. People buy them or they don't. They raise to the best sellers list due to DEMAND for such good games. All the while, your complaints of their DRM protected products go unheard because, again, NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOU OR YOUR STUPID MINORITY OPINIONS.
It's really the BIGGER PICTURE that every one of you pseudo-intellectuals seem to ignore. Buy a game, play it, post on their forums constructively, criticize the quality of their product (GAMEPLAY), and move on. None of which will get you banned. What will get you banned is being a retard. Which most of you are very well seasoned at.
Anyone gets to decide what appropriate speech is on their own turf. There may not be legal consequences, but you can kick people out of your turf (real or online) whenever you want.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
clearly it should be "...gay dick up an elephant's cunt".
No, it shouldn't be. It really shouldn't be anything like that.
I wrote my first program at the age of six, and I still can't work out how this website works.
Children *are* immature - and I would be in favor of banning anyone under 25 as a general rule.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating