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Banned from the EA forums? Be prepared to lose access to ALL your PC games.
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Guess what. If you get banned from the EA forums, ALL of your EA published games ever GET LOCKED. You can’t access them. Apparently, not only do they ban you from the forums, but they ban you from accessing the games you PAID for.
What if some moderator goes off on a power trip? Does he seriously have the right to block access to software you legally purchased?
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jspa?threadID=449687&tstart=0&start=0
Check out the third post from “eaapocâ€:
“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 its 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 reccommend 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 its what we have to do.
Those banned will stay banned, but like most other internet services, its not that hard to create a new fake e-mail account. However, its a lot harder to get a new serial key
Avatars should be back within 2 weeks of the launch.
-APOCâ€
What if some moderator goes off on a power trip? Does he seriously have the right to block access to software you legally purchased?
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jspa?threadID=449687&tstart=0&start=0
Check out the third post from “eaapocâ€:
“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 its 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 reccommend 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 its what we have to do.
Those banned will stay banned, but like most other internet services, its not that hard to create a new fake e-mail account. However, its a lot harder to get a new serial key
Avatars should be back within 2 weeks of the launch.
-APOCâ€
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Edit: Being banned in one game banning you in all the other games is bullshit though.
That's going to be a lot of bans.
Final Fantasy XI -> Carbuncle - Samash
A status quo we need.
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The tone of that is incredibly rude and dickish. Especially the bolded part. "Yeah, it sucks, but it sucks more for you!"
Up until now, I was thinking EA was in general getting better and not being the 'evil' developer-eating-and-destroying machine they once were. Now they're taking a different direction and I don't know where exactly to put them aside from on the fence and teetering to each side.
I think revoking your access to all your legally purchased material for being an assdouche on the forums is pretty god damn far on the evil side
Well, the truth is, I don't even feel this is that "evil".
There's very little reason to be on the EA Forums in the first place, and if there is something you need from there then it's probably your own damn fault if you act like such a cock that you get banned while asking for technical support or something.
I just wanted to use the phrase "pro EA cock to gamer rectum".
Is that so wrong? Is it?
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Riccitiello needs to make some kind of announcement that this is crap and will be changed tomorrow.
Well yeah, but see, here's how I'm seeing it.
On the one hand, I think EA is really ballsy (in a "hey that's cool" way) for being a company not afraid to say, "We don't care to do or lose business with bad customers." When I hear some stories from retail hell where a manager finally makes this stance, I cheer them on because some people ARE bad customers.
THE PROBLEM however, which does make EA the bad guy here (evil as it were) is their definition of 'bad customer.' My understanding is that forum is tightly moderated like a bitch.
I should be able to go on their forums and spam every subforum with neonazi propaganda, and not lose access to my legally purchased games that I paid for with monies.
Or do those no longer exist in EA's world? Hang on, Dead Space is a recent one.
On the one hand, kinda harsh and might be bad publicity. On the other hand, if you're being that much of a problem on a forum, I'm going to guess that you'll be like that in Battlefield Bad Company's online...and frankly, if you are like that, I don't want to play around you. At all.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out, at the very least.
If the US have those.
Or you could be frustrated as all fuck that the game you just spent 60 bucks for dosnt work for shit and you make a tech support post thats a little heated.
Goodbye vidya games.
From the looks of the Gamestop thread, I don't think we do! We have Evander though. That counts right?
There's always small claims court. If EA doesn't send a lawyer they lose by default.
The reason it's worth posting is that I created the thing on September 9th. And I uninstalled Spore like 3 weeks ago.
Wait, what would you be losing here?
Huh. Who would have thought?
Do they give you an opinion to NOT upload your shit?
cause you should be able to name your shit what you want in a single player game.
Maybe I'm getting too sleepy, but this made me laugh way the hell out loud.
"THE TERMS OF USE HAVE BEEN UPDATED. PLEASE RE-READ AND ACCEPT BEFORE CONTINUING."
Watch.
Valve operate the exact same system with Steam.
Really? Banned on the forums loses you all your games?
damn
have you seen the EA forums?
the kind of people being banned there are exactly the people you don't want to see when playing games online.
sure, it's horribly unethical but we're all winning here
You're paying for a license to use software, forever. Chances are their EULA won't hold up for cunt.
I think you get banned from online games for griefing, and possibly your Steam games altogether for trying to do something like run a scam or cheat the system, but I don't think they do that for simply trolling the forums.
I mean, have you seen the Steam forums? XBL has some serious competition for whiny brats.
It might be slightly different. I know that when my Steam account was locked because of tampering I was blocked from the forums. Perhaps it is just help and support.
Either way, get your steam account banned for one game and all of them are locked.
People acting like this is some abhorrent injustice need to stop posting on the fucking EA forums and stop being so stupid to get banned there.
Really? I've never heard anyone mention it before. I guess that might go to show that forum banning for Steam is on the downlow, or nobody here is dumb enough to basically purposely get themselves banned.
Citation needed.
It's the principle of the matter, because it opens the doors for shit like this across the entire medium. Not to mention the chance to get a dickwad Moderator who feels like flexing his epeen by banning someone even if it isn't called for.
The help and support system for the steam forums allows you to use your steam account to expedite the process. I assume you can use your steam account for the rest of the forums as a login. in fact, with the steam community I would guess that is the case. either way, I'll go find out.
ostensibly the two systems arent too dissimilar.
Especially in a system where all bans are final, no matter how injust they are.