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On December 06 2011 00:23 bonifaceviii wrote:
You know, banning people in-game for shitty forum posts on the company's website doesn't seem like a bad idea in theory.
In practice, though, I'm sure it's a nightmare.
Tbh it's a good step to reduce the amount of garbage on forums. People might be less inclined to troll forum posts and write rage swearing posts if it affected their actual gaming. But permanent bans from the game because of something you said on the forums should never come.
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And still EA is whining about piracy.
Well at least now i know where i'll be getting my EA games from
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On December 06 2011 08:16 SirMilford wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2011 07:43 Klondikebar wrote:On December 06 2011 07:39 Trashie wrote:
I don't see a problem with banning people ingame aswell as forum, based on their forum behavior. If you act like a dick, just to be a dick, just because you can - you deserve it.. Deal with the consequences, dick.
EAs other practices? Horrible. Lets hope they die out soon. Do you see a problem with EA banning people who were simply mentioned in someone else's posts? Do you see a problem with them denying access to the single player game when they have said that forum bans would not affect Origin accounts? Did you even read the OP? The OP just showed a flaw in the system. Obviously that is not the moderation that EA is after, ifact i would argue that this probably happens more than one would expect! Except it is dealt with faster and quiter. They will update their software and the problem will go away. No honestly i do not, why are you being a dick to begin with? If you are posting on EA's forum shitting all over other people and their product, I personally do not see a problem with them withdrawing access to your account.
I have issue when their forum that bans for posting with swear words is hitting all sorts of people. For example, if you posted this post in which you're defending EA's system, on EA's board, you'd likely to be banned from your account because you used the word "dick" and the word "shitting". This is several levels of stupid - why would you ever link a word filter to an automated ban system, then link that system to account access? At that point you're discouraging any interaction at all on your message boards for fear of losing all the games you legitimately purchased.
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They're not going too far, they're breaking the law.
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Don't buy EA games, it's that simple. I was close to buying BF3; heard good things about it. But the game is made by EA and my dislike for them bars me from buying any of their products. Simple.
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Really pathetic situation from EA. Banning from multiplayer is a stretch that I could follow, but to follow up with a ban from the single player game? Seriously? Have some pride, EA. You already have the guy's money.
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The forum bans don't really bother me, its the fact that people are being locked out of their games via a bad forum post. This is entirely unacceptable.
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Good thing I don't play EA games.
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I play EA games, but I don't go on their forums, its a waste of time if you want to help.
The only thing that you can do on EA forums is troll, and I guess that is why EA is doing this, to stop the trolling which started because EA forums is a horrible community to begin with.
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On December 06 2011 05:56 Valashu wrote:
EA somehow manages to buy out some good developers but really, EA is in it for the money and it's a battle between EA and Ubisoft versus companies like Valve imo.
We'll see what happens.
Except EA acquires/partners with companies like Bioware that create massive hits, fun enough for people to forgive their policies and buy the game anyway.
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On December 06 2011 04:07 Klondikebar wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2011 04:04 Probe1 wrote:
But this actually seems worse than Bnet 0.2 Well yes, this is downright thievery. This is the culmination of "you're only paying for a license." When you do not actually own the game for which you paid, the publisher can simply take it away whenever they want. Tons of people said they'd never be that stupid. But here we are. EA is just taking away your game because you never actually owned it in the first place.
I thought about how to respond to your post a lot and I still don't have anything further to say. EA is brazenly shafting their customers and if it was a perfect world- EA would be out of business years ago for being a shark of the video games industry.
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I have nothing positive to say and no reason to post on this. EA is way way in the wrong here and there isn't anything their customers can do. Almost makes me want to cry for legislation preventing companies from permanently 'leasing' their games to customers that think they own it.
sigh. Like I said, I have nothing positive or contributory to say.
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On December 06 2011 00:34 Fruscainte wrote:
So someone else curses in a post and mentions your name, you get banned, you go to support to appeal, you get permanently banned and locked out of all your games forever.
What in the actual fuck EA.
And a jolly pirate was born that day...
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I hate EA, but their name on the box of Star Wars: The Old Republic will not stop be from buying that shit! KOTOR 3 IS FINALLY HERE...in mmo form 
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I have a gravatar image that some may find offensive. But its for an 18 cert game, so EA ban me and I would actually complain to however the relevant complaints commission is, and undoubtedly have my account magically restored. EA did this with my BFBC2 account as well, although I never used the forums or had any offensive language or material while I played. EA go to far with the whole strict control thing, we need stricter control on what these companies can do, as at the end of the day people like Arron who support that company and cash out for games are getting their items they bought removed for little to no reason.
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On December 06 2011 09:20 GrapeApe wrote:I hate EA, but their name on the box of Star Wars: The Old Republic will not stop be from buying that shit! KOTOR 3 IS FINALLY HERE...in mmo form
And this is why EA will keep shitting all over you.
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On December 06 2011 09:20 Myles wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2011 09:20 GrapeApe wrote:I hate EA, but their name on the box of Star Wars: The Old Republic will not stop be from buying that shit! KOTOR 3 IS FINALLY HERE...in mmo form And this is why EA will keep shitting all over you.
As long as the product is worth it though...
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On December 06 2011 09:20 Myles wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2011 09:20 GrapeApe wrote:I hate EA, but their name on the box of Star Wars: The Old Republic will not stop be from buying that shit! KOTOR 3 IS FINALLY HERE...in mmo form And this is why EA will keep shitting all over you.
I believe they have said that SWTOR will not require you to go through Origin. What's dumb is that could have been a blatant lie and we won't know until release day.
And I'm curious, what happens when you use a bad word in the game, someone reports you, and you get permabanned from SWTOR?
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So... they ban someone from their forums because they or someone using their name cussed?
Ehhh, ok. That makes complete sense. Hi, my name is R1CH, and fuck those motherfucking faggots. If TL used that logic, me saying that would get a forum admin banned and unable to play any part of SC2 without buying another account.
Honestly though, I don't like EA as a company. Sure, they're better than Activision, though not Blizzard, when it comes to the products, but EA and Activision are both guilty of being too sensitive in cases like this.
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BF3 is such a magnificent game... marred terribly by the shitstorm that is Origin. If only Valve could somehow buy out EA and put Steam in place of origin, that would be like the second coming of christ
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On December 06 2011 09:24 Klondikebar wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2011 09:20 Myles wrote:On December 06 2011 09:20 GrapeApe wrote:I hate EA, but their name on the box of Star Wars: The Old Republic will not stop be from buying that shit! KOTOR 3 IS FINALLY HERE...in mmo form And this is why EA will keep shitting all over you. I believe they have said that SWTOR will not require you to go through Origin. What's dumb is that could have been a blatant lie and we won't know until release day. And I'm curious, what happens when you use a bad word in the game, someone reports you, and you get permabanned from SWTOR?
Ubisoft that From Dust was not going to have any DRM whatsoever, and it was the most DRM intrusive game of the last decade. I would take their word with a grain of salt, I would not be surprised if SWTOR took Origin.
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