EPTForum moderation gone too far? (EA Forums) - Page 3
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Klondikebar
United States2227 Posts
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elmizzt
United States3309 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:37 Fruscainte wrote: So it's okay that if I say "fuck" on their forum, I'm banned from playing the games I bought permanently? You don't see an issue with that? If you don't want to get banned, don't break the rules. | ||
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:47 Klondikebar wrote: How exactly does EA think this is going to turn out? Why would we endure this draconian enforcement when ThePirateBay entertainment system offers the exact same games without DRM? Exactly. Until the bought version provides a better, more sustainable, and more fair service than the unbought version people will always revert to that methodology, unfortunately. I really feel bad for anyone under EA, because they're always going to be bumfucked by them. | ||
ZeromuS
Canada13410 Posts
But this is simple enough for some people: don't go back to EA forums, use a community forum instead I guess | ||
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FlamingForce
Netherlands701 Posts
However, after reading the article....Wow, just wow, really EA? Good thing I quit and uninstalled BF3 yesterday...It's a shitty game anyway. | ||
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:48 elmizzt wrote: If you don't want to get banned, don't break the rules. Let's just put camera's in everyone's houses, and if they commit a basic crime, send them to jail for the rest of their lives. I mean, if you got nothing to hide and you aren't breaking any rules -- who cares? Also, if you read the OP, people who aren't even breaking the rules are getting banned. Some random guy will say a curse word and involve your name in a post. You will then get banned for no reason for 72 hours, and if you went to support asking what just happened, why am I banned, you get permanently banned from your bought games -- online and offline -- forever. | ||
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
The only situation where using publisher forums is a good idea is with technical support issues. And whoever can not request technical assistance without swearing.. well i'm okay with these people getting banned, because they make the tech support guys lives hell. When buying a EA game that was most likely console-targeted and ported over to PC, everyone should know by now, that technical issues are to be expected and should be capable of asking for help rationally. But seriously, using publisher forums for anything other than tech support is just generally a bad idea, in pretty much every game i can think of. LoL forums? haha. Battle.net forums? haha. EA forums? can't be any better. So just stop using them and your accounts are safe ;P Of course, just because you can opt to not use the forums doesn't justify getting perma-banned for minor offenses. But imo, just not using such forums is the best way for everyone involved. Prevents you from getting caught up in such stuff with the added benefit of decreasing exposure to low-quality forums. | ||
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SirMilford
Australia1269 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:37 Fruscainte wrote: So it's okay that if I say "fuck" on their forum, I'm banned from playing the games I bought permanently? You don't see an issue with that? Honestly i dont see a problem, you would not get banned permanently for saying a single fuck. but if you are trolling/swearing/scamming/spamming on their forums, they will ban you. Just do not post on their forums. I think that lots of people in this thread misunderstand. The person that was permanently banned had a whole slew of spamming posts. It was just the wrong post that the moderator sent him. It was posted on the bf3 subreddit i believe. http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield3/comments/mptco/i_was_banned_from_battlelog_for_72_hours_for/c3332zk There is a good example! The guy claims to have been banned for a single thing but was actually a troll. | ||
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:51 MisterD wrote: Why would anyone even post on the EA forums? Is there anything worthwhile?. Also true. Anyone who goes onto the EA forums are probably not the brightest of the bunch. Nonetheless, this is rather silly. | ||
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elmizzt
United States3309 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:50 Fruscainte wrote: Let's just put camera's in everyone's houses, and if they commit a basic crime, send them to jail for the rest of their lives. I mean, if you got nothing to hide and you aren't breaking any rules -- who cares? Also, if you read the OP, people who aren't even breaking the rules are getting banned. Some random guy will say a curse word and involve your name in a post. You will then get banned for no reason for 72 hours, and if you went to support asking what just happened, why am I banned, you get permanently banned from your bought games -- online and offline -- forever. Putting a camera in everyone's house, and jailing them for basic crimes is completely different from selling a software license, and then revoking it when the TOS are broken lol. Also, if you read my post, it says "as long as they sort out the issues where the wrong person gets the ban". | ||
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:53 elmizzt wrote: Putting a camera in everyone's house, and jailing them for basic crimes is completely different from selling a software license, and then revoking it when the TOS are broken lol. Also, if you read my post, it says "as long as they sort out the issues where the wrong person gets the ban". I honestly don't know how anyone can defend permanently banning someone from a game for saying "fuck" on a completely unrelated online forum or going to customer support and trying to appeal a ban. But whatever. ._. | ||
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Klondikebar
United States2227 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:48 Fruscainte wrote: Exactly. Until the bought version provides a better, more sustainable, and more fair service than the unbought version people will always revert to that methodology, unfortunately. I really feel bad for anyone under EA, because they're always going to be bumfucked by them. Normally I'm not a huge fan of piracy but in this case, you give EA $60 and they can STILL arbitrarily take the game away from you?! Given that scenario I really can't say "no you shouldn't pirate." | ||
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SirMilford
Australia1269 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:50 Fruscainte wrote: Let's just put camera's in everyone's houses, and if they commit a basic crime, send them to jail for the rest of their lives. I mean, if you got nothing to hide and you aren't breaking any rules -- who cares? Also, if you read the OP, people who aren't even breaking the rules are getting banned. Some random guy will say a curse word and involve your name in a post. You will then get banned for no reason for 72 hours, and if you went to support asking what just happened, why am I banned, you get permanently banned from your bought games -- online and offline -- forever. Please post some proof. Anyone can make huge accusations but i refuse to believe that support has the power to ban your account. EA chat support has approximately 0 power as it is apparently, how would they suddenly gain enough to ban your account. Also proof about the forum post? like a link to the actual post. Edit: To the post above mine, That is stupid. Any game you buy currently on steam/origin/amazon downloader etc is just a licence. They can remove it at any stage for any reason as stated in their terms of service. | ||
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TheLaw
United States172 Posts
User was warned for this post | ||
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ArhK
France287 Posts
How can it be possible that you can't play a game that you fucking buy because you say something on website...?! I don't get it, and I am glad I don't play any EA games... | ||
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Chargelot
2275 Posts
Blizzard/Bethesda forever. Down with EA/Activision. | ||
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Roeder
Denmark735 Posts
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SirMilford
Australia1269 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:55 TheLaw wrote: Don't listen to, elmizzt, hes a troll. I don't think anybody could be that dumb otherwise. The issue here is people are getting banned for something they said on forums. I'm all for banning forum trolls on ANY forum. But banning from games from something said on a forum isn't right at all. Have you got a reason to back that up with? If you are posting on your account with your games on it after agreeing to their rules and get banned. You should lose access to the account. Just consider it punishment. If the punishment is to harsh is to hard to call. You never see all the details in these cases. For example, would you have the same reaction if a scammer bought bf3 and started to scam the forums. Would you then want him to be able to log onto his account and attempt to spam through that? There is a line that has to be drawn in terms of punishments but I personally do believe that banning access should be considered a valid punishment. | ||
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Nizaris
Belgium2230 Posts
On December 06 2011 00:56 Chargelot wrote: This is why I don't support production companies who force game designers to copy and paste, and then proceed to fuck over their customers by releasing shitty games AND banning them from playing. Blizzard/Bethesda forever. Down with EA/Activision. Bethesda needs to hire some decent coders. way too many bugs. | ||
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