Seriously EA? Fuck you.

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

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.

-APOC

http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jspa?threadID=449687&tstart=0&start=0

Tenth post down.

You read that right. If you're banned from EA's forums, than you're also banned from playing any of their games online, or any of the games that require online verification offline (i.e. Spore).

[merc]

http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jspa?threadID=449687&tstart=0&start=0

Tenth post down.

You read that right. If you're banned from EA's forums, than you're also banned from playing any of their games online, or any of the games that require online verification offline (i.e. Spore).

owned.. why the fuck are you at the EA forum play the games and stfu

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

owned.. why the fuck are you at the EA forum play the games and stfu

Why the fuck do you think I'm posting on the EA forums despite me never mentioning that I do or don't post on the EA forums?

I don't purchase EA's games. Haven't for several years now.

[MrBBonz]

I actually wish more developers would adopt this model for banning. If you act like a jackass on the forums, logic would dictate that you would also act that way within the game.

We need to get rid of all the "internet badasses" anyways...

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

I actually wish more developers would adopt this model for banning. If you act like a jackass on the forums, logic would dictate that you would also act that way within the game.

We need to get rid of all the "internet badasses" anyways...

You mean, a model where after you pay sixty bucks for a game, you can never play it because you got banned from a forum when you made a pissed off post about having trouble installing the game?

Let's do this with other electronics as well. Make a post on a Sony forum that they don't like and decide to ban you for? Now you can't use your television or DvD player.

The problem is that this is borderline on legality. They're really pushing the envelope here, and they're getting away with it. Also, if you note, "Those banned will stay banned", means that if a dickhead moderator decides to ban someone for saying something that he doesn't like, that person loses the ability to play hundreds of dollars worth of games with no way of changing that.

[Total Madman]

EA pissing everybody off? So, what's new?

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

Well, they were getting kinda cool for a short time. I was almost about to give them a second chance. I can accept a business model that's ruthless, it's business after all, they're trying to make money. But one that blatantly shits on their customers? They're basically saying "We can take your money, give you a broken product, and tell you to go fuck yourself. Go ahead, do something about it. Nya nya!"

[Shackelford]

Just a rumor

Sounds like someone made quite a mistake when they told all of Electronic Arts gamers that if they got banned in the EA forums they'd be banned from playing their games as well.

That's right: Totally not true, despite what EA's Command and Conquer manager told folks on Oct. 18. As EAAPOC himself said at 3 a.m. this morning in a new post on the forums it was "inaccurate and a mistake on my part."

EA spokeswoman Mariam Sughayer was kind enough to walk us through EA's banning rules for us as well:

“Players who have been banned from EA Forums are not automatically banned from online access to their other EA games.”

“Posting in EA Forums is enabled by an EA Nucleus account — but access to the forums and access to the games are separate.

“Players can be banned if they breach the Terms of Service or Code of Conduct in a forum, game or service. Each forum, game and service is managed independently by customer support representatives responsible for that specific forum, game or service.”

So, for a second time now, you can only lose access to a game if you break the game's terms of service or code of conduct. True that can happen through acting out in a forum, but it would be independent from any forum banning.

Read More: EA Developing Game Based On Dante's Inferno, Electronic Arts Lays Off Six Hundred, Backtalk in EA's Forums, Get Banned From Your Games?, EA Sports To Challenge Wii Fit With "More Western Approach To Fitness"


Source: http://kotaku.com/5072192/ea-getting-banned-in-forums-does-not-get-you-banned-in-our-games

I like EA. I never really had a huge problem with them before, some of their games had bugs and they rehash stuff but every company does that. Look at Capcom. There's still a SF2 coming out and RE4 has had 4 ports in 3 years. Plus EA made Dead Space. I love Dead Space

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

Good news, thanks for clearing that up.

[diablo234]

see now? you done hurting EA's feeling without proof, whats done is done, shame on you

[AsHopeDies]

Since when does not being able to play online make a game inoperable?

[handsock]

I don't see why people have personal vendetta's @ video games for banning them. They're doing you fat lazy fucks a favor.

[No0n3]

Since when does not being able to play online make a game inoperable?

When they have copy protection that checks online.

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

see now? you done hurting EA's feeling without proof, whats done is done, shame on you

I provided a link, and the quote of what the moderator on EA's forum said. I'd say that's a pretty hefty piece of evidence.

Since when does not being able to play online make a game inoperable?

See Spore. It's a single player game, but validates online each time you start it up. You can not play it without internet connection despite the fact that it's single player.

I don't see why people have personal vendetta's @ video games for banning them. They're doing you fat lazy fucks a favor.

5'10" and 140 lbs here. You?

[AsHopeDies]

When they have copy protection that checks online.

See Spore. It's a single player game, but validates online each time you start it up. You can not play it without internet connection despite the fact that it's single player.

Well yeah, that would suck.

[handsock]

5'10" and 140 lbs here. You?
6'2" and 184.
....you're still fat.

[rand0m]

5'10" and 140 lbs here. You?

hahahah

Imperial units ... :)

[PossumLuver]

Who cares, its not like anyone uses those forums anyway, stop being ignorant.

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

6'2" and 184.
....you're still fat.

Well, I can't argue with that.

[Papero]

You mean, a model where after you pay sixty bucks for a game, you can never play it because you got banned from a forum when you made a pissed off post about having trouble installing the game?.

They wouldn't ban you for making a mature constructive complaint.

You can express your distaste for how a game is running in more ways then "YOU MOTHERFUCKERS, YOU'RE GAME IS BUGGY, FUCK YOU FIX IT!".

[kazuri]

They should do this to keep people from acting like morons.

[IGneois]

i like that deer hunting game that ea made like 10 years ago.

[Lividum]

I actually wish more developers would adopt this model for banning. If you act like a jackass on the forums, logic would dictate that you would also act that way within the game.

We need to get rid of all the "internet badasses" anyways...

Say that to my face fucker, not online, see what happens.

[handsock]

Say that to my face fucker, not online, see what happens.

*in a high pitched badass voice*

YEAAAAAAAAH, WHAT LIVI SAID! WE'LL MURDOLIZE YA!

[WiseBobo]

Elect me president and I will trade bust EA.

Say that to my face fucker, not online, see what happens.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3439/saytoface2ns0.jpg