EA worse than Steam and Ubi!!!

[JG52Krupi]

Check this out!!!

"There's a thread on the BioWare Social Network started by someone who had to create a new account to post there, because his original account is still enduring a 72-hour suspension for what was deemed an inappropriate forum post (he says he agrees he deserved the forum suspension for posting "Have you sold your souls to the EA devil?"). In a surprising turn, he says that besides keeping him from being able to post to the forums, the temporary ban is preventing him from activating his copy of Dragon Age II, which, as noted on Kotaku (thanks nin), is especially odd, since this is a single-player game. There was a similar story in 2008 that resulted in EA explicitly denying that forum offenders were being banned from games, but this thread concludes with a moderator explaining that under certain circumstances, an EA forum ban can indeed prevent access to your games:
Please review the EA Community Terms of Service, particularly sections #9 and #11. There are two levels of enforcement here:

1. BioWare community bans are forum-only and can be for as little as 24 hours. These bans should have no effect on your game, only your ability to use all the features of this website/community. these bans are handed out by BioWare Moderators as the result of our travels around the forum and/or issues reported by fellow community members.

2. EA Community bans come down from a different department and are the result of someone hitting the REPORT POST button. These bans can affect access to your game and/or DLC.

Because the BioWare community now operates under the same umbrella as all EA Communities, community members here have all explicitly agreed to abide by and be governed by both sets of rules. Consider it an added incentive to follow the rules you say you're going to follow."

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/119621/ea...ts-game-access

Ridiculous state of affairs.

[Sauf]

OMG OMG!! Tree you better start conforming lol

[Thee_oddball]

Idiom:
"To put all your eggs in one basket is to risk losing everything all at one time"

S!

[The Kraken]

I guess lung cancer is also worse than tuberculosis, but that still wouldn't make tuberculosis very appealing to me

[winny]

Mixed feelings about this, I wouldn't like it to happen to me, but I can think of plenty of online players of EA's titles who I'd love to see banned! Judging by the abuse that's thrown around online anonymity makes peole think they can be as offensive as they like.

It's about time someone started holding people to account for what they say online.

[Voyager]

Originally Posted by winny

Mixed feelings about this, I wouldn't like it to happen to me, but I can think of plenty of online players of EA's titles who I'd love to see banned! Judging by the abuse that's thrown around online anonymity makes peole think they can be as offensive as they like.

It's about time someone started holding people to account for what they say online.

I think the problem here is that they are banning people from offline games, not just the online games and forums.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by winny

Mixed feelings about this, I wouldn't like it to happen to me, but I can think of plenty of online players of EA's titles who I'd love to see banned! Judging by the abuse that's thrown around online anonymity makes peole think they can be as offensive as they like.

It's about time someone started holding people to account for what they say online.

They have started doing that in the UK and its a slippery slope a few people have lost their job for of the cuff remarks that you would say to your mates or in any public place and would not be reprimanded for.

The internet should always be taken with a pinch of salt and any attempt to control its use will be an attack on the freedom of speech... but I do agree people say a lot of things that they shouldn't

One example of many...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7914415.stm