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Post by Weasel on Mar 11, 2011 13:45:33 GMT -5
www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/11/ea-forum-bans-can-lock-you-out-of-games/Protip: If you plan on finishing that game of Mass Effect 2, don't get banned from the EA forums - you could lose access to the game, since apparently your EA account that is used to buy DLC and the like is also your forum account. Get banned from the EA forums, and that DLC is as good as useless, and any saved games tied to it are unusable until the ban is lifted...IF that happens.
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Post by Warchief Onyx on Mar 11, 2011 14:11:17 GMT -5
Wow, that is amazingly douchey.
Of course, I don't know why you'd want to post on EA's forums anyway. But wow. What a dick thing to do.
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Post by megatronbison on Mar 11, 2011 14:37:08 GMT -5
Electronic Arseholes.
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Post by Weasel on Mar 11, 2011 21:30:20 GMT -5
Update: it was apparently an accident that the guy got banned from his games. Accident or not, though, this sets an alarming precedent that EA is capable of banning you from your games on a whim. |
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Post by Warchief Onyx on Mar 11, 2011 22:03:45 GMT -5
"Accident" sounds more like "negative public backlash" to me.  |
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Post by Snarboo on Mar 11, 2011 22:05:03 GMT -5
I doubt this was an "accident". Tech support initially responded confirming the ban, as did a Bioware forum mod. It seems only after backlash from the media did they decide to reverse this.
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Post by vetus on Mar 11, 2011 23:47:22 GMT -5
Too bad Nintendo won't ban all those @#$%^&* cheaters on games like Mario Kart Wii on Online Mode. |
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Post by America Young Fusion on Mar 11, 2011 23:57:24 GMT -5
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Post by kal on Mar 12, 2011 1:43:24 GMT -5
I doubt this was an "accident". Tech support initially responded confirming the ban, as did a Bioware forum mod. It seems only after backlash from the media did they decide to reverse this. Bureaucracy is a funny thing. Lower level employees just have to go with whatever is written down usually. Although personally I find it more amusing than scary - what do you do to a precocious child being a dick? Take away his toys and make him sit in time out. Seems a novel solution to deal with trolls - in this case though there's no way his comment elected such treatment. |
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Post by kitten on Mar 12, 2011 8:48:34 GMT -5
what do you do to a precocious child being a dick? Take away his toys and make him sit in time out. Seems a novel solution to deal with trolls - in this case though there's no way his comment elected such treatment. Only in this case, the child happened to pay in full for the toys and in no way used them to bother other people. If it were online multiplayer games, I would find it reasonable to ban people for things like harassment, but to take away their single-player games? Their single-player games acted in no way a platform as to their harassment or obnoxious attitude? That's just fucking absurd. There's no excuse for it. What kind of comment do you think would make EA taking games away from people justified? |
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Post by zogbog on Mar 12, 2011 14:12:19 GMT -5
This is why the whole "you don’t own the game, you own the license" issue with PC games drives me mad. I understand this was probably a problem with tying forum accounts to the accounts that hold the games licence to curb trolls on forums but the fact is, you bought the game, it's yours and no one should be able to take it away from you. Heck look at steam, even if you get caught for hacking the only thing you lose is the ability to play on multiplayer servers with VAC protection, you can still play all the single player games fine and without problem.
Licences are just a bad idea, I mean for an example, look at APB (I used to work at RTW :<) the people who bought the “license” to the game are now unable to play it or set up their own servers because the company went bust, yes it makes patches easier to distribute if everything is online but really players lose all control over the games they bought because the company that owns the game can just shut down the service and deny you access to the game at any time, and that’s just wrong. But then I think games only being able to be played on specific consoles and hardware set ups is a bad idea in the long run.
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Post by X-pert74 on Mar 12, 2011 17:12:11 GMT -5
Whatever happened with them, I'm glad that EA gave the guy access to his games again. Taking them away just for that one comment is absurd.
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Post by kobushi on Mar 12, 2011 22:55:16 GMT -5
What a shocking and horrible thing to do.
(posting on EA's forums, I mean)
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Post by kal on Mar 13, 2011 1:41:39 GMT -5
what do you do to a precocious child being a dick? Take away his toys and make him sit in time out. Seems a novel solution to deal with trolls - in this case though there's no way his comment elected such treatment. Only in this case, the child happened to pay in full for the toys and in no way used them to bother other people. If it were online multiplayer games, I would find it reasonable to ban people for things like harassment, but to take away their single-player games? Their single-player games acted in no way a platform as to their harassment or obnoxious attitude? That's just fucking absurd. There's no excuse for it. What kind of comment do you think would make EA taking games away from people justified? I said it was novel but unacceptable (and regardless of whether they're lying or not they claim it was an accident and removed the ban) for such a slight offense. I maintain that it is such, stop looking for things to be offended by. Though if they aren't lying I wonder what reason they had to code in this functionality presuming that it wasn't necessarily an easy thing to implement because lets be honest every time DRM is brought up there's a shit storm. Was it to mass ban an account if the person is found to be using pirate copies/illegal keys? |
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Post by derboo on Mar 13, 2011 4:49:33 GMT -5
I'd say it was simply because of the fascistoid desire to have everything under control.
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