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Post by hidetoshidecide on Mar 13, 2011 7:26:28 GMT -5
Intellectually, I find this wrong. But there's a large part of me that understands and even applauds EA's apparent decision to go Jacobin on the little shits.
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Post by roushimsx on Mar 13, 2011 16:44:26 GMT -5
They didn't remove his ability to play the game he bought, they removed his ability to activate it to his banned account since, as it says on the box, he needs an active EA account to register the game prior to playing it. If he wanted, he could have gotten a refund from EA for not being able to play the game he purchased.
Everyone is making all sorts of wild leaps of logic and jumping to conclusions on this. If he wanted to play his game right then, he just needed to register a new EA account to activate his game to. If he had activated his game prior to being banned, he could have kept on playing it.
This is nowhere near as bad as Steam, where getting flagged as a cheater (even on accident) in one VAC game flags you as a cheater across all VAC-enabled games with no solution for resolving it (somewhat understandable since I'm sure everyone would claim that it was a mistake and that they weren't cheating) or where any number of simple payment issues that may crop up could lock you out of your entire library.
On another forum I frequent, a gentleman purchased a game using paypal since they had their CC info tied to that and not Steam. There was an issue (I think maybe the card had expired or something?) and Steam wound up locking the guy out of his entire account / all of the games he "owned" on the service. Took him a couple of days to resolve that IIRC. If someone gifts you a game using a stolen card, it'll lock your account out from you, too...so don't accept gifts from anyone you don't really fucking trust unless you're willing to take the risk of losing all of your stuffs.
But hey, at least there's always GOG where once you buy a game, you can download a DRM-free version that you can install on all of your computers/laptops and back up to multiple DVDs without ever having to worry about losing access. Just make sure you download 'em before the GOG Monks shut the site down again for publicity.
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Post by Weasel on Mar 13, 2011 19:22:21 GMT -5
Everyone is making all sorts of wild leaps of logic and jumping to conclusions on this. If he wanted to play his game right then, he just needed to register a new EA account to activate his game to. If he had activated his game prior to being banned, he could have kept on playing it. Except that in-game DLC is tied to your EA account, and if you can't log in to the EA account that purchased the DLC, any games saved with that DLC enabled cannot be loaded. So if he wanted to continue playing, he'd have to both disable the DLC and start a new game from the very beginning. Just as bad as not being able to play, in cases like Dragon Age or Mass Effect 2. |
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Post by roushimsx on Mar 13, 2011 19:43:40 GMT -5
Except that in-game DLC is tied to your EA account, and if you can't log in to the EA account that purchased the DLC, any games saved with that DLC enabled cannot be loaded. So if he wanted to continue playing, he'd have to both disable the DLC and start a new game from the very beginning. Just as bad as not being able to play, in cases like Dragon Age or Mass Effect 2. Well given the quality of most the DLC for both Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age, let's be honest, it's more of a blessing in disguise. (i kid, i kid. but only sort of) The big thing is that it's right on the box that you need an active EA account for the game. If you have even a shred of common sense, you don't go friendging up the official forums with the account that you have tied to your games, just like you wouldn't go on the Steam forums to post about your favorite Counter Strike wall hacks that circumvent VAC under your gaming account. Yes, it sucks that that's the state of digital distribution, but you can thank the rabid piracy rates, shrinking interest in PC gaming, and predictable kneejerk reaction of the publishers to try to capture every last dollar from the remaining players. It could be worse. When I lost my decoder wheel for Rocket Ranger, it took me a hell of a lot longer than 72hrs to get a replacement mailed to me. Man, and if this policy scares the retards that like to pollute the official forums with garbage (making them completely unreadable for anyone actually looking for quality information) into not trolling or posting low content trash (BUMP! SIGNED! PICS! TITS OR GTFO! A/S/L!), then fuck it, I'm all for it. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2011 19:46:49 GMT -5
If you have even a shred of common sense, you don't go friendging up the official forums... Uh... |
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Post by megatronbison on Mar 13, 2011 20:09:48 GMT -5
I remember buying full games with no DLC, working out of the box without needing perma online access. This is a sorry state of affairs no matter how you try to justify it.
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