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MOnk

MOnk

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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/14/ea-forum-bans-are-still-affecting-games/#more-82032
We are receiving information from a number of gamers who have received forum bans for a variety of reasons who are finding they’re unable to play Battlefield 3 (or indeed any other game tied into the EA user account), and worse, when they try to contact EA for help sorting this out, they are either ignored or told it’s tough. So what’s going on?

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Then we heard from James, whose tale is even more extraordinary. He has been permanently banned for using the word “e-peen”. (For those unfamiliar, this is short for “electronic penis”, and tends to be used to suggest someone is egotistically willy-waving.) However, he did not even introduce the word. It was in reply to someone else who’d said it, and responded, “Ah, back to the e-peen talk.” He was originally told this ban would be for 72 hours, but on Saturday received an email informing him that it was now to be a permanent ban from his Origin account, with no further explanation given. It was added that the matter was “now closed”. And, as ever, EA’s live chat and customer support are refusing to help him in any way. He’s also been told that his BF3 characters and levels will be deleted.
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So ya, no matter what you have so say, it's not worth the risk of losing accessing to all your Origin/EA Account games. No better way to completely destroy consumer confidence in your digital store than by banning people from playing games they have bought.
 
Origin fails fucking hard. BF3 might be a brilliant game but it's let down by one major idiot or should that be its let down by blind idiocy? Please respond to that EA.
 
Why EA, why?

So we can expect much ban hammer swinging.

Didn't something like this already happen to some guy with his Mass Effect 2, getting banned by EA?
 
Yeah well... can't say I didn't see all of this coming.
Origin is just as bad as the original EA-Downloader, if not possibly worse.

EA can reach me over on THAT OTHER side of the fence when they sort their shit out...
 
Is anyone really surprised? But nooooo... When people who have had experience with EA and its support tell you of how utterly shyte it is "U all lyk jus' jealous of EA/Origin!"

Oh well, if you can't learn from the mistakes of others then you have to find out the hard way for yourself.
 
And the best part is, even if you wanted to, you can't take legal action because you signed away those rights.
 
Simple msg for EA:

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EA's new logo...

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Wir sind kommunistische Bastarde
 
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...the one person I had on EA's support was really totally terrible and it took 5 emails for him to understand wtf I was saying and wtf I was asking. He somehow managed to switch the two around and tried to assist me on general feedback which I stated after explaining my problem. The other person was one of the best support people I've had in a long time, but he was definitely not outsourced or non-english.
 
MOnk said:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/14/ea-forum-bans-are-still-affecting-games/#more-82032


So ya, no matter what you have so say, it's not worth the risk of losing accessing to all your Origin/EA Account games. No better way to completely destroy consumer confidence in your digital store than by banning people from playing games they have bought.
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now ill never buy a ea game knowing its origin game. and if i get a game that requires origin ill find a crack for it before installing that crap
 
The crap part is that EA is now probably the biggest publisher and most of the great games that interest me, are published by them. So unless they somehow change their snotty practices, I'll be forced to deal with them if I want to keep playing my favourite games.
 
Perma ban for that? Epic fail.

ViperGTI said:
The crap part is that EA is now probably the biggest publisher and most of the great games that interest me, are published by them. So unless they somehow change their snotty practices, I'll be forced to deal with them if I want to keep playing my favourite games.
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ViperGTI said:
The crap part is that EA is now probably the biggest publisher and most of the great games that interest me, are published by them. So unless they somehow change their snotty practices, I'll be forced to deal with them if I want to keep playing my favourite games.
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I think there's about 4 similarly large publishers lining up outside your door as we speak.
They're all planning to klap your consciousness back to reality...

Well, unless you're a massive sports-game fan?
 
ViperGTI said:
The crap part is that EA is now probably the biggest publisher and most of the great games that interest me, are published by them. So unless they somehow change their snotty practices, I'll be forced to deal with them if I want to keep playing my favourite games.
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And that's why it's going to continue, because people like you can't put your foot down and say no to absolute bullshit, but accept it because 'I can't miss the game'.

I refuse to buy another EA game until it is removed, and if that means missing BF3 and ME3 (which I'm looking forward to a lot), then so be it.
 
This is utter bullshit :( WTF are they doing, two of those 3 didnt really do anything... Scary how things are going with the gaming industry...
 
Well, I did use the word "probably" in my earlier post, mostly cause I don't really know... hence the word "probably".

Graal said:
And that's why it's going to continue, because people like you can't put your foot down and say no to absolute bullshit, but accept it because 'I can't miss the game'.

I refuse to buy another EA game until it is removed, and if that means missing BF3 and ME3 (which I'm looking forward to a lot), then so be it.
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I got back into gaming because of Mass Effect in the first place. I choose the games I buy based on the individual product, not based on "brand", although EA isn't even really the brand (that would be the developer).

If there is a new game I don't have experience with, like BF3, then the publisher will affect my decision and in EA's case, I'll give it a miss and rather go for MW3 should I choose to get into those kind of games... but if it is part of a series like Mass Effect, Hitman or Assassin's Creed, I'm going to buy the game because I know it will be a great product and I'm not going to spite myself just to try and spite the publishers.

The boycott strategy won't work unless you have the whole world onboard with your idea which is not going to happen. Not because it is not a good idea, but simply because of diversity in the "gaming community". The only way I think they will change their practices, is if EA's nonsense causes a big embarrassment for them in the media or if they make the same kind of blunder Ubisoft did with From Dust where they had to do refunds and remove the DRM.
 
ViperGTI said:
The boycott strategy won't work unless you have the whole world onboard with your idea which is not going to happen. Not because it is not a good idea, but simply because of diversity in the "gaming community". The only way I think they will change their practices, is if EA's nonsense causes a big embarrassment for them in the media or if they make the same kind of blunder Ubisoft did with From Dust where they had to do refunds and remove the DRM.
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Well, change starts with yourself. Remember, there are loads of people who want to boycott it to prove a point, but all of them are thinking that it's no use because 'nobody else is going to boycott it'. :P

I have no doubt that ME3 is going to be amazing, with ME2 being one of my favorite games of 2010, but it's just not worth giving up my privacy to EA for.
 
Graal said:
Well, change starts with yourself. Remember, there are loads of people who want to boycott it to prove a point, but all of them are thinking that it's no use because 'nobody else is going to boycott it'. :P

I have no doubt that ME3 is going to be amazing, with ME2 being one of my favorite games of 2010, but it's just not worth giving up my privacy to EA for.
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Well said!
Change starts at home.
Sitting back with an attitude of "Nothing I do by myself makes a change" is the very problem. That is exactly why games like Skyrim, BF3, MW3, Rage, etc gets out on the market in the states they do.
Because dumbshit consumers simply shrug their shoulders and keep forking over the cash.

If you wanna hurt them; Hurt them in their wallets. Yes, your R500 counts. Just as much as the next guy. And the one after that.
And before you can wipe your eyes out, a massive overkill title like Skyrim might just loose 70% or more of their fans for good!

(PS: No, haven't played Skyrim, just keep coming across more and more articles and blogs with complaints - some valid - all over the net)
 
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