EA: Get Banned From Forums, Lose Your Games

spazzattack

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I for one like their idea. It's really simple to not get banned in a forum, add I raise my EA flag higher and thank them for finding a way to punish doushebags. If I ran a company, I wouldn't sell to trolls either.
 

The Iron Ninja

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Jumplion said:
As soon as I saw that evil bearded guy smiling with the Communist background, I knew EA was going to do something stupid...
What's wrong with Tim Curry? He's awesome!
I like to think he was put there as less of a heralder for bad news, but more of a sympathetic gesture.
Something along the lines of "yes... yes it turns out EA really are that power crazy, but here's a picture of Tim Curry to put you at ease."

My worry is that it's only a matter of time before all these silly notions EA has of keeping you safe by watching you while you sleep are going to make their way onto console games as well.
 

bkd69

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The Iron Ninja said:
Jumplion said:
As soon as I saw that evil bearded guy smiling with the Communist background, I knew EA was going to do something stupid...
What's wrong with Tim Curry? He's awesome!
I like to think he was put there as less of a heralder for bad news, but more of a sympathetic gesture.
Something along the lines of "yes... yes it turns out EA really are that power crazy, but here's a picture of Tim Curry to put you at ease."
I know that if I ever got a flat tire on a stormy night, I'd want to be in front of his castle.

But if EA doesn't want to have user forums anymore, why don't they just shut them down?
 

stompy

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matrix3509 said:
I believe the problem stems entirely from the fact that you can get banned from EA forums now for even discussing DRM or SecuROM. So now if you complain about DRM, get ready to effectively lose your games.
OK, that's really overkill...

Seriously though, someone has got to get rid of this EULA crap? It's the EULA that allows these massive corporations from doing practically whatever they want with us gamers, to the extent they are skirting on illicit activity.
 

TOGSolid

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Update to the story.

http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jspa?threadID=457006&tstart=0

Hey everyone,

If you didn't notice, your C&C Community Manager, me, had a bit of a run-in with the video game blogging media today in reference to a direct quote I made on our forums here a few days ago in regards to how we handle bans and suspensions on the forums and in-game. You all know how we are greatly trying to protect and serve you from those who wish to disrupt our C&C community by breaking ToS on our forums or in-game, and I know everyone appreciates when we take action on those that are the worst.

That said, the previous statement I made recently (that's being quoted on the blogs) was inaccurate and a mistake on my part. I had a misunderstanding with regards to our new upcoming forums and website and never meant to infer that if we ban or suspend you on the forums, you would be banned in-game as well. This is not correct, my mistake, my bad.

If we suspend or ban you from the forums, that does not affect your in-game account and certainly it does not impact your in-game account for other games. Quite often we usually warn you before taking any type of action, suspend you before considering any type of ban, etc. I am sure you guys know that we are fairly tolerant and stress that you please show respect to others, but we also understand the forums are a place to be heard and express your opinion in a constructive manner. Everyone has their "flame" moments.


Your Posting in our official C&C EA Forums is enabled by an EA Nucleus account (the Master EA Account you typically login with to chose your Persona) -- but access to the forums and access to the games are separate. Players who have been banned from EA Forums are not automatically banned from online access to their other EA games, or the game associated with that particular forum. Players can be warned, suspended, and/or then 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 our customer support representatives responsible for that specific forum, game or service.

Suffice to say, when we take action on someone on our C&C forums here, for any number of ToS breaking reasons, it does not impact your C&C game account or any other EA Game Account connected to your forum name. The mods here do a great job of alerting me when we need to warn someone or take further action, if I haven't seen it myself or heard it in a thread from one of you, but any action we take on a C&C Forum User, doesn't impact their in-game status.

I apologize for the misunderstanding, but I hope everyone is able to see the greater good intent in that we are simply trying to keep the forums and in-game as friendly and fun environments as possible, just know that those two environments are treated seperately by myself, the mods, and especially our Customer Support team. =)

Sincerely,
APOC
Someone more linguistically capable needs to update the news page. I'm a bit too much of a smartass to write up news reports.
 

TheBluesader

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Ha ha, moderator EPIC FAIL. Methinks somebody got a bit of a swell head.

Everyone knows you can make a new account if you get banned, that banning is simply making a point. Why would they go to such drastic steps when it's so easily subverted?

Yes, there are certainly people who should be banned from everything because they're total social rejects. But like real life, you can't just get rid of them.

No matter how hard you hit.
 

TsunamiWombat

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APOC was later taken out behind the Internet by EA security and shot. He is survived by his wife and three children who will also be shot shortly. EA thanks you for your business and asks you keep your wallets open.

Do not resist. It'll only hurt worse.
 

Link Kadeshi

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BOOBIES!
Crap... Now I can't play any EA games. Amazing that this is somehow a fair move. So, if one of the EA execs swears, he's not allowed to go home? Can we do that?
 

TOGSolid

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Link Kadeshi said:
BOOBIES!
Crap... Now I can't play any EA games. Amazing that this is somehow a fair move. So, if one of the EA execs swears, he's not allowed to go home? Can we do that?
Did you even read my update?
 

bluemistake2

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oh jolly rodger old chap i spent my entire life doing notthing but EA games and the forums arejust fantastic. an old chap of mine came along and called me a, i have no idea what it means but a "dickmuncher" so i told him that hes very, very stupid now i am locked out of all my EA games.
Now for all the people who dont seem to realise i'm being sarcastic and a total english prick.

Now let me make a point here Forum and in-game should not be connected and if they did they should reward the player not kick him out of the fucking game, i have no idea why but i am fucking enraged here.
This is absolutle fucking bullshit, i have to admit i had fun with EA games at the time with spore and the sims series.
Well anyway if you play a fucking game and you can get banned on the GAME because you were "naughty" in the forums. you get locked out of your fucking game and you cant play it on your fucking computer, now let me tell you something if you can get locked out of your game by doing things wrong in the forums barely anyone is going to talk or discuss in the forums, they'll eventually end up with 2 people and it will end up like a chatbox were you have to write it down on a piece of paper put it in the box, and make sure it will end up werever the hell the other person lives.
now on another if you get locked out of you game and you have 1 fucking computer, is just tottaly fucked up, your a little 7 year old kid who worked 4 months saving up for spore goes on the forums, saying that he has spore, then he goes on how everyone should get spore and if you dont it must mean your poor.
Then later he plays spore and it sais he has been banned he runs off to his mum crying and having a sook (if this is you i'm describing call the suicide hotline).
now is this really something you should waste a hundred australian bucks on? i dont
Well i made my point and if i got the wrong idea and you tell me, you can go to hell because i spent quite some time writing this
 

Killerbunny001

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I do believe that Dick Dastardly is running EA and their spokesperson is Muttley. =))

Anyway, as I said before : Pirate EA games and only buy if the games are excellent.
 

Eagle Est1986

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Am I the only one who thinks this is sheer awesomeness? People will soon learn to play nicely if it means they would actually lose access to something outside of the internets.
 

RetiarySword

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This is just plain stupid, they are really pushing it now. Red Alert 3 is the only thing keeping me forgiving EA. In a small way I hope they fuck it up, so I can be done with EA all together.
 

ianuam

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Perhaps this is just a little ploy by E.A in order to restrict complaints? Suddenly you, in the heat of the moment, go ahead and rage about the restrictive DRM or similar on their forums, the admin bans you, you lost access. It'd sure make me think twice before complaining.