EA now issuing permanent Origin bans through content filter

[MaximumTacos]

Solution: don't post on useless Origin forums.

Yes, I wish I'd known this THEN.

 

[MaximumTacos]

Am currently on phone with EA support.

It's not a 72 hour ban, it's a permaban.

Posting the audio shortly.

 

[MaximumTacos]

http://soundcloud.com/maximum-tacos/ea-games-support-call-about-ban

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Hope you get your account back :< Kind of sucks.

 

[DecoyBeacon]

Oh that's nothing my friend. People in the Sims 3 community have been banned because of something they posted on their private blogs I shit you not.

The thing in question? Complaining that the exchange was down for the second month in a row...

I actually feel kind of nervous posting this... that should say a lot.

Well thats the next logical step for EA's banbot, it bans people for stuff they never said, it bans people twice on the same post without anyone reposting it, so the next logical step for its evolution is to ban anyone associated with ban victims.

With each ban, it grows in power... coming soon to an EA account near you, EA BAN BOT.

 

[Dense_Electric]

This is why I don't purchase EA products anymore. In following with Jim Sterling's episode about boycotting, EA is a company that absolutely needs to be boycotted into non-existence. The EA-Nazi comparison is pretty old at this point, but it's taken on a startling new relevance with this whole Origin thing.

 

[Nopenahnuhuh]

How goes it so far buddy? I'm sure that this situation does indeed ruin a gentleman's evening... Glad I avoid the EA forums.

 

[MaximumTacos]

I want to prove, on top of the content filter being glitchy, that anyone can be framed, just by having a few people hitting the report button on inoffensive posts, but to do so I'd have to frame someone. :\

Who wants to *potentially* sacrifice an account for 72 hours, possibly for life, in order to test this?

This would, properly documented, make a world-famous blog or news site entry. Proof that if you play BF3 and a few people don't like you, you can be "terminated and suspended".

 

[Continuity]

Oh EA how we love you so.

-.-

 

[MaximumTacos]

DICE's community manager on Reddit is ignoring my PMs.

Why, crash7800, why?!

EDIT: started a new BF3 subreddit about this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield3/comments/n04lb/i_was_forum_banned_and_cut_off_from_bf3/

I need upvotes.. for some reason any post on reddit about these bans, by me or others, gets about 50% downvotes, more than any other topic. Suspicious.

 

[Anthony Wells]

i feel so bad for you man....wish there was something i can do aside from spreading this story among my friends which probably wont do much

 

[MaximumTacos]

well, since I found so many other people who had similar things happen to them, I've decided to start a website about it and give them a public voice.

www.EAstolemyBF3.com - keep watching, I'll have forums and a portal up soon

 

[Do4600]

small claims court!

It's only $160 to file in my locality. They'll try to claim that I'm subject to binding arbitration but there's way around that. Also they'll still spend thousands flying a lawyer out to me.

Strongly considering this option along with documenting the saga.

Most of the claims people bring against game companies are settled out of court specifically because they'd rather refund your $85 than spend thousands to fly a lawyer out.

 

[FISKER_Q]

I want to prove, on top of the content filter being glitchy, that anyone can be framed, just by having a few people hitting the report button on inoffensive posts, but to do so I'd have to frame someone. :\

Who wants to *potentially* sacrifice an account for 72 hours, possibly for life, in order to test this?

This would, properly documented, make a world-famous blog or news site entry. Proof that if you play BF3 and a few people don't like you, you can be "terminated and suspended".

If you still need someone, i'm up for it.

 

[Spy_Guy]

Solution: don't post on useless Origin forums.

I'm thinking that it's a better solution to not buy EA's games in order to discourage that sort of business practice.

What you have there is more of a workaround, really.

 

[Xpheyel]

Yeah. Avoiding Origin until EA unlinks the forum/game bans. I haven't gotten banned from anywhere, to the best of my knowledge thus far. I have been a power tripping mod though. It sounds way to hard to get CS to reverse them to risk games on forum bans.

Next year, wanna bet EA will be making more console exclusives because 'pc gaming is dying'?

 

[robert01]

I own 1 game that actually requires Origin to install which was Alice - Madness Returns, so my lack of being able to play it does not bother me at all.

I really hope EA gets of this fucking high horse and sees that banning people from their accounts because of shit that happens on the forums is a little of the limit.

Yeah. Avoiding Origin until EA unlinks the forum/game bans. I haven't gotten banned from anywhere, to the best of my knowledge thus far. I have been a power tripping mod though. It sounds way to hard to get CD to reverse them to risk games on forum bans.

Next year, wanna bet EA will be making more console exclusives because 'pc gaming dying'?

Let them, any publisher that wants to treat their customers in that way is not welcome to have a product on my computer.
But than again I think these publishers forget that unlike myself, I think most people are multi-platform gamers. So if you piss off enough pc gamers eventually you are going to start hitting the console market too.

 

[DecoyBeacon]

Yeah. Avoiding Origin until EA unlinks the forum/game bans. I haven't gotten banned from anywhere, to the best of my knowledge thus far. I have been a power tripping mod though. It sounds way to hard to get CD to reverse them to risk games on forum bans.

Next year, wanna bet EA will be making more console exclusives because 'pc gaming dying'?

Funny thing is though:
Even console/ios/etc gamers are going to get screwed by forum posts. Origin is just EA Online/EA accounts/EA Store, etc brought under 1 umbrella of turd. So if someone goes and acquires a magical EA ban then it should in theory ban them from the EA games that have a sign in.

The console forums on battlelog are FAR WORSE than the PC ones, seriously its one hell of a sewer there, anyone who thought OP's post on the battlelog forums was flamebait then just wow when you see that one. I just wonder how many console gamers have fallen prey to EA's banhammer and not known how to do anything about it.

Its also worth noting that EA is making an increased push to console manufacturers to get Origin on their platforms, especially the Wii U where they want to RUN the online. Imagine that, you get banned because someone swears at you and that nice shiny Wii U you bought you suddenly can't go online on.

 

[CountChopula]

you shouldn't have resorted to using obscenities that were going to get you suspended dude. You totally asked for this.

 

[mrdnra]

Hi just wanted to say I've registered just because I'm that shocked by what I've read here I want to show some sort of support at least. I saw this on Bungie.net off topic forum first and then came here through the link there. It seems that what EA are doing here is outright theft. I am seriously considering boycotting EA from now on, even though I didn't buy much of their stuff in the first place, and never used their forums.