No Dragon Age 2 for Suspended BioWare Forumite - UPDATED
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I realize they handled it wrong, but how often does this sort of thing happen? This is perhaps the first and only instance of this problem and as such, need not be blown out of proportion. Obviously companies can have some pretty crazy legal agreements, but unless this gets worse, it's not news as far as I'm concerned.Uriel-238 said:
Consumer rights is a hefty issue, but I feel like there are bigger and more egregious examples of overbearing corporate policies that affect a wider range of customers. This is just not-news and an excuse to rant.
I picture Emperor Palpatine saying the Bioware response.
"Consider it an incentive to follow the rules you say you're going to follow".
If you feel he's being rude, suspend his right to speak. But don't steal his money and then throw a fit that he doesn't like you, you're behaving like a goddamn fascist!.
If you really wanted people to read the rules so badly, you wouldn't make the sheets 200 pages long!. You know damn well that most people don't read them and will miss something so out of the ordinary as to go against their instinct on free speech. You can'y honestly tell me that you, as gamers, read every legal agreement you sign or that nobody else has broken this rule, do you know how popular an opinion this is?, you might not want to piss off the people who put food on your tables!. Just put a notice up in the beginning detailing the basic rules the player must follow.
Now issue an apology and reprehend the mistake, don't make yourselves look like self righteous, infantile, megalomaniacal bags of douche!
Had to get that off my chest
Edit: So I hear it's been fixed, so I guess we're cool now. I'll have to do some research before I take the final verdict on weather this is acceptable, but at least I know that, at worst, they're being a little harsh, not the Nazi pricks previously mentioned
"Consider it an incentive to follow the rules you say you're going to follow".
If you feel he's being rude, suspend his right to speak. But don't steal his money and then throw a fit that he doesn't like you, you're behaving like a goddamn fascist!.
If you really wanted people to read the rules so badly, you wouldn't make the sheets 200 pages long!. You know damn well that most people don't read them and will miss something so out of the ordinary as to go against their instinct on free speech. You can'y honestly tell me that you, as gamers, read every legal agreement you sign or that nobody else has broken this rule, do you know how popular an opinion this is?, you might not want to piss off the people who put food on your tables!. Just put a notice up in the beginning detailing the basic rules the player must follow.
Now issue an apology and reprehend the mistake, don't make yourselves look like self righteous, infantile, megalomaniacal bags of douche!
Had to get that off my chest
Edit: So I hear it's been fixed, so I guess we're cool now. I'll have to do some research before I take the final verdict on weather this is acceptable, but at least I know that, at worst, they're being a little harsh, not the Nazi pricks previously mentioned
A wild opinion appears!
I'm assuming a little here(if I'm wrong I take it back) but;
He makes this comment about dragon age 2
He receives a ban for it
He then kicks off about being unable to install
He made a non constructive comment on a game he then admits he hasn't actually played beyond a demo...
Its like a Darwinism ban. (there's a certain irony here in that I'm making baseless claims about this guy making baseless claims but, meh)
To all the sensationalists out there remind yourselves, it's a three day ban, his game didn't explode when the ban came into effect. The EA mods weren't being thought police they were being idiot police.
I'm assuming a little here(if I'm wrong I take it back) but;
He makes this comment about dragon age 2
He receives a ban for it
He then kicks off about being unable to install
He made a non constructive comment on a game he then admits he hasn't actually played beyond a demo...
Its like a Darwinism ban. (there's a certain irony here in that I'm making baseless claims about this guy making baseless claims but, meh)
To all the sensationalists out there remind yourselves, it's a three day ban, his game didn't explode when the ban came into effect. The EA mods weren't being thought police they were being idiot police.
Stop being sensationalists about this. He wasn't banned from playing the game, his online account was suspended. Naturally, things like game activations would not work during the suspension. If he had, in fact, activated the game before getting banned it, there wouldn't have been a problem.
EULAs have been declared legally binding on at least [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Indus._LLC_v._Blizzard_Entm%27t,_Inc.] three [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProCD,_Inc._v._Zeidenberg] counts. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Harmony_Comps._%26_Elecs.,_Inc.]j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
You may want to update this story, Chalk.
Put shoe on head.Naeberius said:Made an extra profile on the bioware site. yousoldyoursoultotheeadevil
http://social.bioware.com/profile/2733677
Still deciding what to do with it though
'people think EA is awesome'? who? some one that's been in a coma for the last 15 years or souppitycracker said:
and this was bullshit, flat out,
forum ban, fine, rigging it so he can't play his new game? unacceptable
if it as me, there'd been a nasty letter to EA about it fallowed by a gutting of all vital account info and abandoning the account (done it before, only once though)
Between this and a video I saw recently where BioWare were accusing 4chan of the low score Dragon Age 2 has on Metacritic and basically saying "end of line" whenever somebody tried to offer a mature debate on the subject... I don't know if I want to support BioWare anymore.
Apparently it was a glitch and he has now been unbanned.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/11/ea-retracts-game-ban-for-forum-violation/
I'm still not so convinced though and think they're just trying to save face :\ but then I get pretty paranoid sometimes...
Edit: whoops ninja'd
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/11/ea-retracts-game-ban-for-forum-violation/
I'm still not so convinced though and think they're just trying to save face :\ but then I get pretty paranoid sometimes...
Edit: whoops ninja'd
So he trolled on there forums (Yes i did read his comment and i see it as trolling) and got a 3 day ban.
Dont see a problem.
The ban means he couldnt activate his game till those 3 days were up?
Still dont see a problem and i hope he learned his lession.
Dont see a problem.
The ban means he couldnt activate his game till those 3 days were up?
Still dont see a problem and i hope he learned his lession.
Thin? I've been put on probation for asking if someone was being sarcastic.Andy Chalk said:
I have the feeling if I said something like "The Escapist and it's moderators are the internet equivalent of Satan." The ban hammer would come down so fast my head would spin. Or maybe probation gets handed out like candy and you have to work for a ban....
Well that just goes to show, never say anything about anyone on the internet when there are moderators around. Do it in private behind their backs that way they won't lock you out of shit you payed for.