Questions Still Swirl Around EA's Origin Bans
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It's legal, sadly. Wanna know why? 'cuz EA buys out the judges, along with the rest of the fatass capitalist pigs at Wall Street.RaikuFA said:
See this is where EA is getting in a slippery slope of legal issues.
When I purchase a game I am entitled to play that game. I have purchased a license to do so. So now EA is saying that their licensing is conditional to your standings on their forums, and that by being banned from their forums also revokes all of your licenses to play their games?
The way the suspension should work is you can't post to the forums, but you can continue to play the content that you purchased a license to play. Hell even Steam's VAC doesn't lock you out of single player content(or non-VAC servers depending on the game).
Looks like EA is looking to dig their own coffin.
When I purchase a game I am entitled to play that game. I have purchased a license to do so. So now EA is saying that their licensing is conditional to your standings on their forums, and that by being banned from their forums also revokes all of your licenses to play their games?
The way the suspension should work is you can't post to the forums, but you can continue to play the content that you purchased a license to play. Hell even Steam's VAC doesn't lock you out of single player content(or non-VAC servers depending on the game).
Looks like EA is looking to dig their own coffin.
And there is the kicker. Every TOS for a public forum run by a corporation has a line something like "no statements that are objectionable." Then they leave the definition of objectionable up the the individual mods.
Someone says "I had eggs for breakfast" they get dinged for "advocating cruelty to animals" by a militant vegan mod. Someone says "I didn't think passion of the christ was a good movie" they get dinged by a fundie mod as anti religious.
And there is never any meaningful appeals process because the corporate owners either don't care or don't want to make it harder to find people to take the thankless job of modding.
But unlike most forums where a ban means you just find somewhere else to waste your time a "service" like origin means you are locked out of content you paid for. But in a way that is a good lesson.
Any power one person has over another will be used as a means of control. Always has and always will. The mod in a service like that has powers to ruin someones day by banning or suspending them, they will find every excuse possible to exercise those powers against those who say things the mod personally disagrees with.
I'm right there with you 100%. After what they did to Pandemic and then the crap about the forum bans/game bans I refuse to have an EA game on my trophies lists. I actually removed my PSN accounts and created new ones, then took all my EA games and sold them.VyseRogueKing said:
Their behavor reminds me eerily of a smack dealer's reaction to a junkie talking shit about the quality of the "merchandise". NewsFlash: EA. If you treat your customers like addicts and cut them off they'll eventually find a new supplier.
Fu-Q EA! Long live Bethesda and Rockstar!
a very good reason to stay away from EA and their spyware origin. i think their mentor is MOM from futurama. call techsupport and they will kill you.
how i wish to get my self ME3 but EA stops me from getting it with their spyware.
how i wish to get my self ME3 but EA stops me from getting it with their spyware.
And here i was hoping for an article of Germany banning origin.......
anyway, thats a very effective way to stop trolling. not a good way, but effective. soon - ea forums are desert.
and if you break the rules, no matter in game or in forums, you get punished. point being - stop breaking the rules?
though the examples mentioned really seemed ridiculous.
So, now im boycotting ubisoft and EA, whos next?
anyway, thats a very effective way to stop trolling. not a good way, but effective. soon - ea forums are desert.
and if you break the rules, no matter in game or in forums, you get punished. point being - stop breaking the rules?
though the examples mentioned really seemed ridiculous.
So, now im boycotting ubisoft and EA, whos next?
You don't waste a judge's time with trivial matters like this. This is something we can deal with ourselves.Cid SilverWing said:
We have a gaming press reporting on these abuses and then we can decide if we still want to do business with EA.
At the very least, if you must play BF3, never use the EA forums or ANY forums related to EA, such as the Bioware forums, just in case another harmless word like e-peen becomes a banning offense.
They may be a bunch of asshats but they are an obvious target indeed which is why they haven't been attack yet because it would only generate a sob story from EA only to try and reinforce their rules and try and gain more sympathy.Abandon4093 said:
If anyone deserves it it's Activision.
i once posted a link from wikipedia about origin on the bioware ME3 forum. someone was still asking what origin was, so i posted the link.
the next day, my comment has been removed. but i dint get a warning or anything like that. still weird why the link has been removed when its a official one. i guess EA dint like this link because it clearly states what origin is and does.
the next day, my comment has been removed. but i dint get a warning or anything like that. still weird why the link has been removed when its a official one. i guess EA dint like this link because it clearly states what origin is and does.
I am going to say that if they want to tie there in game to the forums then they should be prepared to have a very quite forum. After all the best way to keep from getting into trouble is to never post. Of course this helps out the forums that are not directly tied to the game it self so 3 cheers for the independent Thanks for opening up the market EA 
And EA Continues to thrive on my unbridled hate for them. First they take Westwood from me, then they set up a crap distribution service with the worst rules and regulations I've seen and now this. I'm just glad that the only game I want from EA in the forseeable future is Mass Effect 3. And I was planning on buying it retail anyway for the collector's edition.
It's also good, I guess, that I almost NEVER go on to the forums for any game I own. Except TF2 so I can go trading.
EA, may your company rot.
It's also good, I guess, that I almost NEVER go on to the forums for any game I own. Except TF2 so I can go trading.
EA, may your company rot.
Depends on the Origin ToU. If there's a clause in there that that says that EA can restrict your access to games provided through the service at any time, then what they're doing is completely legal. Mind though, that "right" and "legal" don't always line-up. This is still further fuel for the "Why I'm boycotting anything EA right now" fire. I don't see that one dying down anytime soon.RaikuFA said: