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Keep digging your own Atari ET pit game companies. Can't wait to bury you all and get some new blood in the industry.
This is somewhat better, but still unacceptable since you're still locked out of online multiplayer for a forum ban. What you do on the forums should have no effect on the games you purchased. Simple as that.
Oh boy! Now banned players will have the privilege of experiencing the single player content of Origin's many exclusives, such as Battlefield 3, and........................................................
Personally, no matter how much of an asshole someone is to me online. No matter how much I wish I could virtually genital punch them in real life. I would never want them to be banned from playing the games they bought. Sure block the online play as that has stipulations attached. But to access the single player content of the game they purchased? No contest there. I would hate a future where gaming turned into a police state. Always tiptoeing around to avoid worry of being perma-banned. I have never ever had an issue playing a game online, but I have seen cases where people have ganged up on the little guy and reported him for some made up reason, generally in response to them being a bad player. Now, I understand most bans do NOT work this way.
Having said all of that, most forum bans should NOT ban you from any aspect of the game. Unless someone is attempting to steal someone's credentials or hacking the website. They should be given a chance to play the game fully. If they f' up there, then feel free to ban them. In this way, they are given multiple chances at redemption. "Here is a forum ban", "Oh you still did not learn? Here is a ban from BF3". This creates more work for EA, but it also does not blow things out of proportion. Someone may explode on the forums in response to another troll or some other nonsensical reason, but this should be held as a separate matter from the games they own.
Having said all of that, most forum bans should NOT ban you from any aspect of the game. Unless someone is attempting to steal someone's credentials or hacking the website. They should be given a chance to play the game fully. If they f' up there, then feel free to ban them. In this way, they are given multiple chances at redemption. "Here is a forum ban", "Oh you still did not learn? Here is a ban from BF3". This creates more work for EA, but it also does not blow things out of proportion. Someone may explode on the forums in response to another troll or some other nonsensical reason, but this should be held as a separate matter from the games they own.
Mirror's Edge, the dragon ages, orange box(the HL games at least and portal), the mass effects.
I could go on but I'll stop now, there's SP stuff on origin. I would imagine people would know this but Steam's cock firmly jammed down their throat prevents from exploring other venues.
Not that I like origin, I hate DRM in general.
I could go on but I'll stop now, there's SP stuff on origin. I would imagine people would know this but Steam's cock firmly jammed down their throat prevents from exploring other venues.
Not that I like origin, I hate DRM in general.
Every single one of those is available on Steam. I fail to see why anyone would want to use something that isn't Steam to play any of those games.
@JoeTheProYaKnow: Well said. What happens on a forum should have no consequences outside of that, unless the behavior is an offense punishable by law. This is still really ridiculous.
Before I didn't want to say it but now I really can out of my own experience: Origin is a peace of shit!
Now on to the reason:
I tried to download battelfield 2142 after a while of not playing it however I noticed the installed game didn't even boot after downloading it from origin. After some looking into the files and quite some time I came to the conclusion that the files where incomplete and the installed game was only 1.7gb. the download itself was also smaller than it should have been so it can only be the origin download. After finding this out I downloaded the game from The Pirate Bay, installed it with my legit cd key and it worked just fine.
In short Origin is a peace of shit not even providing working downloads for its games forcing you to pirate a game you legally own just to play it
Now on to the reason:
I tried to download battelfield 2142 after a while of not playing it however I noticed the installed game didn't even boot after downloading it from origin. After some looking into the files and quite some time I came to the conclusion that the files where incomplete and the installed game was only 1.7gb. the download itself was also smaller than it should have been so it can only be the origin download. After finding this out I downloaded the game from The Pirate Bay, installed it with my legit cd key and it worked just fine.
In short Origin is a peace of shit not even providing working downloads for its games forcing you to pirate a game you legally own just to play it
I wonder how many of you Origin users know about EA's recent use of Origin as a means to spam votes on that Allout poll?
http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=233354
Enjoy being part of their botnet I guess.
http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=233354
Enjoy being part of their botnet I guess.
My only problem with Origin is the fact that EA runs it. I wanted to give it a fair shot and tried it out with Mass Effect 3 and honestly I haven't had any technical issues with it. EA still needs to start building goodwill or hell at least offer some games for cheap, bought a copy of Sniper Elite for 2.50 then bought another for my brother. Discovered a new game and found out its got a sequel coming next month.
Anyway, EA just needs to do more good will and then...Yea...never mind.
Anyway, EA just needs to do more good will and then...Yea...never mind.
People do understand that they can get banned from Steam, right?
And said ban will get you out of all games (online and offline), right? With no chance to appeal short of mailing Newell himself.
People seems to be getting EA a hard time because its fancy, but they don't realize most alternatives are not that much better. I guess that is part of no one actually reading the TOS...
And said ban will get you out of all games (online and offline), right? With no chance to appeal short of mailing Newell himself.
People seems to be getting EA a hard time because its fancy, but they don't realize most alternatives are not that much better. I guess that is part of no one actually reading the TOS...
@hermes call me when a forum ban gets you banned from your multiplayer Steam games pal.
Also no, Origin is not "fancy" by any means. Clunkiest library interface I've ever seen.
Also no, Origin is not "fancy" by any means. Clunkiest library interface I've ever seen.
@Forsakeneyes
Specially since most of the banning we hear about (if you want to believe them for their word) are all over EA misconstruing something and/or making ridiculous snap judgements without investigation.
So yeah, forums should never effect any other aspect of a game, specially when most people are resigned to be complete jerks on forums whenever possible. Shit, if we were going to ban everyone like that TOR really would be a ghost town. Their forums are a Troll swamp.
Specially since most of the banning we hear about (if you want to believe them for their word) are all over EA misconstruing something and/or making ridiculous snap judgements without investigation.
So yeah, forums should never effect any other aspect of a game, specially when most people are resigned to be complete jerks on forums whenever possible. Shit, if we were going to ban everyone like that TOR really would be a ghost town. Their forums are a Troll swamp.
@hermes
..... yes except that the steam forums and the steam itself are completely separate. So a forum ban for being a trolly dbag (or just saying something EA doesn't like) isn't going to lock you out of your steam games.
You have to really work for an all out steam ban.
..... yes except that the steam forums and the steam itself are completely separate. So a forum ban for being a trolly dbag (or just saying something EA doesn't like) isn't going to lock you out of your steam games.
You have to really work for an all out steam ban.
Lolorigin.
Still have not bought bf3 - a highly anticipated game and one I still want to play to this day - because of origin.
Again, good job ea. You have a way of tainting everything you touch.
Still have not bought bf3 - a highly anticipated game and one I still want to play to this day - because of origin.
Again, good job ea. You have a way of tainting everything you touch.
@the guy with the hat
I'll see your "don't ever go to the forums" and raise you a "just don't ever use Origin (hallowed are the Ori)"
I guess it is really nice and all that they are seeing fit to allow people to play the games they purchased. See doesn't everyone who voted for EA as the worst company of 2011 feel sheepish now that they have extended this olive branch......
In B4 someone bitches about that poll and how BOA is so much more evil and I have to point out that Monsanto wasn't even on that list so their griping is invalid.
I'll see your "don't ever go to the forums" and raise you a "just don't ever use Origin (hallowed are the Ori)"
I guess it is really nice and all that they are seeing fit to allow people to play the games they purchased. See doesn't everyone who voted for EA as the worst company of 2011 feel sheepish now that they have extended this olive branch......
In B4 someone bitches about that poll and how BOA is so much more evil and I have to point out that Monsanto wasn't even on that list so their griping is invalid.
Sure, they can play offine. They just can't ever register another Origin game ever again without creating a new account. Yeah, that makes Origin worth it! You know what else you can play offline? GOG games and Indie games.
@ctg867
I think it was right around the time they started thinking Steam was acceptable.
@ctg867
I think it was right around the time they started thinking Steam was acceptable.
Well... at least it sounds like they fixed it so that it's the same now as most any other service. An account ban is for online, but offline is still fine.
still... as Ace829 points out, it depends what the ban is for in the first place. Certainly forum activity should have no impact whatsoever on someone's ability to play their games... that's what a ban from a forum is for.
still... as Ace829 points out, it depends what the ban is for in the first place. Certainly forum activity should have no impact whatsoever on someone's ability to play their games... that's what a ban from a forum is for.
it's really sad that EA is taking the name of a company i used to absolutely love and associating with such a putrid, festering mess of a product. lord british why did you have to sell? :(
Guessing this doesn't apply to people that want to go about modding their single player games? You bought and paid for the game, I can see people being removed from multiplayer for potentially abusive mods, but why even bother trying to enforce this for offline gaming?
@TheRemix
Thing is its not the game mods its not hacking or cheating (tho I suspect those would and should get you banned from online play) its was for as little as typing something in the forums that Either violated the TOS or EA didn't like (see violated the TOS)
In theory I could have had an Origin account (LMFAO) and posted lets say "EA SUCKS DONKEY NUTZ!" in the forums and logged in the next day to find out I didn't have access to ANY of the games I paid for.... online or offline.
....... Now they have so graciously decided to just suspend the multiplayer aspect of games when someone offends someone on the internet via forums... ~.~
Thing is its not the game mods its not hacking or cheating (tho I suspect those would and should get you banned from online play) its was for as little as typing something in the forums that Either violated the TOS or EA didn't like (see violated the TOS)
In theory I could have had an Origin account (LMFAO) and posted lets say "EA SUCKS DONKEY NUTZ!" in the forums and logged in the next day to find out I didn't have access to ANY of the games I paid for.... online or offline.
....... Now they have so graciously decided to just suspend the multiplayer aspect of games when someone offends someone on the internet via forums... ~.~
So, basically anyone who owns BF3 is still banned because they accidentally joined a hacked server. This isn't much better, EA.
Maybe I am a bad person, but I will pirate every game that is origin exclusive on pc. I don't care for this shitty steam ripoff and won't finance a company that is laying stones in my way (same for Ubi Soft -> Get your shit together - at least on pc).
not good enough EA, you really need to do better for me to take up Origin.
Until EA can start treating its customers properlly theres no way im gonna buy any game thats tied to an account that they can pull the plug for whatever retarded reason they can come up with.
Until EA can start treating its customers properlly theres no way im gonna buy any game thats tied to an account that they can pull the plug for whatever retarded reason they can come up with.
Games are good to play sometimes. But we need to manage our time and spend just a little for games.
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