Electronic Arts has been catching heat for its stupid policy that bans customers from their legally bought games if they break rules on the forums. Despite all the bad publicity, however, EA isn't fixing the issue -- it's getting worse.
The latest victim of EA's ridiculous behavior is is a chap called Aaron who got banned because somebody else swore. Someone abused Aaron on EA's forum with a swear-flavored rant and included his username at the end. Rather than ban the offender, they banned the recipient of the abuse simply because his username was at the scene of the crime. LOGIC!
Aaron is unable to access Battlefield 3 or Bad Company 2, despite the latter being purchased on Steam. He has been informed that the ban is permanent.
Electronic Arts, ladies and gentlemen. The anus that keeps on shitting!
EA now issuing permanent Origin bans through content filter [Escapist Forums]
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12:30 PM on 12.05.2011 | 
So, No Bulletstorm 2?
And instead of me getting banned, Epic-Kx takes the fall? Wtf?
Wow EA, that's a new version of victim-blaming for ya.
EA has far surpassed Activision as the evil publisher at this point. Activision has done nothing heinous this entire year (that I can recall). All Activision has done is sit back and let EA make fools of themselves. So far it's been working.
I say let's give credit where credit is due, give Activision a break (for now) and give EA the new crown of worst gaming company ever that it's been working ever so hard to get.
Jim Sterling.
Keep on preaching Jim
Grow a spine and boycott. I don't care if Mass Effect 2 was your favorite game of all time. Apply some self control, find some other games to play, and stand up for what you know is right.
Someone who doesn't care about EA games goes and makes an account on their forums, then proceeds to make a profanity laden thread, and then add a list of eery username they can find on the forums and in games to the end of it. That way a mass amount of people get banned by their auto-banning software, creating a humongous uproar among the community.
Problem soled.
It's not that mod's fault that a forum ban results in a ban from a game you paid for. That is EA policy.
It's also not that mod's fault that EA hasn't corrected this issue yet. And I haven't looked, but I imagine the mod still holds his position and hasn't been reprimanded yet.
Of course, by funny, I mean tragic.
EA is not a saint and IF this is true is idiotic. But I think before getting in arms to be sure the story is true.
that mod is protected by EA's terms of service, general policies, and customer service. If that mod went against EA's standard policies, then the mod would be banned and all people who would be banned would be compensated. That still has yet to happen, so until then the company is going to have to answer for, and take responsibility for its employees as long as consumers are having their products taken away from them.
Our own accounts would probably get banned first, but if this story is to be believed, then we could probably get away with locking a few dozen users out before the fault with that system is found.
HARD HITTING JOURNALISM!
So you can kiss my patronage for 2012 goodbye (much like my patronage from 2005,06,07,08,09,10 & 11), yup just sit back and watch me direct my dollars elsewhere you sacks of fucking shit.
Fair warring to developers if your publisher is EA .... I'm just putting your box down right there.... your game could be pure gold and that sucks for me but screw EA.
"Yep, because one ban-happy forum mod = all of EA."
There's 2 interlinked issues here:
1) Getting banned from the forum banns you from your games.
2) He was banned by the language checker software, not a Moderator, automatically because he was mentioned in a ban-able post.
Still think this isn't EA's problem?