Here's a curious one for you. There is a fresh new rumor circulating the Innernetz concerning Electronic Arts and a new policy that allows them to ban you from their videogames if they ban you from their forums.
A quote allegedly attributed to Command & Conquer community manager Aaron Kaufman states that forum accounts are being directly tied to Master EA accounts, which would mean that if you were banned from the publisher's message board for whatever reason, the blacklisting would automatically extend to your online game access.
In other words, message board trolls would have to play the likes of Spore and Red Alert 3 all alone.
If true, this is very harsh and I don't know what to make of it. On the one hand, it's always fun to give a forum troll his comeuppance, but on the other, EA provides no details on what is a bannable offense, and I just can't see banning someone from a game they bought, even if they acted like a moron on the Internet, to be all that fair.
We'll have to wait for an official confirmation, but in the meantime, I'd advise C&C fans to not be dicks. Just in case.
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1:04 PM on 10.30.2008
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EA shouldn't have placed DRM in their games in the first place. It actually punishes the people who buy the game quite a bit.
Personal example; A long time ago, I got banned from the Ubi forums for requesting to have a friend unbanned (who himself was banned for disagreeing with a moderator on the topic of religion). If that meant I couldn't play any Ubi games, I would be unable to play dozens of games.
You wouldn't have to be a troll to get burned by this. But we'll see.
I wanted to buy Spore, but I'm glad now I didn't. I don't think EA deserves my money, I don't think the developers that choose to work for this scumbag company deserve my money either.
The fact that they can do something like this (because people STILL for some reason buy their DRM ridden garbage), and take control from their end, is a good indicator as to where this once awesome industry is headed.
Solved.
this is just going to prove that we don't buy games anymore we buy the privilege to play a game and they can take it away with out refund whenever they want.
This is absolute rubbish. What's the next step EA?
Go ahead and fuckin' do it then you little bitches, and as soon as you alienate your whole fucking consumer base what are you gonna do? Beg and plead? Aside from that being very enjoyable you're just burning yourself.
They're a bunch of asses...
...and they're dumb...
...they're.....DUMBASSES
The only upside is that people who post garbage on the sites and swear are mostly the ones to be annoying in game...
So, it being wholly up to their discretion, if someone politely brought up a legitimate grievance with an EA product and it started to become a popular issue for more of the members on an EA board; what's to stop EA from banning that person's accounts in spite, & claiming they gave due warning?
Banning trolls yes, banning anybody who doesn't portray EA as a shining beacon of gaming & embrace PC breaking DRM w/ open arms no.