crownjules
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This isn't anything new. Just remember it next time it comes time to open the wallet for an EA product.
Right. With Star Wars: The Old Republic coming out in less than two weeks.
This isn't anything new. Just remember it next time it comes time to open the wallet for an EA product.
Just because it's in the EULA it doesn't mean it's legal.
Right. With Star Wars: The Old Republic coming out in less than two weeks.
But.....when you "buy" a game from Origin, you're not really buying the game....you're buying a license to run the software on your machine(s). You violate the terms of the license, you lose the license and rights associated with it.
I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying that's probably how EA views it.
Right. With Star Wars: The Old Republic coming out in less than two weeks.
Right. With Star Wars: The Old Republic coming out in less than two weeks.
I have no problem with this. If TOR is Origin only, then I'll give my business elsewhere. Same goes for ME3.
Don't get banned?
EA is teh devil.
lol EA. They make it too easy to not like them.
Don't use Origin :]
It blows my mind that even after all of EA's consumer horror-stories and fuckups have been brought to light, people still buy their stuff. Seriously guys? If EA is really that evil, and they bother you that much, then stop supporting them. Period. Either buy their games and put up with their BS, or take your gaming elsewhere. It boggles my mind that people still willingly give them their money despite knowing the shit they've pulled off.
Edit: And isn't ME3 even more dumbed-down than ME2? It's not really an RPG anymore, is it? Last time I checked, Bioware basically admitted that ME3 is basically a shooter.
I don't think they should link the forums and access to purchased products, but it's also not an issue when you don't get involved in rule-breaking forum activities.
So, I disagree with them and support changing it, but it's not a reason to me not to buy from them.
Pirate all of their games out of spite.
That'l learn em.
How is quoting somebody's response breaking any rule?I don't think they should link the forums and access to purchased products, but it's also not an issue when you don't get involved in rule-breaking forum activities.
So, I disagree with them and support changing it, but it's not a reason to me not to buy from them.
How is quoting somebody's response breaking any rule?
Example:
Spidey: I hate interracial gay marriage, anyone who does it needs to be burned from the earth.
Craig234: Quotes Spidey in response. You've been added to my ignore list.
Both Spidey and Craig234 gets banned.
Another example(this is what was described in the OP actually):
Spidey: F*ck you Craig234!
EA mods give BOTH Spidey and Craig234 the banhammer.
What rule did Craig234 break?
Being an idiot.
It doesn't matter what you do on the forums. EA should not be able to take away people's games for what's done on the forums, and they need to be successfully sued if they don't stop.
So it's OK if you run someone over, but they don't take your property because you can't afford to pay damages in court?
He broke the rules, it sucks, but it's as simple as that.
He knowingly broke the rules, that's all that matter in the eyes of EA. Sadly...That's really twisting it to fit your argument. Getting banned from a forum does not cause EA or anyone else financial harm which requires indemnification out of the assets of the game owner/forumgoer. Running someone over and injuring them does; and indeed, they would not seize all your property, only that which is required to pay off a judgement. So you have zero financial damages to EA, and yet nevertheless there is the equivalent of seizing perhaps hundreds of dollars in games. Of course there is no physical seizure, you know what I mean.
This is morally wrong, and even if currently law allows it, that should be changed. The attitude that this is EA's rule and that's all there is to it is morally apathetic and wrong as well.