EA Forcing Good Behavior: Get Banned on their Forum and You're Banned from their Games

Nostradavis - 423 days 4 hours ago

Couldn't agree with you more. I have had my account banned so many times on a sports team forum that I don't even remember what account is active anymore.

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The Matrix - 422 days 23 hours ago

Indeed, I can't count the amount of times I've been banned from forums for flaming final fantasy, but I've since learned to control my anonymity. This world is full of people without morals so what EA is doing is a good idea.

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Tony P - 422 days 23 hours ago

I agree. A corporate-owned forum is not exactly unbiased. I've seen forums wherein the poster can face a ban for simply saying something 'anti-(company name here)'. I don't know if this is the way EA does business, but I'm also not willing to chance it. I'd rather be able to post my honest opinions than face a constant fear that they could kill my gaming experience.

Stuff like this makes me think it's a bad idea gaming ever came out of the basement.

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JsonHenry - 422 days 21 hours ago

As a regular member of the EA command and conquer forums I can tell you that you really have to do/say stupid stuff (repeatedly) to get banned. I think they are doing this as a way to get rid of hackers IMO.

And if they banned everyone that trashed EA on their forums NO ONE would be playing online.

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vhero - 422 days 21 hours ago

what a nice way to say you know all that cash you pay us to play our games? we dont want it thats really how to run a business.... I really cannot see this happening it would be business suicide there online side of gaming is becoming a huge part of their profits and to ban their members would kill their sales!

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ThanatosDMC - 422 days 18 hours ago

Yes! Exactly! If we cant express ourselves and cant complain about the problems in their game, then we dont bother with them.

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sidar - 423 days ago

The one who disagreed with you and the first two above...
WTF? the guy who is disagreeing is either from EA or just a brainless monkey.

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madjedi - 422 days 13 hours ago

I don't know what is more idoitic ea stooping to this new even lower level, or the gamers that actually are in favor of this heavy handed dictatorial mentality.

Once they ban you from their forums, your master account is banned and any games on that account will, permanetly no longer be functional online, until you rebuy those games again.

Okay your wanting human to balance it, right good luck with that all it takes ia a bad at work, fight with the spouse ect, and any sense of balance goes out the window.

Say if you and one of your buddies starts talking politics every game for a while and this has irritated me and others from the get go.

Is it fair then, that since it annoys me and several others you and you buddies accounts are banned and the online portion of any game tied to said account is rendered useless.

What is to keep ea from expanding it past their own forums or even to psn or live? Do the people who have agreed with this action, even have point to which they, i refuse to tolerate this behavoir any further?

Ea was doing alot better this year one the ps3 side, but their killing any goodwill they have left with pc gaming crowd with spores drm/red alerts 3's botched launch and now this bs.

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moe84 - 422 days 21 hours ago

EA, just make sure that picture up there pops up on the players screen. Humor makes everything better.

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Tsalagi - 422 days 21 hours ago

You support it now but when you accidentally say or do something that you thought was ok (but was hidden away in the fine print of the TOS) and get banned from your games you'll be screaming lawsuit.

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moe84 - 422 days 21 hours ago

Actually, no I wont be screaming lawsuit. I don't go to EA's forums first of all. And I don't play EA games online very often. And when I do, they are PC games, and I rarely.... rarely "chat". I go to play, not talk.

Hell I played WoW for over 2 years. Started my fair share of drama both in game, and forums. Being suspended or even banned, would have been good. For both the WoW community and myself. I've also heard Xbox Live chatter. If EA could help lessen the kind of senseless, ignorant jerk offs who speak through their ass in some of their games. More power to them. More companies should do things like this. Especially those supporting Xbox Live.

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Captain_Sony - 422 days 13 hours ago

You guys just do not get it. You think it only applies to people who say something really bad and deserve it... That's not the case at all. Maybe you didn't hear about a month or two back people went to their website to complain about the DRM in Spore. EA threatened to ban those people over their legitimate complaints. I cannot believe that any gamer would agree with them on a policy that basically says that you have to love their games while on their site because if you voice your unhappiness about any of the products you PAID for they will just take them away from you. I don't play EA games online. I do not go to their forums either. I just know that it isn't right, even if it doesnt affect me personally. That is one of the biggest problems with the world today. People have no problem watching someone else suffer as long as it isn't them, but then when it is them look around and wonder why nobody is backing them up..

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madjedi - 422 days 13 hours ago

@7.4 Thank you it's nice to see the gaming community isn't entirely stupid, i rarly play pc games anymore, regardless this is not acceptable by any means.

This is no different if activision blocked players from online access because of people complaining about cod4 or guitar hero 3.

Maybe if they(ea) or other corporations start expanding it to live or psn the people around here will open their eyes.

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