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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2011, 06:10:32 PM » |
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Gotta love EA. Gotta love DRM.
Taking criticism and insults is for small companies.
Edit: I now feel pretty motivated to never, ever buy an EA-published game again.
Edit 2: He was actually correct in his original remark (which he got super-banned for). Bioware have sold their souls to the EA devil. Looks like they jumped on the chance of proving their worth to the devil.
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2011, 06:27:27 PM » |
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Banned guy: On EA Live Chat they told me that that I said: "Have you sold your souls to the EA devil?" Bioware Guy: 2. EA Community bans come down from a different department and are the result of someone hitting the REPORT POST button. These bans can affect access to your game and/or DLC.
Because the BioWare community now operates under the same umbrella as all EA Communities, community members here have all explicitly agreed to abide by and be governed by both sets of rules. Consider it an added incentive to follow the rules you say you're going to follow. Translation: Yes, we have sold our souls to the EA Devil. Fuck you very much. |
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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2011, 07:14:03 PM » |
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Hey, Bioware. Fuck you.I've never bought a Bioware product. What are you gonna do, bitches?  You have been placed on several FBI watch lists. Don't talk shit about Bioware.« Last Edit: Today at 07:15:53 PM by EA » |
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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2011, 07:15:20 PM » |
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Banning your customers from playing *single player* seems a bit... stupid. Like, "We clearly don't care what sort of PR this generates"-stupid. But I guess EA doesn't really care much about their image. Their marketing kinda tells the whole story. And I don't really see much reason to make a distinction between Bioware and EA anymore, but that's just me.  |
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I'd write a devlog about my current game, but I'm too busy making it.
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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2011, 07:20:53 PM » |
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What the hell did I just read? Guy can't access his games because he criticized the company for doing stupid shit? First of all, banning people over criticism is what 13 year old DA tartlets do, and two, that's petty, short-sighted, and ultimately suicidal for a company to engage in.  2. EA Community bans come down from a different department and are the result of someone hitting the REPORT POST button. These bans can affect access to your game and/or DLC. How does that make any sense at all. |
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2011, 08:57:52 PM » |
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At least the game he's been forbidden to play is just...
Dragon Age II.
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2011, 09:02:21 PM » |
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wow that is terrible. Almost as terrible as KOTOR.
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2011, 09:22:14 PM » |
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Has Bioware just done something illegal? I assume not, but I feel sure that there's some legal constraint preventing companies from crippling a single copy of their product in response to criticism.
edit: vvv I'm sorry, I hadn't seen that part! vvv
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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2011, 09:43:13 PM » |
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I'm not sure if I misread something but didn't it say he only lost access to them for 72 hours, and he was complaining mostly because it coincided with his buying of a new game and not being able to play it immediately?
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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2011, 09:49:52 PM » |
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I like how the moderator's response was: Please review the EA Community Terms of Service, particularly sections #9 and #11. There are two levels of enforcement here:
1. BioWare community bans are forum-only and can be for as little as 24 hours. These bans should have no effect on your game, only your ability to use all the features of this website/community. these bans are handed out by BioWare Moderators as the result of our travels around the forum and/or issues reported by fellow community members.
2. EA Community bans come down from a different department and are the result of someone hitting the REPORT POST button. These bans can affect access to your game and/or DLC.
Because the BioWare community now operates under the same umbrella as all EA Communities, community members here have all explicitly agreed to abide by and be governed by both sets of rules. Consider it an added incentive to follow the rules you say you're going to follow.
If there are further questions or concerns, please send them to me via private message. Thank you.
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2011, 10:30:05 PM » |
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So the real problem here right is that getting banned, tempbanned, whatever, from the EA forums means you're locked out of your EA games?
That's... really incredibly stupid, isn't it? The lesson seems to be to never log on to an EA forum at all, it's not worth the risk D:
Although really I'd be inclined to just not buy a game at all if the developer has the ability to remotely disable my copy for any reason :|
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« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2011, 11:54:23 PM » |
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That's why you shouldn't even buy EA games (I don't mean you shouldn't play them)
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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2011, 01:24:28 AM » |
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« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2011, 01:34:30 AM » |
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It all sounds pretty over-the-top but the way the world is heading, nothing is shocking or surprising anymore.
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« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2011, 01:59:55 AM » |
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Dang...  good thing I haven't been interested in anything bioware's made since KOTOR... |
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« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2011, 03:03:01 AM » |
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What amazes me is that the EA suit can't see how mind-blowingly ridiculous the rule is. Comments made on the internet mean paying customers can't play the game at home, on there own. So basically if you don't lick EAs proverbial butt all the time they take their ball in and you don't get to play. Is EA run by 12 year olds? No wait, I think that might be insulting to 12 year olds.
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« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2011, 05:11:19 AM » |
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Dang... good thing I haven't been interested in anything bioware's made since KOTOR... Dragon Age is incredibly boring but both Mass Effect games are really, really good. This is some bullshit behaviour to be sure, but it does strike me as EA's bullshit more than BioWare's bullshit, and BioWare do kind of have to do what EA says at the moment, what with EA paying their salaries and everything. It sucks, but it is what it is. |
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« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2011, 06:42:25 AM » |
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Which brings us back to the original remark:
They have sold their souls to the EA devil.
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« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2011, 06:51:41 AM » |
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They have accepted an enormous amount of money to allow them to make the games they want to make, and this enormous amount of money comes with certain stipulations. That's kind of what having a job is like, in my experience, but hey, if reductionist and reactionary shit like "selling out" as a concept gets you through the day.
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