Whoa! Imagine this being done on a PS3/360/Wii, and possibly losing everything you own?

I wonder if Dayvee has an EA account? LOL

I am so not getting Dragon Age Origins 2 or anything tied to an EA account!

http://gamingbolt.com/ea-bans-player-from-playing-dragon-age-2-for-calling-them-devil

"So.
My other account got suspended yesterday for 72 hours. My suspended v_ware account has all my Bioware games registered to it. My other games are Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening. I have played every game off Bioware since KOTOR, which is my favourite game of all time.

Since I have these other games and off course have played the DA2 demo, my previously unlocked DA2 content is assigned to this account.

When I got the mail I was curieus. I wanted to know what I did that was offensive. The mail stated that I was suspended for inappropriate content. There was no further explenation to what the particular reason was.

On EA Live Chat they told me that that I said: “Have you sold your souls to the EA devil?” (This is a quote, don’t suspend me again)

Now, those are the words I said, you can’t argue with that. I’m not going to try and sugarcoat that, let me just say in my defense, I have always been a pretty reasonable person on this forum. So I agree that you guys suspended my account from the forums for 72 hours. Btw, this is the first time I got suspended.

What I don’t agree with is that I can’t activate my new DA2 game.

This is the deal. I just got my Bioware Signature Edition from the store. I allready knew I was going to play it without the extra content since I can’t activate my extra codes. What I did not know was that I needed to activate the game before being abble to play it. So now I’ve got a dead game for 50 euros. Pity.

So for your consideration. Please let someone who payed for his game at least play it "

"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.

End of line. "


The new and improved King of Lamers 2003!

I refuse to buy anything that has DRM anyways.

>
> Whoa! Imagine this being done on a PS3/360/Wii, and possibly losing everything
> you own?
>
> I wonder if Dayvee has an EA account? LOL
>
> I am so not getting Dragon Age Origins 2 or anything tied to an EA account!
>
http:> //gamingbolt.com/ea-bans-player-from-playing-dragon-age-2-for-calling-them-devil
>
> "So.
> My other account got suspended yesterday for 72 hours. My suspended v_ware
> account has all my Bioware games registered to it. My other games are Mass
> Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening. I have played every game off
> Bioware since KOTOR, which is my favourite game of all time.
>
> Since I have these other games and off course have played the DA2 demo, my
> previously unlocked DA2 content is assigned to this account.
>
> When I got the mail I was curieus. I wanted to know what I did that was
> offensive. The mail stated that I was suspended for inappropriate content. There
> was no further explenation to what the particular reason was.
>
> On EA Live Chat they told me that that I said: “Have you sold your souls to the
> EA devil?” (This is a quote, don’t suspend me again)
>
> Now, those are the words I said, you can’t argue with that. I’m not going to try
> and sugarcoat that, let me just say in my defense, I have always been a pretty
> reasonable person on this forum. So I agree that you guys suspended my account
> from the forums for 72 hours. Btw, this is the first time I got suspended.
>
> What I don’t agree with is that I can’t activate my new DA2 game.
>
> This is the deal. I just got my Bioware Signature Edition from the store. I
> allready knew I was going to play it without the extra content since I can’t
> activate my extra codes. What I did not know was that I needed to activate the
> game before being abble to play it. So now I’ve got a dead game for 50 euros.
> Pity.
>
> So for your consideration. Please let someone who payed for his game at least
> play it "
>
> "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.
>
> End of line. "
>
>
> The new and improved King of Lamers 2003!
>

Well a perfect case of another reason to add to why I don't bother buying high end video cards and shit anymore to do PC gaming. If keeping up with the parts and the using people as pay to play beta testers for the lazy assholes wasn't bad enough -- this is. Personally, if the guy had a brain, he'd start hunting down a greedy as shit lawyer willing to fire up a bunch of angry nerds into a class action lawsuit over it. Terms of the game are not tied to terms of the message board. Buying anything gaming means you're stuck (which should be made illegal too or make that for all products) as you can't return stuff if it's open. So you buy a game, get banned (temp or fully) on that board, and you're shit out of luck on having a $50 drink coaster and a box. What if someone is being a twat from your IP area, EA bans it, and then suddenly say 100 people can't login to play that game...they sure won't give a shit as they got your trapped money because you opened the box.

If they started doing this shit on consoles I'd start waiting to find out if X game had these potential issues and I'd refuse to buy it permanently, or until a retraction of the policy was made. I may not steal shit, but if someone in my area does on the same IP range then I could be SOL too by proxy.



Billy Connolly - Statement of the Century
"If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking, how come they can't have a headache and sex at the same time ?"

> I refuse to buy anything that has DRM anyways.

Me too. I don't use Steam, or anything that tries to control what I do with my own software.

I would think this warrants a lawsuit, actually.

*Edit* - EA called this a "glitch" and activated the player's game --> http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/bioware-says-player-ban-from-dragon-age-ii-is-a-glitch/

But I still say when people pay for and subject themselves to DRM like this, they shouldn't be surprised when this kind of bullshit happens to them.

(h1)

It's been a while.

> > I refuse to buy anything that has DRM anyways.
>
> Me too. I don't use Steam, or anything that tries to control what I do with my
> own software.
>
> I would think this warrants a lawsuit, actually.
>
> *Edit* - EA called this a "glitch" and activated the player's game -->
http://w> ww.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/bioware-says-player-ban-from-dragon-age-ii-is-a-glitch/
>
> But I still say when people pay for and subject themselves to DRM like this,
> they shouldn't be surprised when this kind of bullshit happens to them.
>
> (h1)
>