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EA: Forum Ban Equals Game Bans - Updated

[Oct 30, 2008, 11:09 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Update: EA has corrected this report, saying APOC's statement is not accurate. Original Story: A post on the EA Support Forums from APOC, online community manager for Electronic Arts, outlines a new policy for their new forums, saying users who earn a ban based on their behavior in the forums will be locked out of all of the EA games tied to that account. Thanks Ripten. Word is:

Well, its actually going to be a bit nastier for those who get banned.

Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you'd actually be banned from your other EA games as well since its all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It's all one in the same, so I strongly reccommend people play nice and act mature.

All in all, we expect people to come on here and abide by our ToS. We hate banning people, it makes our lives a lot tougher, but its what we have to do.

Those banned will stay banned, but like most other internet services, its not that hard to create a new fake e-mail account. However, its a lot harder to get a new serial key =)

Avatars should be back within 2 weeks of the launch.

-APOC

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Re: EA Forum/Game Bans

Oct 31, 2008, 14:36

Tigger

I meant, privilege, not a freedom. Go back and re-read my post Tigger.
How that ONE word just stood out at you, I'll never know.

OK, I re-read your post. Here is what you said:

Freedom of speech as per the private sector is a freedom not a right, agreed.

and

Edit 2: I wonder if we could get Jack Thompson to fight for our rights to freedom of speech in a private sector?

Nowhere does it say anything about it being a privilege.

Nowhere does it even imply that you think it is a privilege.

Right and privilege have 2 completely different meanings. So if you meant privilege, then you just don't communicate well. If that's the case, then I'm sorry that I misunderstood your poor communication.




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Comment [quote="Tigger"Oct 31, 2008, 14:36]q[I meant, privilege, not a freedom. Go back and re-read my post Tigger. How that ONE word just stood out at you, I'll never know. ]q OK, I re-read your post. Here is what you said: q[b[Freedom of speech as per the private sector is a freedom not a right, agreed.]b]q and q[Edit 2: I wonder if we could get Jack Thompson to b[fight for our rights to freedom of speech in a private sector?]b]q Nowhere does it say anything about it being a privilege. Nowhere does it even imply that you think it is a privilege. b[Right]b and b[privilege]b have 2 completely different meanings. So if you i[meant]i privilege, then you just don't communicate well. If that's the case, then I'm sorry that I misunderstood your poor communication. [/quote]

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