EA would never sell your personally identifiable information to anyone, nor would it ever use spyware or install spyware on users' machines. We and agents acting on our behalf do not share information that personally identifies you without your consent, except in rare instances where disclosure is required by law or to enforce EA's legal rights.
But i admit i was trolling this topic because i love poking at EA haters, they all will buy BF3 anyway (if they even remotely ever cared about Battlefield that is)
eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 28, 2011, 23:40:
Yeah those people haven't provided one example how EA violated their family or homes yet though I am just extremely pissed when people rant and rant without actually providing at least a proper anecdote.
Having your feelings insulted by imaginary moral values that are not met by a corporation (like thats a surprise ,p) is not a proper rant-reason. Nor is it an anecdote, or a logical non-flawed argument.
But i admit i was trolling this topic because i love poking at EA haters, they all will buy BF3 anyway (if they even remotely ever cared about Battlefield that is)
eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 28, 2011, 09:13:I'm pretty sure you're either trolling or shilling at this point. Nobody could accidentally miss the dozens of times people in this thread have made it clear that they're hating on EA because they have had consistently poor policy and leadership for years. It doesn't matter one bit that Valve's EULA is similar, nor is their lack of mastery over the world currency market at all relevant. Valve has proven through their deeds that they are a better company to buy from than EA. The only name in the industry I trust less than EA is Activision.
So you just hate on EA because its in
RogNog wrote on Aug 28, 2011, 13:31:
Would'nt argue with that, but they have moved in the right direction.
eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 28, 2011, 08:15:
Then google "steam account suspended" .. a company that holds my games hostage with my only recourse (am European) is a lawsuit is NOT better than EA. The fun-fact is that Steam has no right to suspend your account if it in inhibits access to the games in it without compensation. But steam explicitly (and illegally) excludes any compensation via their TOS. Worse they claim that you do not own the content in your account, even though the one who doesn't own it is Steam and not you.
*that* is somehow less evil than EA's hilarious data-mining thingy or the 2 year account pruning (which is standard for all online services, sadly not for steam which is a whole nother reason for issues (dead-mail provider/forgotten password and your account is unrecoverable) ?
eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 28, 2011, 00:00:
If people accepted steam they have no logical argument not to accept Origin though
I never had any issues with EA games so yeah... maybe i just got lucky. I don't like Origin for that matter, but its where BF3 is on, and in some way i am glad theres a bit competition to Steam... Steam isn't exactly a better system, they are just as evil in their TOS, read the part about account suspension and compensation...
eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 27, 2011, 22:35:I don't care what they say they're going to do. If the EULA says they can do that, I don't trust them not to. I wouldn't trust Valve with something like that, and they've always been much better to their customers than EA. They need to unfuck the language in their EULA or I'm not biting.
You know whats funny, i intended to add a link as edit but for the life of me, i can't find where exactly it was ,)
But heres the quote for you, which for some reason, google won't findThe Origin terms of service are designed to protect against misuse of the Origin system. No Origin user who has paid entitlements and/or downloaded games will have their account cancelled or games expired due to extended non-use. The term regarding account cancellation for non-use is designed to guard against creation of non-active accounts for inappropriate reasons.
eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 28, 2011, 00:00:The logical argument is that Steam is better and EA is an awful company. If you'd stop playing stone deaf for two seconds, you'd see that we've been saying that the whole time. I don't even need to read Steam's EULA to know that. I've been using it for a long time now and Valve has sufficiently proven during that period that they have no foul intentions.
If people accepted steam they have no logical argument not to accept Origin though