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Crysis 3 Crisis Averted

[Jan 30, 2013, 09:57 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Terms of Service for the new Crysis 3 open beta includes language about banning players for not reporting bugs, recalling the recently quelled controversy over the SimCity beta ToS threating a mab from all EA games for failure to report bugs. This new End-User License Agreement issue apparently has the same resolution as the previous one, as games.on.net notes a tweet explaining: "We did - it was baked into the Beta before we realized it had the 'Bug Ban' clause. We aren't enforcing that." They also link a follow-up tweet saying: "We'll be releasing a blog post about that soon, but for now rest assured we aren't banning players for finding bugs." So we now know why EULAs and ToSes are so lengthy: Even the people making the games can't be bothered to read the crap they let their lawyers stuff into them.

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24. Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted Jan 30, 2013, 14:39 Creston
 
Beamer wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 13:35:
But EA didn't ban anyone, did they?

Yes, they did. They banned several people from their forum (undoubtedly for good cause), and in doing so caused these people to lose access to all/some (reports on that were sketchy) their games through Origin.

When the media (the MEDIA, of all things!) bitched at EA about it, they tried to play it off by saying "oh, that's actually just a bug, hehe, no foul play here!" even though their fucking EULA specifically stated that it would happen, for which people bitched at EA (and mongrels defended EA for it.)

It took EA MONTHS to fix this "bug."

Edit : Actually, it took them over a YEAR.

It's lawyers being lawyers. Nothing more.

No, it is NOT just "lawyers being lawyers." Again, this has ALREADY FUCKING HAPPENED with EA. It baffles me how people keep putting their fingers in their ears, sing LALALALALAALLA really loudly, and pretend like there's nothing going on.

From RPS: A number of people had contacted us to say that their forum bans (both justified and mystifying) were locking them out of their online gaming, and that their attempts to find out why from EA’s customer support were met with silence or nonsense. Ignoring the question of the legality of preventing access to a purchased product (something I’m looking into), the confusion really lay in EA’s previous assurances that they would not be doing this after the “error” in March

The error they referred to was the EULA that said "If we ban you from the forum, you lose all your access to your games!" People cried out about it, EA did the 'tut tut, we'll never do that' routine, idiots defended EA and played the "Oh, you guys are always after poor, misunderstood EA" bullshit card, and then EA did that exact fucking thing.

But hey, keep saying that it's crazy, and that EA won't do that, even though, you know, they actually have a confirmed fucking history of doing it. Ostrich Policy works just fine for our politicians, no reason it can't work here either, right?

Final edit: In case you're still confused, and think that EA does this because it doesn't know what's in its ToS, here's a response from EA's customer support, to a guy whose account got permanently banned (including his games, and his BF3 characters)

"“This action was necessary due to the repeated nature of the offense on the account. We regret having to take this final step, but it is entirely necessary on behalf of protecting the Electronic Arts Online community. The violation has already been discussed above so further communication on this matter won’t be entertained. We thank you for your understanding on all the statutes within the Terms of Service, and they still contractually apply to you as per the original agreement, especially the sections regarding terminated members of the service.”

Creston

This comment was edited on Jan 30, 2013, 14:54. 		 
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