deanb Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Yeah. That's my point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Yeah. That's my point. What? So why are gamrFeed reporting this as if he is still banned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Wait. Have we kinda missed something somewhere? There's multiple guys. Since the initial ban cropped up last week other guys have been creeping out the woodwork. The initial "sold your souls" guy got his overturned, I dunno on the others yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Riiiight. So yeah what I'm saying is, CS have been heavy handed in the past, but you need to take these people coming out of the woodwork on a case by case basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Arno: Made comment on selling soul to EA Devil. Get's forum & game ban. After press coverage this ban is later removed. James/Cipher86: MAde poll on women smelling like fish whars. Got a forum and PS3 DLC ban (obviously can't ban you from whole game on console. yet) As far as I know still not resolved. tez19: Insulted other players on forums. Gets forum and game ban. Told to never contact EA again. So there's the case by case stuff. And I think anyone can quite confidently come out and say not one of them should ever have had any of their game access revoked. It once again comes down to the game industry once again thinking it's special. No other industry would you say "BMW have raped the design on the mini, they should burn in hell" and wake up the next day to find a tow truck taking away your car. "Ray Kurzwiel is a lunatic spreading FUD" and poof my bookshelf is short one book. "peter jackson should burn in hell for mainstreaming the hobbit....oh hey LotR won't play anymore.". It just doesn't work like that. Why should games be any different. Why should we ever accept this kind of action? Just because they have the capability to disable your games, doesn't mean they should, doesn't mean they shouldn't threaten it in the EULA, and most definitely doesn't mean they should give the capability to CS. Ban them from the forum if you want. It's a tertiary service to the game. But never ever ever remove their access to their legally paid for games. Ever. EVER EVER EVER EVEREVEREVEREVER *breath EVEREVEREVEVERVER. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 1. Yeah, we don't know the whole story in either of those cases, we know some of one side of the story. 2. Games are a service, not a product. EA don't come and take your copy of the game. Remember, you and others often argue that piracy is not stealing. Cutting off access to a service isn't stealing either.It's more like making abusive calls on your mobile and getting cut off, or your ISP cutting off your connection for violating their terms of use. 3. As has been previously stated, they can create new accounts, they can play games offline, their games have not been stolen, they can still play them, the way they can use those games has been restricted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Cutting off access to any legitimately purchased single-player content, whether the main game or DLC, is ri-fucking-diculous regardless of what behavior you're trying to punish, or whether you call it a product or a service. End of story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Cutting off access to any legitimately purchased single-player content, whether the main game or DLC, is ri-fucking-diculous regardless of what behavior you're trying to punish, or whether you call it a product or a service. End of story. Call it ridiculous if you like, those are the rules you agree to every time you install a game. Not saying I agree with the practice, but they are operating within the terms of the agreement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted March 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Cutting off access to any legitimately purchased single-player content, whether the main game or DLC, is ri-fucking-diculous regardless of what behavior you're trying to punish, or whether you call it a product or a service. End of story. Call it ridiculous if you like, those are the rules you agree to every time you install a game. Not saying I agree with the practice, but they are operating within the terms of the agreement. And it's also immoral by the way. Even more immoral than piracy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Cutting off access to any legitimately purchased single-player content, whether the main game or DLC, is ri-fucking-diculous regardless of what behavior you're trying to punish, or whether you call it a product or a service. End of story. Call it ridiculous if you like, those are the rules you agree to every time you install a game. Not saying I agree with the practice, but they are operating within the terms of the agreement. I know, and the fact that EA seems to be willing to do that is making me rethink buying EA games. And it's making me quite happy I decided to hold off on purchasing DA2. Regardless of whether they're legally entitled to do this, choosing to do so means I won't be buying their products (or "services"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Cutting off access to any legitimately purchased single-player content, whether the main game or DLC, is ri-fucking-diculous regardless of what behavior you're trying to punish, or whether you call it a product or a service. End of story. Call it ridiculous if you like, those are the rules you agree to every time you install a game. Not saying I agree with the practice, but they are operating within the terms of the agreement. And it's also immoral by the way. Even more immoral than piracy. What makes it immoral? Bringing morality into this is a whole different argument in my eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excaliburps Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 The guy who got banned emailed me and told me what he experienced. Update is on the page itself. http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story.php?story=84936 I asked him what specific incident he did that got him banned. He said he doesn't know aside from what he told me. Could he be lying? Yep. Any way of knowing for sure? A bit unlikely as the thread he started has been taken down and EA has not been replying. Kinda odd if he does get a permanent ban and all he did was this. Not saying it's right. But just that something doesn't smell right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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