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EA Not Banning Game Access for Forum Hijinks
by Chris Faylor, Oct 30, 2008 6:41pm PDTUpdate: EA community manager eaapoc, the bloke who started this whole affair, has acknowledged that his initial threat was "inaccurate and a mistake on my part."
"If we suspend or ban you from the forums, that does not affect your in-game account and certainly it does not impact your in-game account for other games," reads a new post. "I had a misunderstanding with regards to our new upcoming forums and website and never meant to infer that if we ban or suspend you on the forums, you would be banned in-game as well. This is not correct, my mistake, my bad."
Original Story: A forum moderator's threat that gamers could be banned from playing all of their EA-published games, such as Spore and C&C: Red Alert 3, for improper forum behavior was the result of a "misunderstanding," Electronic Arts tells Shacknews.
Explained Electronic Arts:
Posting in EA Forums is enabled by an EA Nucleus account -- but access to the forums and access to the games are separate. Players who have been banned from EA Forums are not automatically banned from online access to their other EA games. Players can be banned if they breach the Terms of Service or Code of Conduct in a forum, game or service. Each forum, game and service is managed independently by customer support representatives responsible for that specific forum, game or service.
A similar threat emerged earlier this year, after a Spore moderator threatened to ban users from the game if they discussed the title's controversial DRM on its official forums. EA quickly responded, explaining that post was made by an "over-zealous community volunteer" and was "absolutely not true or in-line with EA's moderation policy."
Comments
You like your job? Do it right! Don't go scaring the fucking daylights out of your COMPANY's loyal fans, and pissing off the general community by stating shit you "Aren't Clear About."
My god. Shit like this needs to be ironed out waaaaay before any fucktard runs out to make needless posts regarding company policy they don't understand.
These moderators need to understand this:
The people who come on those forums are mostly kids with nothing better to do.
Sure I play online, but being a damn near thirty year old gamer (old school, muthafucka), I work steady and frankly, couldn't give any less of a rats sauteed asshole (Carlin, muthafucka) about what forum posters and moderators do at Egalitarian Asshats. What's more is I keep a USB mic jack plugged into the console so I don't have to talk or listen to everybody else.
Now on the other hand, I do care about the freedoms that we gamers enjoy and want to ensure that things don't change too drastically.
Make your microtransactions, market your bullshit, whatever. Don't fuck with my freedoms. If I pay for it, I will not accept being banned from it, lest it was just and my words will never justify taking away what I've paid for.
My words don't come with a legal requirement. Once I've purchased the title. That's that.
Hell, if I stormed the Egomaniacal Alumni Sluts offices and pissed in the face of Peter Moore, I'd expect: An Asskicking. The Cops. Harsh Language. I would not expect to be banned.
I'd want to play my games in jail. Free and clear from the village people they hire to moderate.
Don't even joke about the alterior.
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"My actions tarnished this company's image in the online community, possibly for years to come, possibly at a cost of tens of millions of dollars in revenue. My bad!"
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