http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/14/ea-forum-bans-are-still-affecting-games/


what about gog? does a forum ban (if there is one) result in you being banned from games?

Mr. Gog doesn't ban you from your games if you get banned. You can still download them and obviously they can't prevent you from using games that you've already downloaded.

Last time it came up they confirmed that they don't take your games if they ban you. That might not apply to credit fraud, but forums bans definitely.

Luckily I don't even visit EA forums, let alone post there.

Ask Ezri I guess.

As for the EA thing. I'm really... worried about the way RPS are covering this. Absolutely EA are way out of line for what they are doing but you don't get banned from forums for just saying the word e-peen. Something doesn't add up right with the offences. I mean we have all experienced trolls on lots of forums and it usually takes a lot for a Mod to actually wield the Banhammer in most places. Banned permanently for saying e-peen? It just doesn't sound right yet RPS are running with it.

I wonder if RPS have ever gone after Steam in with the same amount of venom over account problems? I would bet money they haven't.

but that is not the issue whether the bans were justified or not. nobody is really arguing about that.

the problem is that a mod CAN ban you for saying E-peen or calling him a twat and that will result in a ban from your 500 dollars worth account. that is the issue.


cause even if that guy posted dead child pornography then EA should not ban him from his games.

The way RPS is covering the issue is rather sickening in my opinion. They are not offering up any form of evidence to prove the case of these users in the form of a screenshot, or offering links to the offending articles. Instead, they are summarizing them in general, and posting a lot of images related to EA with huge red BANNED written on them. The writer claims he has no feelings for or against EA, but that article definitely doesn't carry that same message.

I think what EA is doing is crappy of course, and this is one of the huge reasons I am against gaming as a service and/or being attached to a service. However, that article has nothing to back it up showing just how the users were acting in these cases.

Usually there is a heavy dose of self-serving in a banned member's claims. Including 99% of the flaming he was warned repeatedly but not banned for earlier. "News" sites looking for something sensational to report will accept the banned member's false account of his misconduct at face value.

There is no truth to be had in this story.

And yeah, if someone actually posted something akin to kiddie porn, or links to it, he should be immediately excluded from all facilities of the company hosting the forum, and a report made to law enforcement.

please read my post on top of yours. that is not an issue. it does not matter what they were doing on the forums.
games and forum behaviour should be separated.

I'm not arguing that at all, like I said I was rather taken aback by the tone of the article. As Kurina just said there is no actual evidence, they seem to be taking the complaints at face value and the fact EA have not responded yet as an admission of guilt. For all you know the real reason they had their accounts suspended was they bought a dodgy Russian BF3 key and used a VPN to activate it on Origin. My original point was would RPS be even reporting this if it happened with Steam? I think not. There seems to be an agenda here.

they reported unjustufied steam VAC bans some time ago

and it did happen before you know. it was proven and EA admitted that. with origin getting much more popular right now (BF3) and not just one or two guys who report the ban but quite few people. So really it is not looking good for EA. And i my attitude to big companies is guilty unless proven otherwise.

although more research would not hurt the article.

Does this mean that if someone manages to crack a EA forum moderator/administrator's account (isn't that what happened with Steam or something?), he can proceed to ban everyone from their games, and possibly permanently? :D

Well technically with Credit fraud you never actually purchased the games, so you never should have had them in the first place. Of course they can't stop you from playing them if you've already downloaded them, but I'm sure they'll remove them from the account at the very least.

At the time that Ezri was banned, the answer was yes. But I think GOG finally made the minor adjustment so that forum bans no longer mean loss of everything.

As for the whole EA thing, I agree with Kurina. This is just yet another RPS shit stirring campaign.

wth , i should be careful with ea forums now....probably thrashed them a few times....

Has anyone ever been banned from the GOG forums (apart from chinese spambots, of course)? I hear the name Ezri coming up. Never heard of him / hear before.

What do you actually have to do, before you get banned?