If you ever needed more evidence of how ludicrously some publishers treat PC players, you can stop your search right here. A gamer was recently punished for using “bad language” on BioWare’s forums with a ban from Dragon Age II. Yep, if you screw up on a message board, EA can stop you from playing legally purchased, offline games.
The ban was for referring to EA as a “devil”, which netted the user a 72-hour suspension. During that period, he was unable to play Dragon Age II because he needed his suspended account in order to activate it. BioWare’s only response was to copy and paste the terms and services of its forums, basically in order to say “not our problem.”
Electronic Arts, however, has since revoked the ban — likely due to a lot of outraged gamer backlash — and has claimed the suspension from the game was a “mistake.” Apparently he was only supposed to be suspended from the forum, but got locked out of everything that requires an EA account.
Yet further proof that EA doesn’t know what the f*ck it’s doing with its stupid EA account nonsense. Still, nice to know that such clueless chimps can essentially hold your games to ransom.
