raggety writes "Remember the famous apple scene from Good Will Hunting? Will stands outside the restaurant and asks the guy, "Do you like apples?" (Can''''t remember? Check it out for yourself) Like Will, do you get off on taunting others? Telling them to STFU or OMGWTFBBQ or asking if they like apples? Well, EA has fired the first shot in a controversial move to send those with rage issues to anger management class.
If you answered yes to any of the questions above, you might want to reconsider that line of work because EA has decided that if you get banned from their forums, they will ban you from ALL of the games that you''''ve purchased from them. We''''re not talking about just 1 game here like C&C or the ill fated Crysis. We''''re talking every game that you ever purchased from EA. They are developing a new website with forums that ties your forum name to your account name. So if you get banned from the forums, you might as well bend over and kiss your virtual ass goodbye.
This was posted by one of the EA forum admins:
Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you’d actually be banned from your other EA games as well since its all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It’s all one in the same, so I strongly [recommend] people play nice and act mature.
There are a couple ways around this though. First (and most obvious), don''''t use the EA forums. If you really like posting pics of your grandma taking a gangsta beat down, find a clan like krustyoldfarts and use their forums to virtually abuse others into crying like a little girl (My uncle creepy does it all the time pretending to be a 14yr old girl). Second, purchase another copy of the game. Granted, not everyone has the spare dolares to do this but it is one way to keep playing if you find yourself on the receiving end of the ban-hammer. I''''m sure that this move will fuel the fire that has been rage against the EA machine.
So EA is saying, they have your number or in this case CD key and they''''re not afraid to ban it. How ya like them apples?
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