EA 'accidentally' bans player from Dragon Age II

[Chaos Raiden]

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.

Source: http://www.destructoid.com/ea-accidentally-bans-player-from-dragon-age-ii-196272.phtml

 

[LordOfDarkness]

Good ol' EA (Sarcasm intended)

 

[Dark Drakan]

Id imagine the fact he needed to be logged into the account to play the game was overlooked when he was suspended from the forums.

 

[Vergil's Waifu]

It's pathetic... what a bunch of idiots.
Call them the devil... i could think of a few worse words insulting their intelligence... or lack of.

 

[V]

Where's that old Nazi flag turning into an EA logo .gif when you need it?

 

[Vergil's Waifu]

^Lol... really?

 

[Asmodaius]

That's just hilarious! XD

 

[Dark Drakan]

Where's that old Nazi flag turning into an EA logo .gif when you need it?

Last i heard Activision were using it above their HQ.

 

[V]

^Lol... really?

Yup!

http://www.gifflix.com/files/dd753d136bbd.gif

 

[Vergil's Waifu]

*takes a look*
somehow that is weird and creepy.

 

[V]

I remember seeing it as people's avatars quite a lot back in 2005 or 2006. I thought EA had improved themselves since then, because they had a bit of bad rep among gamers, but maybe not...