Forum Ban Locks Player Out Of Dragon Age 2

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I think the only way the public can fight these corporate tyrants and set precedents is to unite behind one or more people to help fund their lawsuit to get the best representation possible as it it is in all our best interests in the end. Then we should take it further and have outlawed these contracts whereby they write in conditions that they can take our money and then deny access to what we pay for for petty reasons.
 
That's nothing compared to the horrors happening on TechPowerUp!forums. There if you don't suck up the mods, which they troll you on daily basis, you can get your account baned without any reason, hahaha.
 
[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]i was going to BUY this game in 3 months, just because i dont have the money now.but i WILL pirate it tonight, for the sole reason of this article.[/citation]

I am in the exact same situation. I was waiting a few months to finish building by new rig then I was going to BUY this game. Now, I will be pirating today and saving my $$ for the Witcher 2. Thanks EA for saving me $60.
 
I know everyone is sick of government interference, but can somebody somewhere please draft a law stating that if you pay for something, you get to use it - regardless if the seller doesn't like you or how you use the product? This is getting more ridiculous by the second.
 
this is outrageous... is this the control they are given with digital purchases?

this kinda shit makes me want to start pirating again. this way, i could say whatever i want, no hidden securom bullshit, and i'll save $60. sounds like a big ass win to me
 
These are the type so of things that make pirating look better than actually paying for a game. Companies are stealing their own money at this point. Especially EA.
 
First amendment does not apply to private institutions. If they decide to silence someone for criticizing them, that is acceptable to me. It's still shady and disgusting, but legally speaking, in their right.

HOWEVER, denying access to a game or paid content for speaking out negatively against the publisher is illegal where I live. It should never be tolerated or allowed in any shape or form.

It's outrageous, really.
 
Well they just lost another sale. I was planning to buy the game next week after i finish another im playing, but not anymore. When will game companies learn to NOT treat their paying customers like crap.
 


When people stop paying to be treated like crap.

Seriously, every time a company does something like this, I say stop buying their products. The only way they are going to stop doing this is if customers show them that they are willing to stop lining the company's wallet when they try to pull this...

Hats off to you for choosing to spend your money elsewhere and not support this kind of behavior.
 
The sad thing here is that EA is untouchable. They know their sports franchises will get them on the "top 10 best selling games" list every year.

They have no fire under them to change anything. The small vocal minority means nothing when Madden alone is a guaranteed 15 million copies every year.

Litigation needs to happen in order to (hopefully) force a change upon these sketchy rules publishers make. You say I don't own a game I purchased? I doubt the courts, if pushed, would see eye to eye with that rationale no matter how many lawyers argue the opposite.
 
Fanboy, they're smarter than that. Internet allows them to host their services anywhere so they can always pick a country where the Law suits their interests best. It doesn't mean nothing can be done against them - actually blocking their service through network range ban is very effective and there are plenty of good excuses to do that.

See: http://www.fatfoogoo.com/2009/01/turkey-bans-k2-network%E2%80%99s-knight-online-%E2%80%93-levies-tax/
 
That sucks! I like Bioware games, and thought they already learned that abusive DRM pisses off their customers, with the Neverwinter Nights fiasco years ago. Guess not, and I won't be buying DA2 because of it.
 
By all accounts DA2 sounds like a giant downgrade from DA:O. I haven't read a good thing about it from PC cRPG fans. Seems to me that while DA:O was a PC game ported to consoles, DA2 is a console game ported to the PC (i.e. like just about every PC game released in the last 5 years). Bioware aren't getting any more of my money.
 
You know I bought the first one, but banning someone from the game they purchased, A SINGLEPLAYER GAME!?? EA wanna cracker? Sry it's for my parrot.
 
[citation][nom]_Pez_[/nom]This remember me, that I got banned by toms hardware forums .. because I used a bad word to exprees my emotion about the hd 6990 on its review. I was kinda shocked but I lernt -.-"[/citation]
And yet not everyone does, there are many posters out there that will purposefully flame and violate forum policies because they know they can move else where. Even on Blizzards WoW forums the ban hammer is almost non-existent and has many posters continuing to harass other posters because there is no real threat to them to not do so, sometimes an in game suspension will also apply to the forums yet not the other way around. Tagging account penalties account wide is going to have to be the next step and guess what SC2 is linked to your battle.net account. Yet lucky for trolls even Blizzard is to scared to ban map hackers in SC2.



 
i was considering purchasing this game.. now i will not. ea does it again.. suck a dick, ea.
 
i' think i'm with every oen else, after readdign this i'm some how less enthused about getting this game. well there is stil duke nuke em forever comign out in may (maybe), guess i'l hang on to my money for that one. give this a pass til it is cheaper, if i get it at all.
 
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