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Game News EA bans player from playing Dragon Age II

VentilatorOfDoom

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Tags: BioWare; Dragon Age 2

<p><a href="http://gamingbolt.com/ea-bans-player-from-playing-dragon-age-2-for-calling-them-devil" target="_blank">What a dire fate</a>. Why did they do it? Because <a href="http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/6459941/1" target="_blank">someone wrote at the BioWarEA forums</a>: <em>Have you sold your souls to the EA devil? </em>Bad idea chap, now you're deprived of all the <strong>Dragon Age II</strong> goodness, you had it coming.</p>
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<p>In what appears to be a tottaly unfair practice, it appears EA are banning people from accessing their legally purchased copies of Dragon Age 2 if they were vocal about their displeasure regarding the game over at the official Bioware forums.<br /><br />One particular case in point is VWARE, a user who got banned for accusing Bioware of &ldquo;selling their souls to the EA devil&rdquo;. He agreed that it was fair to ban him from the forums for 72 hours, however was shocked when he realized that he can&rsquo;t access his Bioware social account and activate his recently purchased copy of Dragon Age 2.</p>
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<p>Nice business practices there, BioWarEA. Have a look at the answer from Stanley Woo on the Bioforums, it's rich.</p>
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<p>Please review the EA Community Terms of Service, particularly sections #9 and #11. There are two levels of enforcement here:<br /><br />1. BioWare community bans are forum-only and can be for as little as 24 hours. These bans should have no effect on your game, only your ability to use all the features of this website/community. these bans are handed out by BioWare Moderators as the result of our travels around the forum and/or issues reported by fellow community members.<br /><br />2. EA Community bans come down from a different department and are the result of someone hitting the REPORT POST button. <strong>These bans can affect access to your game and/or DLC.</strong><br /><br />Because the BioWare community now operates under the same umbrella as all EA Communities, community members here have all explicitly agreed to abide by and be governed by both sets of rules. Consider it an added incentive to follow the rules you say you&rsquo;re going to follow.<br /><br />If there are further questions or concerns, please send them to me via private message. Thank you.<br /><br />End of line.</p>
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<p>I wonder how *legal* such practices actually are. Anyway, you better watch out what you're saying when frequenting the Bioboards, lest you get your game deactivated, perhaps through the secret <a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=56839" target="_blank">SecuROM features they snuck in</a> without telling you.</p>
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Rogue

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How long will idiots pay for their shit? Yes, buy our crap game, but don't say or think anything bad about it! Also we will stuff your ass full of DRM and such.

Bioware really needs to die horribly.
 

Wirdschowerdn

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Rogue said:
Bioware really needs to die horribly.

Traditionally, all EA divisions will be shut down eventually. The rushjob that was DA2 is just the start. Soon EA demands sequels in 12 month intervalls, and then even less. Bio won't keep up and will therefor share the same fate as their sister-company that was Pandemic.
 

Rhalle

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Morgoth said:
Rogue said:
Bioware really needs to die horribly.

Traditionally, all EA divisions will be shut down eventually. The rushjob that was DA2 is just the start. Soon EA demands sequels in 12 month intervalls, and then even less. Bio won't keep up and will therefor share the same fate as their sister-company that was Pandemic.

SWTOR not living up to expectations, not allowing the EA people to swim in as much cash and Ukranian prostitutes as they'd like will be the nail in the coffin. You watch.
 

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EA couldn't let Activision take the crown of Most Evil Publisher, so they had to pull this stunt. Thing is, has this ever happened with other EA games? This could be Bioware's doing, seeing as how they're so high-strung with all the negative feedback coming their way, and they could just be trying to pass the buck.
 

Fowyr

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Ha ha ha, oh wow.
Hilarious news.
*Returns to Magic Candle*
 

m_s0

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commie said:
Eurogamer: I've seen scores as low as a 6/10 - what do you think when you read those?

Mike Laidlaw: Well it's hard to know exactly what's going on with scores that are really, really negative.

:retarded:
That's how things are. Anything below 8/10 is probably considered shit these days
 

Jezal_k23

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There are some things I think that are certainly fair criticisms: the re-use of the levels is something we knew was a bit of a risk, but we wanted to make sure there was more content rather than less, so re-using some of the spaces and coming to them again was certainly one we were careful about and tried to re-use as artfully as we could.

:lol:
 

Decado

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This is a pretty big fucking deal, and I'm pretty sure it's illegal. Or you could show it to be illegal in court, probably fairly easy. They're essentially punishing people for criticizing their product, and with no realistic way to get your money back, they're not leaving much room for a fair compensation.
 

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No matter from what angle you try and look at it, this is beyond stupid. Not to mention the arrogance that speaks from it.

And about that little article? The dev from DA:O blogged a year ago that he left because they were going the Mass Effect route with DA2. This guy denying that when it's so blatantly obvious now shows how much value one should attach to his sincerity.

DA2 is a flaming turd and an excellent example of what being aqcuired by EA will do to a studio. End.
 

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Eurogamer: One stronger criticism levelled at Dragon Age II was that it was designed by committee; it tried too hard to appeal too far and wide, and in doing so it lost a sense of self. What do you say to that?

Mike Laidlaw: Dragon Age II was designed by just the senior, core team. Honestly I don't feel it's a game that's been designed to appeal far and wide and so on. If it were, there were choices we could have made that would have taken it much, much further. We would have probably simplified down to a single character, maybe with companions; probably looked at doing some even deeper changes to inventory management, making sure that... You wouldn't want to confuse people with enchanting or anything complex like that. Really what we wanted to do with the game, just talking about first-principles, was to look at elements of Origins that were over complex and needlessly so and see if we could pull those out in a clean way and didn't take out what I always saw as core elements of the experience: strong, character-driven stories, and the idea that the combat should be a party working together, especially at higher difficulty levels.
:hmmm:
 

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