Just as I thought EA couldn’t get any more worse then what we’ve seen with Spore, I read this Norwegian article about EA and it’s alleged new policy. For the non-Norwegian readers, this article basically talks about a post in the EA forum by a EA-employee

Well, its actually going to be a bit nastier for those who get banned.

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 reccommend people play nice and act mature.

Now this is really crazy! Apparently, if EA don’t like what you do on their forum or anywhere else for that matter, you’ll be locked out of your own games! If this is really true, then I’ve never ever seen such a distasteful treatment of customers in my entire life. True, the victims here are most likely not mom’s angel, but they’ve still got rights, and this isn’t mentioned in the TOS. Not that I’m a lawyer or anything, but I think it’s illegal to steal, and if EA regards piracy as stealing, then this is definitely stealing too! So congrats EA, you just became a thief!

Update:  Thankfully, it turns out that this is just a misunderstanding. EA will NOT ban you from you game.

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