I was at the forums when this happened,let me tell you it was a civil war in there.And no they should just ban you from the forums but not from the game and better yet not from a single player game.

THE FREE MARKET WILL SPEAK!!!!

That's a pretty big deterrent. I don't go around bashing game forums but there certainly have been games that have irritated me to the point of writing about it on a forum before to see if others share my complaints/problems. I know I wouldn't be happy to find out that not only am I not allowed to express my irritation I can't access the content I already bought.

If I was in this kid's shoes, I would call my credit card company and have them cancel the DA2 charge. I know EA would permanently ban my account, but I would still have to do it just out of principal. Then I would never pay for one of their games again.

They don't own the game but I think it is well within their rights to not let you keep playing. Think of buying a multiplayer game as buying a ticket to a concert or sports game. You go, you have fun, and eventually they make you leave (which is akin to the servers inevitably being shut down). If you act like a complete *** and make everyone else in the stadium hate you and the event, they are allowed to kick you out. Similarly, if you show up to your online game and act like a disagreeable person, they should be allowed to kick you out.

One more reason to pirate the game... As long as developers/publishers do sh*t like this, they'll never get rid of piracy. It's like saying "I want this plant to die, so I think I'll water it". Ah well. Doesn't affect me; I'm a console gamer.

Is it still called incentive if it's negative reinforcement?

Terms of Service are terms of service. The biggest failure of the internet is how anonymity grants everyone the freedom to be a bigot or a jerk rather than communicate and cultivate ideas. Any forum that requires your real name instead of a pseudonym is light-years more civil almost by rule than ones that don't. Blizzard tried it with WoW's forums but lost to the masses, and here's another attempt that will probably get shot down, but I'm hoping eventually this becomes more strongly enforced.

Personally I think it's fair to a degree. If the person trolls and acts like ***. Then yes. Ban him from being able to do certain things. but at least let him still play the main campaign/game.

In something like Call of Duty, online shooters and other competitive games. By all mean, lock out people who cheat and spread bigotry. I have no sympathy for them.

If you are doing the same thing a in a forum and get banned, thus loosing your account, then you are one of many boneheaded people who in habit this space we call the internet. I can't really support you by saying that you shouldn't be punished for being an ***. However, it does seem a little bit harsh to lock them out completely.

Though if you're going to be saying stuff that might get you banned you should know what that entails. If it's mentioned in the terms of service, then it's fair game and the only thing anyone can say is that you need to clean up your act. Part of me is happy to see people held accountable for the absolutely atrocious comments that appear on the internet thanks to anonymity, but I can't help but feel that this isn't quite right.

I'm sure there is a way around this though. I know you can contact customer support and have your system switched to a different account. I had to do that in order to get access to my 360 again because I created an account for a Madden game way back when I was in Highschool that's linked to an email that no longer exists, so it can be changed. I know that from experience. Though I did get rank reset completely in BF:BC2 because of that and it was a little infuriating.

Again though, if you say something bad enough to get banned, I have no sympathy for you because you obviously lack a bit of human decency. Though the guy from the forum only got banned for 72 hours, not permanently, and should be playing his game by now. So, if you get permabanned, you've done something fairly wrong.

From playing online yes, they need this control.... from playing by yourself in a single player campaign not online... from that is just intruding on privacy.

Absolutely not. Not single player.

Although DA II isn't a big loss.

I think that you should be warned of you behavior, then locked out for one day seven days, and then a month if it keeps occuring and after that then they should gett a notice saying that if they break the rule again , THEN they will be banned

I think that you should be warned of you behavior, then locked out for one day seven days, and then a month if it keeps occuring and after that then they should gett a notice saying that if they break the rule again , THEN they will be banned

*shrug* Don't troll forums. I've seen first hand the kind of smug/untouchable attitude trolls get, and I mean translating into their real world actions that follow, I think it's about time karma bit them in the ass.

Sounds a bit extreme, but it will help discourage trolling. May not be able to stop trolling completely, but to a good extent.

sorry for double post

people might just stop buying ea games if this keeps up

I would sue the crap out of them in a second if I bought their product, and they tried to ban me from using it after making comments they did not like in a forum that was not included in the purchase I made. I bought the GAME, I did not buy the forum. My usage of the forum is separate from my purchase of the game, regardless of what EA's programmers say.

If I go and buy a brand new HP computer, and HP bans me from their forums because they do not like what I say, they can not also ban me from using features in the computer that I paid for. They can not, for instance, tell me I can no longer use Microsoft Word because of what I did in the forums.

This is a lawsuit waiting to happen. EA is stepping over the line here. Enough is enough. They can not have all of the power they want. They have a right to monitor the forums. Heck, they even have a right to monitor the games multiplayer. But unless I broke a rule in the GAME, I should not have the game that I PAYED for touched in any way.