Playing the Sim City Beta? Forgot to tell EA about a bug? EA will ban you company-wide - Polidicks

[QUOTE=PieClock;39307324]Not a single person will be banned for this. People are overreacting once again.[/QUOTE] This is the same company that bans you from playing games when your forum account gets banned. I think you're actually understating a real threat.

What happens if you get banned for reporting them?

[QUOTE=FlakAttack;39309984]This is the same company that bans you from playing games when your forum account gets banned. I think you're actually understating a real threat.[/QUOTE] Or maybe you're paranoid as shit and don't realize that stuff like this fairly common, like that example from Valve earlier. The wording is weird, but it's basically saying "if you hide/exploit bugs, you're a no good cock mongrel" and that sounds pretty fair to me, it's a game where you're constantly connected to multiplayer, if it were singleplayer, i would say this is kinda stupid.

[QUOTE=tomj;39309332]But how can they ban someone for not reporting a bug? They don't know that some of the bugs exist in the first place so how can they tell if someone abuses it?[/QUOTE] Person A gets beta key, person A has hours in the beta, when retail title comes out, Person A suddenly has weird activity show up in their account, reasonable suspicion they had a bug and didn't report it and are using it now, banned for life

[QUOTE=PzOwNeD;39310471]Person A gets beta key, person A has hours in the beta, when retail title comes out, Person A suddenly has weird activity show up in their account, reasonable suspicion they had a bug and didn't report it and are using it now, banned for life[/QUOTE] Huh, I don't get it?

EA won't ban anyone for this because it's impossible but it'd probably be ideal to give the developer a hand and find exploits

[QUOTE=Thom12255;39307069]This is getting blown out of proportion, how is EA going to enforce this, how will they know?[/QUOTE] Making a guess here, but since some games have a "bug submit" pop-up whenever the game detects that it crashes (like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky) and EA are pushing to have this packed with always-online DRM, it'll be using that technology to tell whether you've submitted the bug report that it detects or not. Which is incredibly invasive.

What if there's a bug that prevents the EULA from being shown, so you never technically "agree" to that clause what would they do then

[QUOTE=jechtman;39310917]Making a guess here, but since some games have a "bug submit" pop-up whenever the game detects that it crashes (like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky) and EA are pushing to have this packed with always-online DRM, it'll be using that technology to tell whether you've submitted the bug report that it detects or not. Which is incredibly invasive.[/QUOTE] They aren't talking about game crashing bugs, they are talking about exploitable bugs.

[QUOTE=Jsm;39311511]They aren't talking about game crashing bugs, they are talking about exploitable bugs.[/QUOTE] Fair point, then consider my post a possibility that's realy not too farfetched, knowing EA these past several years.

I filed may bug reports in the SWTOR beta and they were all ignored, why does EA care now?

[QUOTE=lavacano;39310976]What if there's a bug that prevents the EULA from being shown, so you never technically "agree" to that clause what would they do then[/QUOTE] you would get banned

[QUOTE=Raidyr;39307918]Why do people constantly overreact to EULA's that practically already allow companies to ban you for whatever reason anyway? The Steam Subscriber Agreement literally says The language does come across as stupid; how are they going to know that you know about a bug? But it's far from tyrannical. This is pretty standard fare for game service user agreements.[/QUOTE] i think there is a clear difference here. valve leaves their eula open so they can ban people for whatever reason, but doesn't actually make it a policy to do so(as far as i'm aware). ea's eula is stating a policy to ban people who don't properly report bugs. not defending valve, but there is a difference between having discretion to do something, and actually making that action a policy.

Banned from Origin what a fucking tragic day that will be

What if the bug report form is buggy

[QUOTE=jechtman;39310917]Making a guess here, but since some games have a "bug submit" pop-up whenever the game detects that it crashes (like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky) and EA are pushing to have this packed with always-online DRM, it'll be using that technology to tell whether you've submitted the bug report that it detects or not. Which is incredibly invasive.[/QUOTE] Maybe because the idea of a beta is to find bugs and not just use it as a free demo.

Fun fact: You can sue EA for that in the Netherlands. If you sign an EULA AFTER buying something then it's invalid (YAY). So the Dutch can just buy the game when it's released and refuse to report any bugs :3 (Because they ALWAYS show the EULA when you install the game)

A ban from origin, oh no, where will get my games from now?!?

serves those scums right

death to ea allahu ackbar