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Originally Posted by Seil
...Wait, wait, wait. Assume that I'm an idiot.
What's going on? What're they doin'?
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When someone is banned on EA's forums they are also banned from playing any games on their Origin account. Now under normal circumstances this would convince people not to be complete douchebags on a game's official forum (and in case you haven't noticed most games' official forums are complete shit holes). However these are not normal circumstances and a lot of people are getting banned for swearing and stuff thanks to EA's content filter or something (I'm a little unsure on the details myself here).
And then to make things worse the ban stops you from accessing anything on your Origin account, including single player content in a lot of cases.
Now I understand EA's mentality behind this, that if you're going to be a complete dick and warrant a ban on their forums then odds are you're a complete dick while playing their games so they won't even give you a second chance there. At least I hope that's their mentality.
And then you have everyone else flipping out because they believe a game's forum and its multiplayer are mutually exclusive and that if they are banned on one they shouldn't be banned on the other. But they really aren't. If you're a douchebag on one of them you're probably a douchebag on the other. Douchebaggery doesn't go away simply because you change the medium.
But I digress. The real issue here is that the bans are being handed out for relatively minor offences, and that single player content is being blocked. If anyone is complaining that they can't access their game's multiplayer because they were a huge bastard on a forum, please point them my way so I can slap them. In the face.