EA May Terminate Your Origins Account After Two Years

[Antari]

So EA doesn't want me as a customer ... tell me something I didn't already know. I don't know how anyone can buy their games anymore. If I wanted to get treated like a criminal I'd go rob a bank or something, not buy a game.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

You know what, never mind.

Everyone with Origins - you're on your own. I tried to help, but apparently everyone would rather scream about how evil Origins is (really, you're surprised?) than listen to purely technical advice. Fine then. Enjoy your arguments. I'm out.

Don't bother replying to this, cause I'm going to ignore any quotes from this thread from here on out.

 

[trlkly]

You know what, never mind.

Everyone with Origins - you're on your own. I tried to help, but apparently everyone would rather scream about how evil Origins is (really, you're surprised?) than listen to purely technical advice. Fine then. Enjoy your arguments. I'm out.

Don't bother replying to this, cause I'm going to ignore any quotes from this thread from here on out.

That's because giving the advice means you are inherently justifying it. You are saying that your workaround is an okay compromise.

We already have a way of getting around the problem. The problem is that it's a way that the company would prefer us not to use. Yours would be giving in to them, and encouraging the practice.

 

[Fappy]

Guess they really need the hard-drive space. User data is so unwieldy. >.>

 

[crazyrabbits]

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No, it's not a new phenomenon, and no, it's not brand new just because you think it is. It's a policy that has always existed in gaming. Always. Read the ToS on your 2002 or so games and I guarantee you'll find very similar legal clauses in there.

There are simply two key differences between then and now:
1) they're taking it much more seriously (since pirating has only grown more and more with the rise of digital ownership)
2) they actually have the means by which to enforce those clauses (because short of sending suits to your home to break your CDs, there weren't exactly options back then)

It's just like with music: the industry didn't really stamp down on people's cassette mix tapes even though the spread of music was pretty common, but as pirating in a digital age has become commonplace and as new methods have arisen to enforce the "no-theft" policies, the industry has put its foot down more and more in a rather ugly attempt to up their profits even more.

True, your old games will continue to work, but that doesn't change the fact that the gaming industry has always believed it was selling you a "license" and not a game. As users such as Crono1973 have tried to point out, it's the industry basically saying "we'll sell you a game, but then turn around and claim it's not really yours". And until the law steps in and says otherwise, it's only going to continue to get worse now that they actually can do that to you.

This, so much.

You're not answering the question. what law or act/bill prevents them from doing this?, NAME IT.

The first-sale doctrine. The lawful owner of a copy of a piece of media has the right to resell it without interference from the copyright holder.

Publishers are trying to make it so that the first-sale doctrine doesn't apply to anything bought through digital distribution. I can still go and play my copy of Deus Ex that I bought a decade ago, even if I haven't played it in 5 years, or I can sell it to a friend. I have those rights under ownership law. I'm surprised there are so many people in this topic who don't seem to understand this simple law. If I buy a physical copy of a disc, I can pretty much do whatever I want with it short of distributing copies of it for monetary gain.

This is why publishers want to move to all-digital distribution - they get complete control of the content, and skirt consumer laws by making it so that you're buying a "licence" instead of a physical product that you have ownership of. DLC, Origin...it's all the same thing. A time lock to prevent you from owning the content you bought in perpetuity.

I don't even know why people are trying to defend Origin anyway - it's glorified malware that sits on your system even if you uninstall it. It has an incredible amount of access to your system files, and until very recently, you could get banned from single-player games for getting banned on a message board.

 

[FalloutJack]

Oh, I see. So, they're ensuring that they won't have business later. Good for them.

 

[Ryotknife]

im not going to lie, this is a pretty skillful thread necro. Most of the posts were from early august of 2011, it is pretty easy to miss the year and concentrate on the month and date.

props to trlkly, it had me fooled.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

That's because giving the advice means you are inherently justifying it. You are saying that your workaround is an okay compromise.

We already have a way of getting around the problem. The problem is that it's a way that the company would prefer us not to use. Yours would be giving in to them, and encouraging the practice.

What the hell?!

**looks at thread, notes date of last comment**

... why are you resurrecting a thread from LAST YEAR?!

**reports and ignores**

 

[Fappy]

That's because giving the advice means you are inherently justifying it. You are saying that your workaround is an okay compromise.

We already have a way of getting around the problem. The problem is that it's a way that the company would prefer us not to use. Yours would be giving in to them, and encouraging the practice.

What the hell?!

**looks at thread, notes date of last comment**

... why are you resurrecting a thread from LAST YEAR?!

**reports and ignores**

Necromancy becomes more and more widespread as time goes on it seems D:

 

[The Forces of Chaos]

Question. I'm currently playing Tor, but not using though the Origin service, since I bought a physical copy. It is linked on my origin account though. I have uninstalled Origin after ME3 (after i saw the extended cut, I really thought what is the point as I?m only playing the multiplayer and Tor).

Could I still keep my account if I?m still playing Tor without using the origin distribution service or just use the origin website to log in every once in a wile?