EA: We can remove your purchased game in Origin

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If you scour through the internet, you might find a handful of articles describing how evil EA is as a gaming corporation. Well, maybe this is the latest reason you can take account for.

Looking at the fifth line of EA’s Terms of Service, it has been carefully stated that:

“We reserve the right to change and update Content and Entitlements without notice to you. If you have not used your Entitlements or Account for twenty four (24) months or more and your Account has associated Entitlements, your Entitlements will expire and your Account may be cancelled for non-use. Once you have redeemed your Entitlements, that content is not returnable, exchangeable, or refundable for other Entitlements or for cash, or other goods or services.”
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Source: Myona
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Can see EA packing in retail PC games and going digital copies only and making some origin exclusive.
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I don't see EA ever packing in physical distribution. It's something they do extremely well, hence why you get people like Valve using them to ship their titles.

I completely see them tying physical copies to Origin though.
 
think maybe EA are getting ahead of themselves somewhat

maybe someone needs to remind them, that sure, they can throw their toys out of the pram, but the gaming community as a worldwide whole, can put them out of business forever lol
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
That's pretty harsh but Steam have similar statements in their Ts&Cs (I don't think they have something similar to the 24 month thing though).
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Aye, pretty much all games for a couple of decades have had a stint in their T&Cs about how the physical disc remains the property of the distributor and they can reclaim it under certain conditions.

For the record, I started my Steam account on HL2 release day, completed it over the course of a week and didn't log into Steam again for another 4 or 5 years. No problems with it after I reset my password, I'd since lost my physical HL2 disc and re-downloaded without an issue. I don't really see why EA would cancel your account for non-activity, there's no benefit/loss in it for them.
 
Don't know why they don't just bill by the hour and be done with it.

Battlefield (multiplayer): $3/ hour.
Dead Space (single player): $10/ hour.

No complicated small print, and EA's execs can bathe in piles of money to their heart's content.
 
I didn't know this about Steam but I'm not so worried, I don't see myself ever going that amount of time without accessing my steam account. Origin though? Don't you only use it to download your games? Even if not I can see myself not logging in to play Mass Effect 3 for a couple of years.
 
FoxEye said:
Don't know why they don't just bill by the hour and be done with it.

Battlefield (multiplayer): $3/ hour.
Dead Space (single player): $10/ hour.

No complicated small print, and EA's execs can bathe in piles of money to their heart's content.
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...No.
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
That's pretty harsh but Steam have similar statements in their Ts&Cs (I don't think they have something similar to the 24 month thing though).
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Steam T&Cs are much worse than this. EA will wait for your account to be idle for 24 months before they will consider to disable it. Steam T&Cs state that...

2. In the case of a one-time purchase of a product license (e.g., purchase of a single game) from Valve, Valve may choose to terminate or cancel your Subscription in its entirety or may terminate or cancel only a portion of the Subscription (e.g., access to the software via Steam) and Valve may, but is not obligated to, provide access (for a limited period of time) to the download of a stand-alone version of the software and content associated with such one-time purchase.

Basically, Valve are allowed to disable your account whenever they feel like it, no matter if it's idle or not ;)
 
ZombieFan said:
Steam T&Cs are much worse than this. EA will wait for your account to be idle for 24 months before they will consider to disable it. Steam T&Cs state that...

2. In the case of a one-time purchase of a product license (e.g., purchase of a single game) from Valve, Valve may choose to terminate or cancel your Subscription in its entirety or may terminate or cancel only a portion of the Subscription (e.g., access to the software via Steam) and Valve may, but is not obligated to, provide access (for a limited period of time) to the download of a stand-alone version of the software and content associated with such one-time purchase.

Basically, Valve are allowed to disable your account whenever they feel like it, no matter if it's idle or not ;)
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Yeah... and such an action will never stand up in court.
 
I'm curious as to the legality of this - just because they state it in their terms and conditions doesn't make it right.
 
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