Another EA Origin Ban

voorhees1979 said:
Fact is m8, it wouldn't happen you can make up all these little stories as much as you like. Fact is the above did happen and he got what he deserved. My wife speeding? chance would be a fine thing.............
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but still, the point is, you cannot be accountable for what someone else does with your stuff.
his son could not have his own ea account as he is too young for a bank card. you cannot watch your kids 24/7 these things happen. his son got banned, which is just, his dad though, did nothing wrong other than let his son play games online and trust him.
maybe (and they might i stay away from ea if i can) if they had a wallet scheme, so his son could have had his own account and his dad could transfer money into his virtual EA wallet, then his dad wouldnt have to be the account holder and only his son, who was the one in the wrong would be the one who was justly punished.
 
Martini1991 said:
/facepalm.
Not on about you specifically.

I was on about the opinion that is as buyers on these services, we don't own our games.
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Oh. :o Misread your post.

That's common knowledge, it's how software licensing has generally always worked. You don't own the product, you're not free to reverse engineer it, take it apart and mess with it and whatever just because you own a physical copy of the disk.

If they don't want cheats on their service disrupting play for other legitimate players, hard luck. Don't cheat or let cheaters on your account. Losing your SP games rather than just MP access might be harsh, but meh. I agree with whoever said they shouldn't have unbanned it in the first place.
 
voorhees1979 said:
I know what you are saying, but the fact is the hack happened WHILE it was linked to YOUR account. Does not matter your sons account was moved. Also swearing online is pretty childish, you 100% deserve a total ban.

So you should have stayed banned, I guess the fact you are banned again after being let of is karma. Swearing aside ban should stand for the hacking offense.
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You have a strange way of thinking.
He was basically banned by association and you think this is okay.

100% deserve a ban? Hah!

Come on, you must have some understanding of his situation?
 
This is why you don't let other people on your account, whoever they are.

It's crappy that it was sorted though and then it's become "un-sorted", it sounds like an automated system.

In fairness, if anyone that gets caught for cheating just rings up and says "it wasn't me, it was my [insert friend/family member here]" then a lot more cheaters would get away with what they do. You're lucky you got unbanned in the first place. Hopefully it all gets sorted soon though and you get your account back. :)
 
ThomBassmonkey said:
This is why you don't let other people on your account, whoever they are.
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how else do you propose to create an xbox live account for a child ?

YOU HAVE TO link it to a parents account, with payment from a C/C to proove that you are the bill payer and the adult. Only then can you create a childs account.
 
MrLOL said:
how else do you propose to create an xbox live account for a child ?

YOU HAVE TO link it to a parents account, with payment from a C/C to proove that you are the bill payer and the adult. Only then can you create a childs account.
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Do what other parents do, explain fully what will happen and what would happen to them ;) Explaining to kids cheating is wrong is a very easy thing to do.

What would happen to my kids if they got my account/games banned would be simple. They would have no axxs to games for many years to come.

The BF3 thing is very stupid, but as said many times the account should still be banned anyway, makes no difference he got his sons one moved, the hack was done while it was linked to his.
 
voorhees1979 said:
Do what other parents do, explain fully what will happen and what would happen to them ;) Explaining to kids cheating is wrong is a very easy thing to do.

What would happen to my kids if they got my account/games banned would be simple. They would have no axxs to games for many years to come.
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but neither would you ;)
 
Neil, an account ban is an account ban. If they're linked, they're acting as one account.

MrLOL said:
how else do you propose to create an xbox live account for a child ?

YOU HAVE TO link it to a parents account, with payment from a C/C to proove that you are the bill payer and the adult. Only then can you create a childs account.
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I didn't know that, it only says an adult must set up the account on your behalf if you're under 18. It doesn't say that the account must be in their name/using their details etc. :) I was over 18 when I set up my xbox account so I never had to think about what you can/can't do at a given age.
 
mad_weegie said:
It was sorted thats the whole thing :(, then this admin has flagged my account on friday and got it banned.
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to be honest, you would have been better off not mentioning the first ban, seems a lot of people cant see past that. and the fact that as much as you tell someone something is wrong, they are their own person, and people learn from making their own mistakes. god if everything was as cut and dry as some of these people think, our prison system would be all over the place, as every parent of everyone that commited a crime is responsible, so all 3 of them should go to prison.
1st ban was justly given, the problem was resolved and the appropriate punishment was handed to child
2nd ban was harsh, a suspension or removal from server was problably more appropriate, or atleast a temp MP suspension until the issue was investigate, then appropriate punishment dished out if required.
 
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paradisiac said:
to be honest, you would have been better off not mentioning the first ban, seems a lot of people cant see past that. and the fact that as much as you tell someone something is wrong, they are their own person, and people learn from making their own mistakes. god if everything was as cut and dry as some of these people think, our prison system would be all over the place, as every parent of everyone that commited a crime is responsible, so all 3 of them should go to prison.
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It isn't already?

But I'm actually astounded at some of the opinions hear, I thought PC Games was a different mentality.
 
I don't get why people are saying he deserved to be banned for letting his son hack on an xbox account that was ascociated with his e-mail.

If I were to put a keyloger on your pc and deliberately get your Origin account banned. I geuss by that same logic the owner of the account would deserve to be banned because he let a hacker onto his pc.

You don't punish someone for someone elses wrong doing.
 
ThomBassmonkey said:
This is why you don't let other people on your account, whoever they are.
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???

Other than realising that his son would probably have to use a pre-paid card in order to get on xbox live, the OP would have to pay the bill for his child. Please reread, he WASN'T using his account, he was using an account linked to his payment card. BIG difference.

What has happened is most like 1) Offence on Fifa game... gets sorted out... 2) EA get a complaint about a user for whatever reason, do not read the history correctly and ban him for another transgression, OR ban him for totally misreading it and thinking the complaint was about fifa and no BF3 (OP you need to find out the reason for the ban on Origin - i.e. the original complaint from the server admin)

OP did not deserve to be banned for swearing. Ban from server YES, if the admin deemed it appropriate, ban from BF3 and Origin? NO, absolutely not.
 
Whilst what happened sucks, it goes to show why it is never worth bothering swearing in multiplayer games. I always just ignore or laugh at abusive comments sent my way.
 
orderoftheflame said:
So what? These are all multiplatform services now. Why shouldn't a Developer be able to introduce a service wide ban to protect legitimate players from cheats regardless of platform?
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but for one member of a household to cheat at 1 game, meaning everyone getting punished on ALL games, even in SP mode, does seem harsh.
 
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