http://tos.ea.com/le...TERMS/US/en/PC/Everyone who continues to try and defend those who have abused exploits, I suggest you take a while and read over the Terms of Service which you have all agreed to upon the creation of your account and upon first connecting to the EA servers through ME3. In case you're too lazy to read the entire thing, I went ahead and copied the relevant parts for you. I was even nice enough to underline the important things regarding this topic, just in case you might conveniently not see them.
9. Termination of EA Services
EA
may terminate access to any online or mobile products and/or EA
Services (and/or any portion thereof) at any time by giving you notice
of such termination within the time period specified when you joined the
particular EA Service, or if no time period for notice of termination
was specified, then within thirty (30) days of the date such notice is
either (at EA’s discretion) provided to you via email or is posted on
the applicable product or EA Service or on
http://www.ea.com/2/service-updates.
EA may also terminate
access to EA Services for violation of this Terms of Service, if EA (in
its sole discretion) deems that your use of EA Services renders EA
Services less safe for others and/or minors or for illegal or improper
use of EA Services, Content, Entitlement, products, or EA's Intellectual
Property as determined by EA in its sole discretion. You may lose your
user name and persona as a result of termination. If you have more
than one (1) Account, EA may terminate all of your Accounts and all
related Entitlements. In response to a violation of these Terms of
Service or any other agreement applicable to EA Services accessed by
you, EA may issue you a warning, suspend your Account, selectively
remove, revoke or garnish Entitlements at an Account and/or device
level, immediately terminate any and all Accounts that you have
established and/or temporarily or permanently ban your device and/or
machine from accessing all EA Services or certain EA Services. You
acknowledge that in such an instance EA is not required to provide you
notice before taking action to suspend or terminate your Account,
temporarily or permanently banning your device from some or all EA
Services or selectively removing, revoking or garnishing Entitlements
associated with your Account. If EA terminates your Account, you may
not participate in an EA Service again without EA's express permission.
EA reserves the right to refuse to keep Accounts for, and provide EA
Services to, any individual. You may not allow individuals whose
Accounts have been terminated by EA to use your Account.
If your
Account, or a particular subscription for an EA Service associated with
your Account, is terminated, suspended and/or if any Entitlements are
selectively removed, revoked or garnished from your Account and/or if
your device is temporarily or permanently banned from accessing some or
all EA Services, no refund will be granted, no Entitlements will be
credited to you or converted to cash or other forms of reimbursement,
and you will have no further access to your Account or Entitlements
associated with your Account or the particular EA Service. If you
believe that any action has been taken against your Account or device in
error, please contact Customer Support at help.ea.com, support.popcap.com (for PopCap products) or swtor.com/support (for Star Wars™: The Old Republic).
11. Rules of Conduct
You may violate the Terms of Service if, as determined by EA in its sole discretion, you:
- Post, transmit, promote, or distribute Content that is illegal.
-
Harass, threaten, embarrass, spam or do anything else to another player
that is unwanted, such as repeatedly sending unwanted messages or
making personal attacks or statements about race, sexual orientation,
religion, heritage, etc.
- Organize, effectuate or participate in
any activity, group, guild that is harmful, abusive, hateful, racially,
ethnically, religiously or otherwise offensive, obscene, threatening,
bullying, vulgar, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringing, invasive of
personal privacy or publicity rights, encourages conduct that would
violate a law or in a reasonable person's view, objectionable and/or
inappropriate. Hate speech is not tolerated.
- Use abusive, offensive, or defamatory screen names and/or personas.
-
Engage in disruptive behavior in chat areas, game areas, forums, or any
other area or aspect of EA Services. Disruptive behavior includes but
is not limited to conduct which interferes with the normal flow of
gameplay or dialogue within an EA Service. Disruptive behavior shall
also include, but not be limited to, commercial postings, solicitations
and advertisements.
- Disrupt the flow of chat in chat rooms with
vulgar language, abusiveness, hitting the return key repeatedly or
inputting large images so the screen goes by too fast to read, use of
excessive shouting [all caps] in an attempt to disturb other users,
"spamming" or flooding [posting repetitive text].
- Impersonate
another person (including celebrities), indicate falsely that you are an
EA employee or a representative of EA, or attempt to mislead users by
indicating that you represent EA or any of EA's partners or affiliates.
- Attempt to get a password, account information, or other private information from anyone else on EA Services.
- Upload any software or Content that you do not own or have permission to freely distribute.
- Violate any additional Rules of Conduct applicable to a specific EA Service that you are using.
-
Promote, encourage or take part in any activity involving hacking,
cracking, phishing, taking advantage of exploits or cheats and/or
distribution of counterfeit software and/or virtual currency/items.
-
Upload files that contain a virus, worm, spyware, time bombs, corrupted
data or other computer programs that may damage, interfere with or
disrupt EA Services.
- Post messages for any purpose other than
personal communication, including advertising or promotional messaging,
chain letters, pyramid schemes, or other commercial activities.
- Improperly use in-game support or complaint buttons or make false reports to EA staff.
-
Use or distribute unauthorized "auto" software programs, "macro"
software programs or other "cheat utility" software program or
applications.
- Use any game hacking/altering/cheating software or tools.
-
Modify or attempt to modify any file or any other part of the EA
Service that EA does not specifically authorize you to modify.
- Post or communicate any person's real-world personal information using an EA Service.
- Attempt to interfere with, hack into or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers for an EA Service.
- Use and communicate exploits and/or cheats.
-
Attempt to use EA Software on or through any service that is not
controlled or authorized by Electronic Arts. Any such use is at your
own risk and may subject you to additional or different terms. EA takes
no responsibility for your use of EA Software on or through any service
that is not controlled by Electronic Arts.
- Interfere with the
ability of others to enjoy playing an EA Service or take actions that
interfere with or materially increase the cost to provide an EA Service
for the enjoyment of all its users.
- Unless expressly authorized by
EA, you may not sell, buy, trade or otherwise transfer your Account or
any personal access to EA Services, Content or Entitlements, including
by use of auction websites.
- You may not conduct any activities that
violate the laws of any jurisdiction including but not limited to
copyright infringement, trademark infringement, defamation, invasion of
privacy, identity theft, hacking, stalking, fraud and the distribution
of counterfeit software.
- Post or transmit unsolicited advertising, promotional materials or other forms of solicitation in-game or in the forums.
- Abuse or exploit bugs, undocumented features, design errors or problems in the game.
- “Role–playing” is not an excuse for violating this or any other policy.
Specific EA Services may also post additional rules that apply to your conduct on those services.
You
must also obey all federal, state, and local laws, regulations and
rules that apply to your activities when you use EA Services. EA
reserves the right to terminate your Account and to prevent your use of
any and all EA Services if your Account is used to engage in illegal
activity or to violate this Terms of Service.
Unless otherwise
specified, there is no requirement or expectation that EA will monitor
or record any online activity on EA Services, including communications.
However, EA reserves the right to access and/or record any online
activity on EA Services and you give EA your express consent to access
and record your activities. EA reserves the right to remove any content
from any EA Service at EA's sole discretion. EA has no liability for
your or any third party's violation of this Agreement.
If you
encounter another user who is violating any of the Rules of Conduct,
please report this activity to EA using the "Help" or "Report Abuse"
functions in the relevant EA Service, if available, or contact Customer
Support at help.ea.com, support.popcap.com (for PopCap products) or swtor.com/support (for Star Wars™: The Old Republic).