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[Gravisanimi]

Anyone who puts faith in a company will feel betrayed eventually.

[Liamv2]

Then complain and keep doing so until they unban you. It will take a while but assuming your not a troll and making **** up they can't do that to you by law.

[bmwcrazy]

Anyone who puts faith in a company will feel betrayed eventually.

 

I certainly hope that Valve won't do anything similar.

 

I have nearly 300 games on my Steam accounts.

[TheClonesLegacy]

Bejeweled 3 is some major stuff man. You have my sympathies.

[wolfhowwl]

PC sure is the master race.

 

Save yourselves and buy a PS4.

[bmwcrazy]

PC sure is the master race.
 
Save yourselves and buy a PS4.

Yeah, at least when our PSN accounts got hacked, Sony gave us all free games instead of banning everyone. 

[TheClonesLegacy]

Not everyone can react the same way as you do when they find their Origin account banned. Some people have invested more time and money on their Origin account than others.

Just imagine one day EA bans your account because someone hacked it and your bank issued a chargeback. Now you can't play ME3, BF3, BF4, or even the recently preordered DA:I. All your hard earned weapon upgrades, achievements, kill stats, friends list, and DLCs are all gone. That makes a lot of sense, does it?

I'm not going to be able to sleep until I address this. And honestly BMW I'd rather not have another long winded argument that leads to complete animosity like what happened with me and Chris92.
I'll say this. I get why he's mad. Perfectly clear. What I don't get is why give up? Regardless a hobby is going to have difficulties. Adversity. Hell that's life in a nutshell. What happened with OP sucked. It really does, but everything he's doing, all this bridge burning, just seems like an overreaction.
Nothing about what happened makes me think he should stop gaming. I could walk a mile in those shoes but ultimately my conclution wouldn't match his. If you like something, A roadblock like this shouldn't make you give up. It to me means your heart was never in it to begin with, you never actually cared about it.

Sorry I posted this incomplete. Phones suck.

[bmwcrazy]

You've changed your tone completely from your original posts. I'm just gonna quote you again.

Whenever someone decides to "give up on gaming" due to something that's wronged them, they must make a big production out of it.
Long winded posts, the whining, etc.
It's an obvious attention grab. You wanna stop gaming because EA are an entire company of jerks? Good for you, go do that.
You don't have to come here to announce to the masses you're retiring from gaming.
 
Granted you're more within your right to do so. But so too am I within my rights to call you out on it.

If you're as understandable as you claim, please for the love of God, don't just start your first post accusing OP of whining, attention grabbing, or being a "Dramatic Danny."

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Calling out OP like that certainly isn't helping in this case.

[EpicU Sheppard]

Hey look, somebody who uninstalled Steam, and blamed Origin over it. What the heck?

My faith in humanity is lost.

[Jallard]

Not everyone can react the same way as you do when they find their Origin account banned. Some people have invested more time and money on their Origin account than others.

 

Just imagine one day EA bans your account because someone hacked it and your bank issued a chargeback. Now you can't play ME3, BF3, BF4, or even the recently preordered DA:I. All your hard earned weapon upgrades, achievements, kill stats, friends list, and DLCs are all gone. That makes a lot of sense, does it?

 

 

Thank you for sticking up for me. Much appreciated.

[Fidite Nemini]

Because you didn't answer my question:

 

Did you charge back? Did the bank possibly charge back after you blocked your card?

[Chris]

Sry to hear it man and yeah Origin is ****** sh!t, i lost all games too over a year ago, will never again use it, was not hacked but closed of EA's bullsh!t for some unknown reason, can't say i miss out on any games on it anyway since the library is utterly underwhelming.

[The Valiant Misanthropist]

That sucks. :/ Origin as always seemed if'y to Me, so I never have installed it or bought anything from it. However, I think it's going a bit overboard to give on gaming forever and taking it out on Steam, which run by a completely different company and..well, enemy of EA. O-o

I mean, you obviously like playing games, otherwise you wouldn't have any to begin with. I can understand you're mad right now, I would be too, and, if what you're saying is true, it's a crime what EA and I'm not surprised at all.

Boycott EA or sue them(though that may not be the best idea unless you have a lot of money). That's what I would do.

Also, there is one digital distribution platform, which is DRM-free. It's called GOG, I get most My games from there when I can. Though they don't have as many games and certainly not many newer AAA games, but they don't treat you like criminal or **** like Origin does and lacks the over DRM of Steam.

[Jallard]

That sucks. :/ Origin as always seemed if'y to Me, so I never have installed it or bought anything from it. However, I think it's going a bit overboard to give on gaming forever and taking it out on Steam, which run by a completely different company and..well, enemy of EA. O-o

I mean, you obviously like playing games, otherwise you wouldn't have any to begin with. I can understand you're mad right now, I would be too, and, if what you're saying is true, it's a crime what EA and I'm not surprised at all.

Boycott EA or sue them(though that may not be the best idea unless you have a lot of money). That's what I would do.

Also, there is one digital distribution platform, which is DRM-free. It's called GOG, I get most My games from there when I can. Though they don't have as many games and certainly not many newer AAA games, but they don't treat you like criminal or **** like Origin does and lacks the over DRM of Steam.

 

 

Oh, I haven't given up entirely. I have been watching Gopher's videos on using Mod Organizer for Skyrim, FO3 and FNV. In the meantime, I sent another 48 emails to accountdisputes@ea.com this morning demanding that they lift that ban immediately, if not sooner.  And, you are right I don't the wherewithal to hire and attorney to fight them in a court of law. I live on my meager social security. But, I did report them to the BBB, for the good it will do. I may even contact the Oregon Attorney General and file a complaint. They think the customers are thieves when they themselves commit that very act.

[Isichar]

I'm on the position of leaning towards the OP's side. If I spend 60+ bucks on a game and buy all the DLC and then get locked out of all of that content for any given reason I'm going to be pissed off. This has happened to me several times with EA content. To EA's credit I've always managed to get things fixed but I think it's complete bullshit to penolize the people who are actually supporting your games. This is why I will almost exclusively deal with companies like GoG when I have the chance because I don't feel like they're just trying to milk me every step of the way.

I shouldn't have to care about EA protecting their IP's.. Once I've payed for the game I shouldn't have to worry about any of that stuff, and yet it's become a constant source of frustration in the past. I drop 60 bucks on a game and can't play it because EA needs to "protect their IP"? Terrible business practice and terrible way to go about dealing with the consumer and it's made even worse by them endlessly justifying it and then turning around and claiming they care what gamers think whenever they start trying to market their next game.

I do agree with others that this isn't particularly steams fault though so I'd cut them some slack.

[Fidite Nemini]

I'm on the position of leaning towards the OP's side. If I spend 60+ bucks on a game and buy all the DLC and then get locked out of all of that content for any given reason I'm going to be pissed off.

 

The ongoing suspicion that I have however is that the OP is not telling the whole story.

 

It could be he's just not reading his own thread properly and resigned himself to venting, but I've asked about those charge-backs which according to the OP are the reason for the banned account and OP has not given any answer. If he or the bank charged back the money for those deals, then this is a clear breach of contract on his part. He did recieve the games as per purchase and charging back the money is like going to the store, buying some stuff, then yank the money back once they put the stuff in your bag and running away. The only way EA can get their good back is to ban the account those games are tied to.

 

If the account was really hacked and used to purchase games from the existing billing data from said account (which to be perfectly honest seems a bit odd because why on earth would the hacker not change the account log-in after having hijacked it?) and that issue was truly resolved with EA as OP stated, they wouldn't refund some of it, they'd refund all of it, delete the games he didn't want from his account and that would be it. Where did that odd nineteen bucks of the refund that's missing go?

 

 

 

There's holes in this story that the OP is not filling out that make it hard for me to sympathize, especially coupled with that nonsensical kneejerk reaction about Steam, which has exactly zero to do with any issues EA has.

[Farangbaa]

I stopped reading after 3 months of vacation

 

 

3 months... damn.

[Farangbaa]

The ongoing suspicion that I have however is that the OP is not telling the whole story.

 

It could be he's just not reading his own thread properly and resigned himself to venting, but I've asked about those charge-backs which according to the OP are the reason for the banned account and OP has not given any answer. If he or the bank charged back the money for those deals, then this is a clear breach of contract on his part. He did recieve the games as per purchase and charging back the money is like going to the store, buying some stuff, then yank the money back once they put the stuff in your bag and running away. The only way EA can get their good back is to ban the account those games are tied to.

 

If the account was really hacked and used to purchase games from the existing billing data from said account (which to be perfectly honest seems a bit odd because why on earth would the hacker not change the account log-in after having hijacked it?) and that issue was truly resolved with EA as OP stated, they wouldn't refund some of it, they'd refund all of it, delete the games he didn't want from his account and that would be it. Where did that odd nineteen bucks of the refund that's missing go?

 

 

 

There's holes in this story that the OP is not filling out that make it hard for me to sympathize, especially coupled with that nonsensical kneejerk reaction about Steam, which has exactly zero to do with any issues EA has.

 

And this.

[Melra]

I, too, threw my Lumia into a wall, because the new Iphone was crap, f*ck Nokia.

[Jallard]

The ongoing suspicion that I have however is that the OP is not telling the whole story.

 

It could be he's just not reading his own thread properly and resigned himself to venting, but I've asked about those charge-backs which according to the OP are the reason for the banned account and OP has not given any answer. If he or the bank charged back the money for those deals, then this is a clear breach of contract on his part. He did recieve the games as per purchase and charging back the money is like going to the store, buying some stuff, then yank the money back once they put the stuff in your bag and running away. The only way EA can get their good back is to ban the account those games are tied to.

 

If the account was really hacked and used to purchase games from the existing billing data from said account (which to be perfectly honest seems a bit odd because why on earth would the hacker not change the account log-in after having hijacked it?) and that issue was truly resolved with EA as OP stated, they wouldn't refund some of it, they'd refund all of it, delete the games he didn't want from his account and that would be it. Where did that odd nineteen bucks of the refund that's missing go?

 

 

 

There's holes in this story that the OP is not filling out that make it hard for me to sympathize, especially coupled with that nonsensical kneejerk reaction about Steam, which has exactly zero to do with any issues EA has. 

 

 

I hate to disappoint you but I am telling the truth. I have no reason to lie. I don't play sports games, so why would I buy them? Besides the fact that I hate soccer and those were the games that were purchased: FIFA 15 was one of them. I play games like Skyrim, Fallout 3, FNV, Dragon Age Origin and the Mass Effect Trilogy. If you had access to my Origin account you would see that, just as EA can. I was also planning on purchasing Dragon Age Inquisition--until now. As for Origin and Steam I don't like either one and never have. The only way I can play Skyrim and FNV is through Steam. Just like with Mass Effect 2 and 3 and now DA Inquisition. As far as the $19.99 you'd have to ask my bank.  But, I have never pressed the issue. I just want my account back.  Once again, nitwit, I did nor order those games. So STHU. 

[Jallard]

It really sad that so many of you blame the victim, but then we all do live in America, and in the twenty-first century you are guilty until proven innocent. People love to armchair quarterback with absolutely no knowledge of the truth. Because, if the truth were known you couldn't put your fellow man down, as so many of you get your kicks from. In my sixty-seven years I have never lived in a more disgusting society, as we live in today.

[Jallard]

So you fight it, don't just ragequit.

I'd be angry too, but the thing to do is get to the bottom of it. It gets you your games back, and it shows at least SOMEbody at EA that they should be doing this, rather than a bunch of people vanishing when their accounts are banned for something like this (which, if left unchecked, implies to EA that they did the right thing).

 

 

Oh, I am still fighting it. I just sent them another 50 emails today, to accountdisputes@ea.com. I will be sending another bunch in the morning. This how I have been spending my first morning cup of coffee, these last few days.