“EA forum banning is a huge misunderstanding” Remember a few days ago of the incident with the C&C community manager stating the fact that if you’re banned on EA’s forum, you’re banned from all EA games?* Turns out he is apologizing as it was following up on some bad information.* He apologizes in his letter below and let users know if was a blunder on his behalf. It takes a lot of guts to apologize and I respect Kaufman for coming clean.* But somehow I have doubts that it truely was a misunderstanding.* I’m willing to bet EA planned for this idea to occur but they didn’t realize how much angry they would put the gaming community through. Hey everyone, If you didn’t notice, your C&C Community Manager, me, had a bit of a run-in with the video game blogging media today in reference to a direct quote I made on our forums here a few days ago in regards to how we handle bans and suspensions on the forums and in-game. You all know how we are greatly trying to protect and serve you from those who wish to disrupt our C&C community by breaking ToS on our forums or in-game, and I know everyone appreciates when we take action on those that are the worst. That said, the previous statement I made recently (that’s being quoted on the blogs) was inaccurate and a mistake on my part. I had a misunderstanding with regards to our new upcoming forums and website and never meant to infer that if we ban or suspend you on the forums, you would be banned in-game as well. This is not correct, my mistake, my bad. If we suspend or ban you from the forums, that does not affect your in-game account and certainly it does not impact your in-game account for other games. Quite often we usually warn you before taking any type of action, suspend you before considering any type of ban, etc. I am sure you guys know that we are fairly tolerant and stress that you please show respect to others, but we also understand the forums are a place to be heard and express your opinion in a constructive manner. Everyone has their “flame” moments. Your Posting in our official C&C EA Forums is enabled by an EA Nucleus account (the Master EA Account you typically login with to chose your Persona) — but access to the forums and access to the games are separate. Players who have been banned from EA Forums are not automatically banned from online access to their other EA games, or the game associated with that particular forum. Players can be warned, suspended, and/or then banned if they breach the Terms of Service or Code of Conduct in a forum, game or service. Each forum, game and service is managed independently by our customer support representatives responsible for that specific forum, game or service. Suffice to say, when we take action on someone on our C&C forums here, for any number of ToS breaking reasons, it does not impact your C&C game account or any other EA Game Account connected to your forum name. The mods here do a great job of alerting me when we need to warn someone or take further action, if I haven’t seen it myself or heard it in a thread from one of you, but any action we take on a C&C Forum User, doesn’t impact their in-game status. I apologize for the misunderstanding, but I hope everyone is able to see the greater good intent in that we are simply trying to keep the forums and in-game as friendly and fun environments as possible, just know that those two environments are treated [separately] by myself, the mods, and especially our Customer Support team. =) Sincerely, APOC Source:* Ripten
My response to this is unprintable on a family rated forum. How stupid do you think we are, Kaufman? The original message seemed crystal clear to me, and wasn't a typo, an ambiguous comment that could be misconstrued - it was a direct threat to everyone to explain what will happen if they don't play nice. Message was received loud and clear by the fans. Fans kicked off about it, rightly so, and then you send a patronising message that insults our intelligence. Your mistake? Like heck. More like PR damage control due to backlash from fans. How can you have made such a mistake? Do you even think before you speak? Lil tip for the future: take your head outta your butt before attempting to communicate with the gaming world. Double, and triple check all outgoing messages, for factual accuracy. Check again. Ask someone else to check it for you, then check one more time.
