Comments on: EA/Maxis Permanently terminates Urizenus Account

By: urizenus

urizenus — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:17:49 +0000

Oh and to answer your question, despite repeated requests from me and various media reporters (most recently from the BBC) there has been no explanation or even a one word communication from EA since the termination.

By: urizenus

urizenus — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:15:01 +0000

Tigger, it would be nice if you EA employees would identify yourselves as such when you post, but that having been said, no…

The “gross enfraction” of the rules consisted of of having alphavilleherald.com in my property description. And, by the way, I had thought that over on the Stratics board you clarified the situation, saying that in-game links to “illegal sites” was against the TOS, but that in game links to sites that link to illegal sites was not in violation. (In which case in-game links to tha alphaville herald should be fine.) Or did I misread your explanation of the rules?

Finally, and frighteningly, you say:
“Censorship or no, the Right to Free Speech is checked at the door once you are on corporate turf. Fairness aside, rights like that are there to protect you fro the Government, not Corporate Entities.”

This claim is utterly false from a legal perspective, but I’m not surprised to find that an EA employee believes it to be the case.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 05:34:21 +0000

I dunno…

Semantically, Carbonprtx has a point, even if it is badly written. :/

He states that “[your] count ( 578372615 ) has been permanently closed for severe and/or repeated Terms of Service or Rules of Conduct violations”.

In that form, it would only take one gross infraction of the rules to ban you, and the deliberation may have taken less than the full 72 hours they alloted with the preliminary suspension.

Censorship or no, the Right to Free Speech is checked at the door once you are on corporate turf. Fairness aside, rights like that are there to protect you fro the Government, not Corporate Entities.

I am really sorry to hear that they were less than eloquent in your dismissal though, as that can really cause more problems than the dismissal itself.

Any comment (from you or EA/Maxis) on the cheating complaint?

By: Yoshiko Washima

Yoshiko Washima — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:51:51 +0000

Well at least you got a “nice” mail, before they disabled your account. And if you want to complain about real nasty censorship, have a look at bioware forums and whats happening there.

Anyone who even remotely accuses Bioware and their employees, especially Mr. Derek French of censorship, is immediatley banned with their CD-Key from the bioware forums. Even discussion of such events by other persons is a reason for another ban.

yours,

Yoshiko Washima

By: Gouf Custom

Gouf Custom — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:56:32 +0000

Oy. I mean, really, what more can you say? Prostitution is bad enough. Doing your prostitution through a computer game is worse. But child prostitution being run through a computer game? Guh.

By: Val

Val — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:34:32 +0000

I never really knew about the cyber prostitution on tso – actually I just thought sims would get into love beds together and that was the sex and ‘prostitution’. Guess I was very naive I am shocked and disgusted – something needs to be done, but what?

By: Gaspah

Gaspah — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 05:35:59 +0000

Damn Maxis is being lame I hope everyone takes acion.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:00:46 +0000

They never stop amazing me, do they not know this is realy bad for business. I am starting to wonder if they are trying to close tso down. Piss the ppl off enough and they will all leave and we can call it a loss.

Stupid pricks!

Yes I did close my account they can kiss my ass. Fat chance I will purchase their crap again.

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:58:29 +0000

WTF is going on with Maxis? They sit up high on their thrones, with certain people (Evangeline) licking their sorry… uh, feet, making our Sims’ lives miserable all because it makes them feel powerful. Guess it goes to show how completely pathetic their lives are in RL. Would serve them right if people started closing accounts over this. Maybe with the maze cheat gone, those who had 2 accounts to do that will close one of theirs. Sounds to me that Maxis doesn’t really need the money though. Sorry bastards.

By: RB

RB — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:27:09 +0000

Rubbish, Absoloute rubbish. GG EA/Maxis on another gay stuff up and attempts to squash bad PR.