In an, by now, unsurprised move by Electronic Ass (EA) they have suddenly given themselves the right to remove your legally bought right to your games if you in their eyes misbehaves in their forum. Apart from the fact that this is clearly illegal since none of their customers have signed any waiver, which throws away their right to their legally purchased expensive content, it is right up EA’s alley. They can decide when you are behaving badly and then when they want you to pay for all your content again – nice move! In the real world where we divide the power into three institutions we are lucky to be protected by the law and not even EA can choose when they want to set aside that law or not. Of course this a nice way to further attack the game-renting market, which they already attacked directly with their 3-install expensive games. Apparently “full control” is the only way EA can think these days on that planet of theirs: User-control with ultra-restrictive DRM, Market-control with “3/5-install-games” and now they think they have control of user demand with their latest streak of madness… Well, another reason to avoid the userfriendly void that is EA.

It is never a pretty sight when a company suddenly consists of 80% lawyers, 17% marketing and only 3% people actually doing something… It happened with the music business and now EA can join them as the first of the gaming publishing company!

However, one would think that a company consisting of 80% lawyers could at least read the law, instead of sitting on that strange planet of theirs and making up their own rules?

EDIT: Now at least some of their 80% lawyers will have something to do up to Christmas