{"id":1976,"date":"2008-10-31T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2008-10-31T19:21:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T00:21:29","slug":"ea-the-noose-loosens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"EA: The Noose Loosens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A follow-up to the <a href=\"?p=1969\">earlier post<\/a> about EA taking away your toys if you don&#8217;t play nice, they have issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/87122-EA-Clarifies-Forum-Banning-Policy-UPDATED\">a clarification<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve basically admitted that they have unparalleled power to take from their customers with impunity but&#8230; they have no immediate plans to do so.  This does not comfort me the way they seem to think it should.  The point remains that they reserve the right and the power to take from you, without issuing a refund.  That power is inherent in online activation, which is one reason why I&#8217;ve opposed it from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this might be good news for some of you who who saw this as the last straw.  I still wouldn&#8217;t trust these guys with my money.  I mean, they don&#8217;t trust me with their software, and this is a two-way street.  But if you were willing to do business with them before, then don&#8217;t let the previous post change your stance.  They&#8217;ve backed off from that.  <\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; Happy Halloween, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>(And this just killed an upcoming Stolen Pixels.  Dangit.  Just when I count on them to be evil.  Maybe I&#8217;ll post it here or something.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A follow-up to the earlier post about EA taking away your toys if you don&#8217;t play nice, they have issued a clarification. They&#8217;ve basically admitted that they have unparalleled power to take from their customers with impunity but&#8230; they have no immediate plans to do so. This does not comfort me the way they seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[30,83],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-drm","tag-ea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}