Call of Duty / Modern Warfare 3

[Darkdrium777]

EA account = origin.

Fixed. Nowadays for all new games that's how it will be.

They should've sent you an e-mail that looked like this.

[Hellfire_WZ]

Martin - EA responded to the inactivity thing earlier in the month. They will only delete inactive accounts if nothing has been bought with them. If you've bought any games or any DLC with the account it will not be removed due to inactivity.

[mdhay]

Aaah, sorta improves the situation, they're still dicks, though.

[RedScar]

It would see I have such an email DD777, went to my junk email XD. Touche

@ Mdhay, and any large gaming company isn't? Activision forcing steam on me with MW2 and BO is still a huge sticking point and why I now refuse to buy any of their products, MW3 or otherwise. DICE and EA gave me BF2, quite possibly my favorite game of all time. It had (and still has some) flaws. They however made large attempts to fix them. The broken spawn system and completely unbalanced gameplay elements in MW2 and BO are still there and take forever for even small tweaks to come about. I was fooled twice already by them, and I don't plan being fooled a third time.

I know we obviously have different opinions, so lets agree to disagree and just conclude that big business and games mixed is bad for gamers when its comes to EA/Activision.

[mdhay]

Believe me RedScar, I wasn't planning to disagree with you. This is the industry now, and as much as I'd like to say that there's a light at the end of the tunnel, there probably won't be. But anyway, I'm delrailing this thread.

[RedScar]

Well Mdhay, its looks like I owe you an apology as you are 100% right. Looking further into this Origin talk, and come across this,

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comme...ycotting_will/

Defiantly pissed, although not enough to cancel my pre-order. Have to do some more research, but as one of the users in that link posted, this is illegal in Canada so I can only hope the EULA is different for me. Pre-order is defiantly on the chopping block now.

[mdhay]

You don't.

[mdhay]

Turns out EA can monitor you and scan your hard drive using Origin (link to EULA (.pdf), link to PixelsorDeath article).
Now remember, they will eventually make you use Origin, with retail and digital purchasing, now there will be those who don't mind, but it is an invasion of privacy, if you're not comfortable, do not buy any future releases from them.

[RedScar]

or use sandboxie, a free-ware that isolates origin from the rest of your HDD!

[mdhay]

Good to see that there's software to isolate it, about time these companies learned their place.