EA PERMANENTLY BANS a user and his account for typing 'STFU'.
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The consequence of the newly emerging subscription and fee per product hybrid model. Where you don't own the product you paid for and you pay an ongoing licence fee to be able to use it. At any moment, if you even so much as look at a EA moderator in the wrong way, your purchases are seized and your access to the things you paid for is permanently denied. They can also implement planned obsolescence so if they want you to upgrade and pay for the new product, they can nudge you in that direction.
They feed on the psychology of fear of missing out (FOMO) to get everyone to embrace the model.
Also like the politicians they are exploiting the fake concept of hate speech and people's fear of being labeled a bad person. This example is nothing but even the whole idea that you can't say nigger or faggot was a scheme for more control by the corporations. If it was only a liability/image concern they'd let third parties handle game chat.
I would be open to considering a system where I pay a monthly fee to access a studio's entire library. I am not interested in paying $60+ for a game and then a monthly fee in order to play it. I think that's a big part of why Google's Stadia failed.
I get the impression that they're not going to learn the lessons of Stadia because of hubris. They consider themselves "too big to fail".
It's why I'm moving more and more towards purchases that I can control, like how GoG provides actual installation executables or Comics that come as honest to god .pdfs that I can do whatever I want with.