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.
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".