It's banhammer time! In order to streamline their accounts system, it looks like Electronic Arts is also resorting to some strict measures along the way.

With the Master EA Accounts, users get to log on to EA games with the use of just one account name. It's this same Master account that is now going to be used in EA-monitored forums as well. Makes sense, right? Lots of publishers make use of universal accounts these days. Just one example of many is the SOE ID system.

Unfortunately, not everything is right as rain for EA gamers who decide to get rowdy, as Shacknews points out. Upon explaining the new Command & Conquer forum rules, forum admin eaapoc said that getting banned in the forums now gets you banned also in the game. Oh, not just a game, but effectively all other EA games (which require your Master Account) too.

It's actually going to be a bit nastier for those who get banned.

Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you'd actually be banned from your other EA games as well since its all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It's all one in the same, so I strongly reccommend people play nice and act mature.

All in all, we expect people to come on here and abide by our ToS. We hate banning people, it makes our lives a lot tougher, but its what we have to do.

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