10 Times EA Screwed The Pooch

10. The Origin Forum Bans

Since EA's issues largely revolve around sketchy game development practices, it's often easy to forget that they've also had problems in game selling, through their online store Origins.

One of the most pressing matters came in regards to the link between EA forums and the Origins store. While it was totally fair that people could be banned from any forums for various reasons, these bans came with a decidedly unfair side effect: you would then be unable to use any of the games you had bought, for as long as you were banned from the forum.

The most concerning thing about this is that, when it initially came to light this was happening, EA eventually apologised and informed the unfortunate individual that this had been a mistake, and that they'd take measures to make sure it didn't happen in the future.

But did they actually? Of course not! Months later, another such case came to light, where someone was permanently banned access from their games for using the word "e-peen" in the forums. So it's not as though you had to say something really awful to get your stuff taken from you.