EA Crackdown

[Sweetpea]

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HOLD UP. When you buy a gun I am sure you sign a contract which says you can do or can not do certain things am I right? that's why not everyone is aloud to have a gun....
1) When I bought the game the dude who sold it to me didn't say nothing about point farming
2) When I read forums before the game came out I read nothing about point farming
3) When I read the booklet that came with the game I read nothing about point farming
Now that I bought the game knowing that I can do this they go and change the rules? and I am not saying I point farm k people I am just defending this cuz I find that EA is diong a really stupid thing.

I've held up; more of a stutter-step in actuality. I haven't read it all myself, and if what I'm about to say is incorrect, then fellow forum-goers have at me. I'm fairly certain EA's behaviour is completely justified as contained in the EULA that we all agreed to prior to installing the game. Just saying...

[imported_iLemon]

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Personally, I think it's stupid. Seriously. I've never farmed points and I'm not in a clan. I just think it's ridiculous that they're going to punish people for farming. I mean, look at it in their perspective. EA makes it damn near impossible to rank up without having to stop everything you do in life and play, play, play. I'm not saying that the ranks should be simple to get at; that would make ranking up too easy. But it's just a dumb concept of having to reach the scores you have to reach in order to rank up and get access to a weapon. To make it COMPLETELY fair, you'd have to play 24/7 Karkand, get 100 points a round, and play at LEAST all day (literally) to get anywhere with points. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad there is some sort of an award system in the game, that makes it all the more fun and challenging. Just don't make it so challenging that you have to dedicate your every breath into the game.

stop everything you do in real life? i guess if your only gunna play the game for a month. i plan on playing the game a year or more and think how long it takes is great.

[ICPO]

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stop everything you do in real life? i guess if your only gunna play the game for a month. i plan on playing the game a year or more and think how long it takes is great.

I dont really care about the ranks. I mean sure i'd like to rank up but I'm not going to play until my eyes bleed to get enough points. I'll work at my own pace and get there eventually. Keyword EVENTUALLY

[TVR_Fan]

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Yeah we get the picture ICPO you know we not all n00bs.

[ICPO]

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Yeah we get the picture ICPO you know we not all n00bs.

DID I EVER CALL ANYONE A NOOB!!! NO GOD D@#$ IT AND I NEVER HAVE AND NEVER WILL BECAUSE I DONT DEMORALIZE PEOPLE GOD D@#$ IT!!!!

[Jaxx]

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K so let me get this straight they are saying if you get caught or are they going to go back in time and research everyones stats? Seems like that would take ages and also take out about 60%-70% of the whole bf2 community. Reset all them stats I doubt it. No one would ever log back in after that happened. Hummm we shall see won't we.

[BLeh]

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for those that think you can lock the server as a clan to farm you cant. ranked server can not be locked. this is the way the game was ment to be played. that is why EA said when the game was released that they have a ranking system that will take over a year of play time to get through. that dont expect people to bs the process and gain 3 ranks in one week. if you think they are bluffing go talk to the [LM] clan they have had members with there stats reset. they are serious and its good.

OKAY Ranked servers can be locked all you need is 6 people and a admin they all stat farm and you kick people while they are loading they cannot stop this. I have spent all my summer 2 months playing bf2 from 5 hours a day to 16 hours a day and I am still not a seargent okay and when school starts I will be playing less than a hour a day as in I will never be able to beat the game and I really want to get all the medals, ribbons and guns

[neocitron]

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this is general common sense... it's like the people that think stealing music is right... and the moral people who use iTunes store or just go out and buy music...

it doesn't have to be stated... it's common sense that stat padding is cheating since it really does feel like cheating when you do it.

[pastorjames]

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I don't think downloading music via BT or mIRC is bad, it's just so much easier to do then drive down to the record store and pay $14 for a CD. That's like $3 of gas wasted there, I only get like 10 mpg in my truck

[Buttwipe]

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F... U ELECTRONIC ARTS! I HAVE paid for this game so I can play on any Ranked server I want to ! I am not pointfarming or something. If they really reset the stats because of playing on a knife only server me and my gang would move to another game and we would NEVER buy EA crap anymore.

[ProfLiebstrom]

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The official line for when you get reset for stat padding is.

"Exploitation of game/service mechanics"

You all agreed to the EULA when you clicked accept. It isn't EA's fault if you didn't read it and get reset or have your server removed because you broke the EULA.

[imported_Apostle]

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I've read bits of this thread, it is a long one, and find some peoples comments a bit silly.

You have bought the game yeah, but then you're also using a service (as a player joining a ranked server), subscription free, that is hosted by EA (the stats collecting servers). The stat's have to be equally gained by all players otherwise they mean absolutely nothing, which puts into doubt everybodys global scores whether they've cheated/exploited or not.

You still have the unranked servers to play all these mini-mod's on though. Also just think, unless EA sort out a "unofficial" stat's gathering system ("soon/never"), all the fantastic mod's that will soon be coming out are unranked. You gonna cry then too?

[Scoobing]

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Alot of people won't play mods or custom maps alot because then they will have to leave ranked servers. It's sad and means that some maps and mods won't be as popular as they should. Starting to think this whole ranked/unranked server thing has done more harm than good.

[imported_iLemon]

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K so let me get this straight they are saying if you get caught or are they going to go back in time and research everyones stats? Seems like that would take ages and also take out about 60%-70% of the whole bf2 community. Reset all them stats I doubt it. No one would ever log back in after that happened. Hummm we shall see won't we.

it doesnt take long. you look at peoples best round score. people who have 200+ scores probally were farming.

[David Champion]

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Well it's great they are cracking down on this now as it has gotten out of control... but the damage is done, those with great scores now and have really taken advantage of the situation will now just play regularly and be happy with their high stat' points, nothing else to see here mentality more or less.

As for focusing on clans in general I don't like that, that's like focusing on one employee who may or may not have been the culprit instead of the entire staff. You address the entire community plain and simple not the clan community. Yes, there may have been clan incidences but it most likely a clan that is 2-3 kids just creating a clan figuring lets take the Stats' for a loop... I think they need to address the bugs and the inability to change your name first to stop this, if you were able to change your name I honestly think this would be less enticing to Stat-Pad because you would not have to start a new account with a new Clantag to catch up to your now new Clanmates. Yes, I think it's that simple.
I play a few hours a day and do it earnestly and honestly, and yet somehow I feel cheated cuz' people are Stat-Padding like no ones business and yet they start the crack down now when they new about it well in advance.
EA shot themselves in the foot for lack of a better phrase and now they are penalizing everyone for something they new fool well of. It's quite comical actually.

Anyways I got better things to worry about, like gas prices and life.