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Comment by kioleanu | Hacker News Reader

I have no words to describe how much I hate this. I bought a game recently, It Takes Two, also from Steam and I had to create an EA Account in order to be able to start this OFFLINE game.

I didn't want to give my infos to EA, so I used an alias adress from Fastmail. I linked the game to the account and, a couple of days later, EA suddenly banned my account, with the game still on it :). Obviously no reason given

They said I can still play what I purchased tho, but that really turned me off from the game.

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Huh. I thought the big fat DRM warning was from Steam, but after your post and before replying, I checked without extensions, and it didn’t show up. So this is actually a feature of the Augmented Steam extension [0]: https://i.imgur.com/5QKoUJB.png

[0]: https://augmentedsteam.com/

I get a DRM Warning from Steam directly also when I visit the page, just not in red

I only get this in the sidebar, far easier to miss: https://i.imgur.com/5rhqKPI.png

I have not bought a EA or Ubisoft game in years on PC due to stuff like this. They are not worth the hassle.

I did the same thing, but AFAICT I don't see any way to continue playing? I've applied for a refund on Steam explaining that due to this requirement it is essentially money stolen, but I got a negative reply based on a high play time (17 hours, including about half idle because I left the house with it running).

I was hoping the current situation would relax the refund policy to include account-linking based fraud to be part of the ToS, but that probably won't be the case now.

when I log in into the EA Client, it says that my account is banned, but I still see the game and I can start it. Any other function is disabled. Is that not working for you?

I cannot log into the account at all, so I'm stuck with the launcher. Weirdly enough the account is still linked with my Steam account, so I can log from one to the other in the browser, but not in the game.

The EA account linking is the only thing keeping me from purchasing It Takes Two. Companies are so desperate to track my data they would rather not have my sale.

It's a fantastic game btw

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