I can’t believe that anyone would think it is a good idea to shut down a few people’s opinions over Dragon Age 2. Is hiding a few posts really worth it in the end? Instead of a few bad reviews, now you have articles about censorship. And one thing that the internet hates is censorship.
A Big ol’ face palm to Stanley Woo, who locked up threads on Bioware’s forums by marking it as spam (See http://www.diedagain.com/bioware-censoring-negative-dragon-age-2-threads for more details). These few negative posts about DA2 apparently must have hit a sore spot because they were quickly nipped in the bud. This article alone is keeping me of the Bioware forum boards, and driving me into the arms of other websites.
This in conjunction with a player being locked out of playing Dragon Age 2 due to a forum ban because he said negative things about EA (see http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Dragon-Age-2-Ban-Hammer-PC-gaming-RPG-Terms-And-Conditions,12371.html for more details) really makes me concerned about the game industry. When did players lose their right to have an opinion? And more importantly, when did big gaming companies get such thin skin?
Well, EA did apologize about locking someone out of the game (see http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/03/13/dragon-age-ii-player-ban-was-a-mistake/ for more details). But they only apologized about locking them out of the game, not banning him from the forums. Considering that the person in question only asked if Bioware had “sold their souls to the EA devil” this still seems like a whiney, immature response on EA’s behalf. Come on EA, you’re a big boy now. Put your Big Boy pants on and start acting like it.
