EA to Gamers : Give us your email, or get lost!

Posted Apr 05, 2006 at 10:19PM by Pranav T.

We told you earlier that EA was asking first-time online Fight Night 3 players to sign up for their mailing list or pay $2 to opt out.

Well, we've received an update. And it's not good by any means.

Ben Kuchera at Opposable Thumbs (an Ars Technica journal) reports that the situation has gotten worse. Apparently, EA Games has access to your Xbox Live account, and that includes - hold your breath - your credit card information! So you don't think it's a big deal ? Well, mention the words 'spam' and 'credit card' in the same sentence and you can expect bad things to happen.

Want more? Well, you can generally opt out of such things, but not with EA. If they can't email you whatever they want (including spam), they block your access to EA's Online Games. Secondly, when you buy an EA Game, you play on servers which aren't as stable as Microsoft's. Plus, you'll be signing up for EA's emails, whether you want to or not.

This whole episode is sure to make gamers angry. Stay tuned for the latest updates.

Source: QJ.NET