{"id":1132,"date":"2024-05-01T15:13:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2024-05-10T01:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T01:58:17","slug":"ea-sunt-ai-dracului-de-prosti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/en\/ea-are-fcking-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"ea are fucking stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n\n<p><strong>Like, electronic arts. Not \u2018ea\u2019 (romanian feminine pronoun) the woman\u2026 those i am a fan of. \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the story: my friend had a shared \u2018ea\u2019 account, with her ex, to play the sims 4. Expansion packs, all the works. As you may be able to tell from me having said \u2018ex\u2019, she\u2019s not with that idiot anymore. But neither does she have the sims\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why? Because she\u2019s dumb, but so are the electronic arts people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, i say that about her with love. About them, with a middle finger up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her account was on a shared email address. Ok\u2026 she had the account details. When they broke up, mr. ex told her to keep the account so she could play. She, out of respect, decided not to change the account details.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Again, why? I don\u2019t know. She\u2019s stupid.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she tried logging on, the new \u2018ea app\u2019 (since it\u2019s not \u2018origin anymore, because why would it still be \u2018origin\u2019...) sent her a confirmation code on her email. So far, so good\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\"><strong>\u2026not quite. <\/strong>She tried accessing said email; password was changed, the phone number to change the password wasn\u2019t hers anymore, but of the wonderful mr. ex. So that didn\u2019t work either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\">Any half-brained person would now think: <em>\u2018just message the fucker for the password code thing\u2019.<\/em> Myeah, we\u2019re all that smart. Mr. ex had blocked (?) her on absolutely everything. Him\u2026 and his mom? I swear some beings are completely beyond me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried messaging him myself, as yet another alpha male, since obviously, i\u2019m solving it. How could my friend be upset? No way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I\u2019m blocked too\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And with this, all of our friends have tried. The ones that had not been blocked before were either completely ignored, or ignored and then blocked. Yay :)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\"><strong>The fuck? <\/strong>For a shitty password\u2014actually not even a password, but a code on an email\u2014to which only he had access. You\u2019d think i\u2019d messaged him to donate his liver to guatemala. It would\u2019ve taken <strong>3 minutes<\/strong>, the whole thing, if he hadn\u2019t been such an cocksucker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\">And yeah, i know what you\u2019re probably thinking: <strong>not the case.<\/strong> They broke up amicably, actually he broke up with her since he\u2019d found someone else. So i\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s the current gf\u2019s fault\u2014can\u2019t call her names, never met her\u2014or what the situation is. Either way, it\u2019s incredibly stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018Yeah, ok, and \u2018ea\u2019 is at fault\u2026 how exactly?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bear with me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We said we\u2019d message customer support, since we were sure something could be done to change the email of an account the user no longer has access to, right? Especially if a lot of money had been spent on that account\u2026 right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>wrong...<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we spoke to what\u2019s-their-face from customer support, they told my friend to give the following information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ip address (network where they play on):<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>date of birth (provided during account creation):<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>one purchase on account and purchase date (month\/year):<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>last 4 digits of credit card:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>billing address:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>phone number:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>...<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\">Just to be clear, they mean the ip from a house they\u2019ve not lived in together since fuck knows then, date of birth (<em>ok<\/em>), a dated transaction (<em>of which the invoice would be on the email she can\u2019t access<\/em>), last 4 digits of the card (<em>one of which would\u2019ve been his, and one hers but expired<\/em>), address, phone number, whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\">She gave them as much information as she could, like date of birth, her card from that time, the address they lived at, and the idiot\u2019s phone number\u2026 and other shit, like: username history, all the games in the library, and other data specific to the account that you can\u2019t have known unless <strong>you owned the account.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>i have checked the details on my end and i would like to inform you that the information shared above for account ownership verification does not match the details updated on the account we are trying to recover. for now, i can only ask you to please create a new case to contact us again and share new set of information or try changing some of the information shared above and that might do the trick for you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I pasted the answer exactly. No, i didn\u2019t change the grammar. Yes, they\u2019re dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To create a new ticket, to wait another half hour, to redo the entire conversation from scratch, simply because the correct information didn\u2019t work on their end?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>please do not lose hope as i can understand that it is an old account and i do believe you are a genuine player and i really want to help you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This one\u2019s just brilliant. <em>no comment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\">Of course, with the new ticket came the exact same chain of events and resolution. So, tldr: <strong>no sims 4, no access to the money spent on the account, no account, no nothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a little moment of divine intervention, i thought that maybe, if she already has the sims 4 installed and logs onto a new account, the \u2018ea app\u2019 will somehow detect the game and it\u2019ll work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\">It <strong><em>doesn\u2019t<\/strong><\/em> work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\">It <strong><em>doesn\u2019t<\/strong><\/em> boot the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It gives you an error and prompts you to log onto the correct account or buy the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jesus\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s more upsetting is that apparently, this isn\u2019t a new issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/themes\/groovy\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-20.57.28-1024x633.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1134\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-20.57.28-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-20.57.28-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-20.57.28-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-20.57.28-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-07-at-20.57.28.png 1478w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/ea-services-general-questions\/recover-your-old-ea-account\/m-p\/8423384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Honestly, read the whole thread. It\u2019s garbage.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/themes\/groovy\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/unnamed-1024x612.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1135\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/unnamed-1024x612.png 1024w, https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/unnamed-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/unnamed-768x459.png 768w, https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/unnamed-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/frecam-menta.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/unnamed.png 1470w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/general-discussion\/absolutely-ridiculous-account-recovery-problem\/m-p\/9830761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Completely agree.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to mention that from what i\u2019m reading on forums, it appears as if some people were asked different questions. Something about games, fifa, whatever. So the information my friend gave should\u2019ve been more than enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>guess not.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So\u2026 if anyone knows how to solve this, if anyone has a solution, leave a comment or drop me a message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And the moral of the story: fuck electronic arts. Don\u2019t share accounts. Don\u2019t be stupid out of respect for other people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that\u2019s all.<\/p>\n\n<hr>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Like, electronic arts. Not \u2018ea\u2019 (romanian feminine pronoun) the woman\u2026 those i am a fan of. \ud83d\ude42 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the story: my friend had a shared \u2018ea\u2019 account, with her ex, to play the sims 4. Expansion packs, all the works. As you may be able to tell from me having said \u2018ex\u2019, she\u2019s not with that idiot anymore. 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