Right, but you’re on Kotaku, you’re probably a gamer, that’s your perspective. He clearly thought that some major corporation using his handle was offensive to him and he used said handle to blast them, I think that’s understandable. EA didn’t respond back to him according to the article, but the fans did, because…

I find the concept of paying a $200 dollars at least hourly to get a corporation to notice your legitimate complaint for something they should’ve done their due diligence on absurd, yet entirely an American explanation.

If EA wanted to protect themselves, and they should, because that’s what you have legal departments for? They’d have somebody sit down and make however many Twitter accounts under the names they’d chosen before finalizing that part of the game, so EA would own all the handles and it would be impossible to match up 1:1…

As I understand it a lawyer wasn’t involved until the fans got butt hurt and went all harassing and racist. Maybe the fans shouldn’t be emotionally invested in a video game such that they feel the need to escalate something that genuinely doesn’t involve them? Him getting upset I understand. EA responding to him I…

I get all that, but given the trajectory we’re going with online identities maybe it’s time we consider maybe there should be more due diligence with this stuff.

Now considering the hassle this is causing EA, there definitely should be more due diligence with this.

Finally, having worked for an EA company... HAHAHAHA,…

I mean, yeah they were racist but he was RUDE!

DOES NOT MATTER! Everyone has Personality Rights - “the right of an individual to control the commercial use of his or her name, image, likeness, or other unequivocal aspects of one’s identity.”

I personally don’t buy the “coincident” excuse because it’s not even probable to get his name and handle to match. It is more believeable if someone in the EA team got lazy and made a list of actual existing handle. I won’t be surprise if this is not an isolated issue.

It is in fact his real name though. His social media handle is his name.

Except apparently they DID use his name. And honestly, the odds that the “fake” name and “fake” twitter handle correspond to the same real person seem pretty small. So small that one could argue it wasn’t coincidence.

What decade do you live in? Tweeting is how people reach out to brands now. An email is far more likely to be ignored and most people don’t have a personal lawyer or the funds to find one.

“The game is bigger than you. Behave,”

Phone numbers in film, tv, and games have long been changed to fictitious 555-#### setups so real people don’t get harassed.

Today an e-mail and potentially a Twitter handle could be considered an equally personal and harass-able thing. I think his complaint it valid and going by the racial harassment and the responses…

Of course people would shit on this guy. “Gamers” aren’t happy if they’re not living up to the stereotype of a bunch of angry neckbeards and man-children living in their moms’ basements.

“The game is bigger than you. Behave,”

EA cementing their reputation as one of the most hated companies in America by not even acknowledging their error until he got a lawyer involved...

For the rest of our lives, decades from now, the most withering insult any of us will have to conjure to describe a certain type of person will forever be “Trump Supporter”.

There is a greater than 0% chance (less than 50%, but still, greater than 0%) that he will be the next President of the United States. This alone makes me hold every registered Republican in disdain for the foreseeable future. I don’t care if they voted for someone else in the primary, they have still participated in…

I would give $100,000 to the NRA if Donald Trump lets me punch him in the cock.

Mr. Trump, can you promise me that college graduates up to their eyeballs in debt will have jobs making iPhones in shitty work environments?