Sony Online Entertainment will ban players for online abuse outside of their games

Well I don't mind, since I'm not an asshole.

I wouldn't care, I never act like that online in any game. And for those who do, serves them right. The more games those people stay out of thanks to their shitty behaviour, the more happy I am. Let them burn.

i hate SoE.. they didn't migrate my account nor cash from US to EU, and all they could tell me is "we just couldn't do it"...

'Never even heard of this game before'. <- Have you even skimmed through the article?

'SOE' Is not a game, that abbreviation stands for Sony Online Entertainment.

My thoughts? That's one damn slippery slope they're setting up, there.

I'm all for holding people accountable for vile behaviour, like rallying people for hate maneuvers or griefing, doxing people or harassment away from the game. Yet if they don't apply some solid guidelines to themselves when it comes to this, it's only a matter of time before a member of staff has a bad day, takes personal offence to a minor thing, and scrubs someone's account without recourse. If you don't hold your staff accountable if they make bad calls with these kinds of measures, you're creating a really dividing double-edged sword in your customer service. It has the potential to go either way, and it also follows into the worrying trend of firing people for unrelated things they do in their personal time.

The people who get banned probably desirve that.

The PC Gamer article doesn't explain what SOE is. It owes me a Google search.
Edit: Oh cool. The thread title was updated with the information. Thanks!

I didn't get what SOE was at first either lol. Now I know...

What I'm wondering is how they would prove that the out-of-game persona doing the harassment is really the owner of that particular game account if it's on Twitter or Facebook. It's really not hard for anyone to go and make an account with the same name as yours; nor is it hard for people to use different e-mail addresses for different things...

Idea - great (world would be so much better without those kids that stalk my mom :( ). Only question: is Sony good enough to not throw unjustified bans?
Like that one someone received on EA Forums, which also affected his Origin, when he used "I'm 12 and what's that" meme...

What I do when I am not playing their games is none of their business. They really have no right doing what they are trying to do to be honest.

That being said I try to treat everyone fairly, and be nice to people in general. However I have joked around with people and made a few sarcastic comments in the past that could easily be seen as being mean. Very slippery slope they are dealing with. Depending on how far they go with this can end up in extremely bad PR.

Well, guess you shouldn't plan on posting any negative reviews about Sony games if you intend to play their games.

Well, Linda Carlson is an asshole and I'll just have to boycott SOE from now on.

Basically a way to give people who hate you an incentive to look you up outside of the games to see if you're VAC banned, or if you've slipped up at any time on your social media accounts. So now Sony fanboys will have to live up to SOE's standards or fear penalties, though no one should really give a duck about them.

I'm of the opinion that each new game should have its own ban system and that it should not be a collective list of everyone's past mistakes. If someone buys your game and you decide to ban them because of some f'd up policy like this from the getgo, you'll either have to offer them a full refund or face lawsuits. I don't approve of Sony harassing users and marking them wherever they go. That's not what it's about and it helps no one.

Simple solution: Don't buy/play their games.