Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26829117-20160522124555/@comment-27798333-20160523020612

1.136.96.145 wrote: For the list, Australia. Have 2 games iOS & Android, different ID's. Both now get 20 per day at exactly 24 hours since the last batch was watched.

@Sirebel - I know we are all hacked off about the ad reduction but I don't understand your argument about Consumer Law breaches? I am not a lawyer but I don't think there is a legal argument you can make. If you pay for Gold and don't receive it then there is a breach of service as you have not received what you have paid for. However, there is no legal right to receive free gold. It's free and it is entirely upto the distributor if you get it or not.

You say that there is a 'recovery' of gold from EA but this is not true. They don't take Gold from your account. Ok, so it limits additional free gold but again, it's free, it's a give away not a right.

I don't see any legal breach of a Consumer law here, just a bad business model where poor customers who pay for GC get treated worse than those who haven't. It is no different to having different levels in a subscriptin service, not everyone is equal.

The game is free, the gold is free, you haven't paid for anything you haven't received. You aren't obliged to play the game, you have entered into it agreeing to the terms of service and you can leave when you choose to do so without incurring a loss. Other than mass complaining from the community there is really no other remedy to the situation. If enough people stopped playing then it would become unfunded and the game would stop. In these cases, Consumer responses change behaviour, not legal arguments.

And for reference, Terms of Service are here http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/ Yes, all this from someone who is getting it all! How understanding of you!