I don't feel fraud was commited because of us not receiving amnesty for a couple reasons, one we haven't been told we are not gonna get it though I do not believe for a minute that we are, and two in order for it to be fraud and prosecutable, people would have had to give EA more money in order to receive it, and I distinctly remember Parizad answering my own question asking if free accounts qualified for amnesty with a definite YES. I tried to pull up that particular post, but for some reason the search function will not pull up any posts for me that are older than March, and this post was made sometime around mid February. I remember that because I reactivated my second account as free on February 29th after reading that answer from her because I wanted that account to get the locks also in addition to my premium account. If anybody can get the search function to work for them, the evidence will be there. Also I have seen the e-mail in question and I only saw that your account had to be reactivated, I did not see the words 'and upgraded to premium' anywhere, so the only thing that having a free account would have cost anybody in terms of amnesty is the NUMBER of gifts they received, since only one sim per city is allowed on a premium account.
I know people are angry, I am angry too, but I also think it is important to keep that anger in perspective and to understand that we're angry because we won't have our game to play.....a game that has been a big part of some people's lives. That is a huge loss and I can understand that it would trigger a mild grieving process, and anger is part of that clinically speaking, but going on wild goose chases wasting energy filing fraud charges that would in fact be frivolous would only cause more harm to yourselves emotionally, and potentially cost you money if anybody goes as far as hiring a lawyer, and could even result in EA retaliating with charges of false prosecution, so I hope people will take this into consideration when trying to decide how to proceed, and at least wait until you've had a chance to cool off and think rationally and clearly, because it's clear that some people are not.
Don't get me wrong, I have my own anger to deal with when it comes to this, and alot of it is aimed at specific people....but I've gained enough maturity to realize that I can blow off that steam with trusted friends without getting myself all in a tizzy and potentially in RL trouble myself. That's just my perspective though, which I also have sense enough to know doesn't amount to a hill of beans, but I wanted to interject a little bit of logic and reasoning anyway in the hopes that it might get through to at least one person here.
