No ‘GGEZ’? Gaming Giant EA Drops Hammer on Player for Popular Gamer Slang
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No ‘GGEZ’? Gaming Giant EA Drops Hammer on Player for Popular Gamer Slang

A shared screenshot shows EA suspended a Battlefield 6 user for a week for using a common post-game slang, preventing the user from playing the game.  Electronic Arts (EA) has censored a user for using common in-game text slang, according to a post from FullA.market on X Oct. 29. A user who was playing EA’s newest entry in its first-person shooter game franchise Battlefield 6 shared a screenshot showing that the video game company suspended his account for replying to an in-game text using the abbreviation “GGEZ.” This common gamer slang is a typically sarcastic remark that means “good game, easy,” and is usually intended as a taunt aimed at losing players.  [The story continues on MRCFreeSpeechAmerica.org] Photo by Tony Webster Creative Commons Attribution 2.0