Now they are even worse because they admitted that there was a problem. And like any good drunk or drug addict, they must now count days that they are sober or clean from a recent abuse of power.
The thread was started a little over a month ago, and they have just gotten around to fixing Origin so that banned accounts can play their legally purchased "licenses" offline today. That still doesn't fix the problem of games that have DRM that require online connectivity like some games on Steam, which will be ultimately EA's next DRM endevor just like it was Capcom's.
