If you buy games on Origin, but don't play them for a couple years, EA can cancel your account.

Or so says their terms of service anyway, apparently.

From the actual EA Terms of Service (as presented in the above link as well):

"If you have not used your Entitlements or Account for twenty four (24) months or more and your Account has associated Entitlements, your Entitlements will expire and your Account may be cancelled for non-use."

Just to get around the legalese, Entitlements, as defined by EA TOS, "are licensed rights granted, awarded, provided and/or purchased by you to access and/or use online or off-line elements or features of EA Services and/or products. Entitlements include but are not limited to paid and free downloadable content, unlockable content, digital and/or virtual assets, rights of use tied to unlock keys or codes, serial codes and/or online authentication of any kind, in-game achievements and virtual or fictional currency not otherwise governed by a Digital Services Agreement." So yeah, it covers pretty much anything you buy on their service.

I'll just copy/paste what I said to owsf2000 in IRC when he posted a link to this:
<Mord> even if I were into the digital garbage more, this would be enough to make me vomit over the service rather than use it.
<Mord> I have hundreds of games. Literally. Not figuratively. that I've owned for years without playing them.
<Mord> if they were purchased on EA, they would have been deleted long ago. (2 year time frame)
<Kane_Magus> It's like EA is actively *trying* to come up with the shittiest download service possible.

Yeah, I'd be in the same boat as well, what with owning more than a few games. I mean even just counting PC games alone, I too have literally hundreds.

And a guy I work with had completely forgotten that he'd had a Steam account since around the time that Orange Box was released (2007) or before, up until Portal 2 was released (2011) and he wanted one to sync with his PS3 version. Yet, once he recovered the password for his Steam account, he was able to log in and access his stuff just fine. Had he been on Origin, however, he'd have likely found that he just didn't have an account at all anymore, if the above is true.

"6 Progressive Parenting Fads You Won't Believe Are Legal"

What is this I don't even

I think the list should be inverted though, since the worst two are at the bottom of the list. A baby cage that hangs out of a window? Baby "yoga" that involves swinging it around your head by its ankles? What. The others aren't even all that bad really, if they're bad at all. Yeah, they might be a bit weird maybe, but not life-threatening. Well, the lotus birth thing is potentially life-threatening if infection sets in, I guess, but still. I wouldn't say they should be illegal. None of them are as flat out "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!!" as the baby cages or the baby yoga. Even the baby cages aren't something that should be flat out illegal, just something that is a rather poorly thought out idea.

No, the baby yoga thing is the worst of all, I think. I watched the associated video despite their warning not to do so. So yeah, I have to agree with Cracked, that video is pretty scary and horrible. I mean it would be one thing to just have a baby laying there and moving its arms and legs around in a pantomime of simple yoga poses or something, but this is something else entirely. The still images right there in plain view on the page are bad enough. You really don't need to see it in motion. >_>;

What in the blue *hell*, Blizzard? ಠ_ಠ @Diablo

Seriously, what kind of drugs are you smoking? I knew it would only be a matter of time before this kind of asinine crap hit a game I actually cared about (or at least used to care about). *weary sigh*

Well, guess I won't be getting Diablo III after all. Too bad. This is incredibly disappointing because the original Diablo was pretty cool, and Diablo II was a day one purchase for me. I was fully expecting Diablo III would also be a day one purchase as well, but now it's not going to be a purchase at all. Unless they wise up and reverse track on this retarded mess.

How much of this bullshit is Blizzard versus how much of it is Activision, I wonder.