@TuskegeeHeir Here's the thing though, words are nice and cheap vs hiring first the legal people required to do a review on each country EA operates in to figure out which territories they could implement it in (scandinavia and some of the baltic sea states have some interesting ID linking to digital systems that would work as an example), and after that figure out a framework that would work without compromising each country's ID system and data laws, and then develop it and staff it + make sure the system stays on top of changing laws in all territories and making sure the framework can be changed as required in each territory.
I'm sure they already have some of this done just due to data retention laws being fairly different between just the US and EU, but that's probably solely from a marketing/data sale for advertising basis.
Looking at the mess that is core communication platforms as an example. (reddit, twitter, facebook etc)
They're very very slowly moving towards making a choice on moderation vs "free" but even they, who literally make their money on people communicating on their platforms, are incredibly timid about policing that content because the moment they set a standard or take responsibility for policing "bad" content, the amount of new hires required becomes a not-insignificant change to their bottom line, not to mention it opens them to a host of legal challenges in many countries.
(See Australia's recent "twitter is responsible for the content on their platform" kerfuffle and the fallout/debate around that as an example)
For what it's worth, i think with all the scrutiny said communications platforms are under and how quite a few countries are looking at how they can make those platforms liable for their content is going to force through a change with EA long before debates on forums like this will, because the second a country requires communication channels to be moderated, it'll affect games as well as platforms like twitter etc.
The only downside to that bit is that most of the more "progressive" countries when it comes to these things are fairly small, so until some larger countries decide to pull the finger out and EA would really notice it if they didn't comply, i think it will be next to impossible that any real change happens.
Until then most companies will talk a big game, and do the absolute minimum required to claim compliance at the same time.
Again though, for now we have self-policed communities and guilds/clans, and that does count for something.
