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Dear Fellow Co-Players of F1 mobile Racing!

EA Sports has taken the unjust and arbitrary decision to close down Our Game by 24th of May.

Many complained individually but nothing happened.

So we The Players now decided to take action.
I put together a draft of a Complaint intended to be delivered to EA Sports so they: a) either change their decision and keep the game running as before (updates, events etc.) or b) give us back all our money to the last penny spent.

Please read it and let me know on it. If you have remarks etc. Also make sure you, too, sign The Complaint.



A. INTRODUCTION

EA SPORTS, an Internet and Platforms Gaming Construction company, for about two years now is the new owner of F1 mobile racing, a mobile racing game on Androids and IOS (hereinafter called The Game).

By its decision to, arbitrarily and without sound reason, shut down The Game, EA Sports violates Commercial laws and commits fraud against 35,000,000 players who have been playing this game and who are now helpless against EA’s unjustified decision.

B. IMPORTANT DATA

1. EA Sports bought The Game from CodeMasters (? IS THIS CORRECT?)
in …… (I NEED A DATE HERE)

2. Till then The Game had some technical issues but was running ok and every year we got updates and the players were happy overall.

2. After a couple of years after buying The Game, that is around January 2024 (AGAIN IS THIS AN ACCURATE DATE?) all of a sudden and with no due reason EA Sports announces to us through The Game that it has taken the “difficult decision” to shut down the game. See Attached photo #1, their own announcement in The Game.

3. Per EA’s own allegation, see Attached photo #2, there are 35,000,000 who play The Game. This is a huge Market.

4. We, the players, say Market as we are not just players, WE ARE CUSTOMERS, so this is not “just a game” but a business (commercial) enterprise and thus it falls under and follows ALL COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS applying globally and locally for each country, thus this Complaint which we are determined to follow through even with legal actions if needed as it is explained further on.

5. Further more, we the players have sound reasons to believe that EA Sports’ decision violates in many aspects all commercial laws around the globe and in every country and for this it is unethical and unprofessional, as:

5a. No matter how much, we the Players, wrote to EA individually, we never got a good and REASONABLE response Why EA is shutting down The Game.

5b. More importantly we have sound reasons to believe that EA has amassed millions from The Game in the last couple of years that they own The Game as, to give you an example from a short survey we recently did, just 2 out of the 35 million players (namely Mr. Alan Whelan and Mr. Theo Sismanides) have paid close to 5,000 euro (!!!) for the last 5 years. All those records are available through our Apple Store Financial History. See Attached Photos #3 as an example.

5c. Last but not least, we the Players, have strong reasons to believe that EA Sports intentionally bought The Game to SHUT DOWN COMPETITION in a sneaky and thus illegal manner.

Let us explain: EA Sports owns and runs, for many years, even before they bought The Game, a competitive to The Game, racing application called Real Racing.

As EA sports is closing down The Game it continuously, annoyingly and unethically PROMOTES their game, Real Racing version 3 (hereinafter called RR3) to all of us, the dedicated Players of The Game. See attached photo #4.

This attitude is not just unethical but shows the real intentions of EA Sports in essence to hijack The Game and take all of Its players for RR3 by shutting down the competition by The Game which they now own. They wanted to create a monopoly for RR3. That was their intention in buying The Game, not to SERVE THE CUSTOMERS AND CONDUCT FAIR BUSINESS WITH THEM.

To clarify things (as this becomes a Legal Matter for us now) we are NOT JUST “players”.

We are THE CUSTOMERS to put it in the correct commercial wording as “The Game” in essence is a Commercial Transaction performed through the Internet between an X company, in this case EA sports, and “a player”, a person who agrees to participate and who can pay money or invest time for the game, who then becomes The Customer.

And we The Customers have paid our good money for years and have devoted so much time and effort and dedication for years in The Game, that we reckon that we have rights per any commercial law as explained above that are being violated by EA Sports’ decision to shut down The Game.

C. CONCLUSION

So we The Customers have decided to take any action, even resort to Legal if needed, to protect our rights not just for The Game but for all games and such digital transactions which more and more take place on the Internet and seek justice against the violations of huge digital corporations and their arbitrary, unsound and unjust decisions as in the case of EA sports and The Game, the F1 mobile racing game.

The above is true

Signatures of Customers follow.

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F1 Mobile Racing Players Association (FMRPA) - Official Facebook Group

Alan Whelan
Theo Sismanides


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