If it hasn’t gotten worse for EA already, this just takes it down a whole new level.  According to Neogaf, an EA employee has just been banned from posting on the site.  The unnamed employee was reported posting apologetic messages on the site, which is in a direct violation of the one of the site’s many restrictions.  Neogaf members started noticing a lot of mysterious posts regarding the SimCity debacle, and a lot of people started to get suspicious of the poster.  Someone eventually found out that the anonymous member was indeed an employee of EA.  Neogaf owner, EviLord, released the following statement involving the EA employee.

“We welcome members of the video game industry posting anonymously on NeoGAF. Obviously, anything someone says on the internet attached to their name can have consequences. We welcome you posting openly, whether in an official capacity or otherwise. Or posting semi-openly, where some people may know who you are but your name’s not coming up in Google with everything you say. All of that’s fine.

What we don’t welcome is this kind of behavior: attempting to distort the news aggregate by posting apologetic articles and accompanying them with an editorial slant favoring your company, all without actually disclosing to anyone here that you work for the company in question.”