Without getting into the comments you bring up about EA (for now), I just wanted to address the post you made that got you banned. Because I read it before, as we discussed it among the mods.

In that comment you're depicting people in a negative way, right? Calling them out for being hypocrites. (Saying they don't care about AAA, and then pre-ordering AAA games when they get them on their system.)
Obviously you know that no one likes being called a hypocrite, so the comment is meant to strike a nerve.

Okay. That in itself is not a problem. If someone deserves to be criticized or called out for something, then it's ok to do it in a constructive manner. And the way you did it could have been constructive, if you had for example said "Hiku and CGI-Quality said they had no interest in Halo Infinite. But now that it's coming to PS5, they pre-ordered it."

The problem is that you said "Nintendo fans". That means every Nintendo fan has a reason to be bothered by it, as intended. Even if they feel like it doesn't apply to them, they may feel that they/not many/ no one here said the thing you claimed. And that it's an unfair characterization of them.

If one Sony fan says something stupid, should people go "Sony fans be like.."?
No, they should specify that person when writing the comment.

If someone asks you "Who are you referring to?" the answer is commonly "I don't remember. Someone... on some other site that you can't verify, that has nothing to do with VGC."
But the only people reading your comments, and potentially being bothered by them (as intended) are VGC users.

That's why it's important when making negative comments designed to annoy or attack people, to make it clear if you are referring to someone who would be reading them or not.
Basically, avoid generalizations under those circumstances.

I haven't read those EA comments yet. I'll take a look later. But know that no one has reported any of those EA comments to us. So none of the mods may have even seen them. Let alone determined that there's a problem with them.
We did however receive reports (I forget if it was one, or several) for your post, which is how it was brought to our attention.

As for your first question, it could be considered a similar circumstance if the aim of that comment is still to get under the skin of Nintendo fans.
But of course, if you provide links to where Nintendo said that to support your claim, then there should be no problem. Then it's fair to call them out for it.

I suppose the answer to the second question would be similar. It comes down to the intent of the comment. If someone with no history of stirring the pot with large groups of people said that, the mod team would probably not assume that there was nefarious intent behind it.
But if someone with a history of baiting/instigating large groups says it, then we may be less inclined to believe their good intentions.

But regarding EA, the fact that none of those posts were reported, or any EA related posts that I can recall since becoming a moderator, kind of paints a picture of what we consider targeting a large group. If it's something that no one to our knowledge is bothered by, then it's also not a problem for us here, is it?

I think these two responses highlight part of the issue you’re facing. One of them is a typical sarcastic post from someone known to make those kinds of things (I’ll be fair to you one the side of being unaware, however) and the other makes a point that you missed. There was also COKTOE who noted the big three versus 3rd party companies (and he’s spot on). A post about MS/Nintendo/Sony is held to a different standard (given they’re manufacturers and not simply a dev/pub).

Also, yes, your history plays a major role, because it stamps where you went wrong and follows you around the site. What someone says about EA doesn’t change what you did specifically. There’s also more to your post than an attack on Nintendo.

Like I said earlier, I get that it can be frustrating, but you have to accept your part in it.

You're as patronising and rude as usual and might prove my point that the ones who work for this site are not a serious sort.

Is this a real reply? Is this sort of joke tolerated as a reply to my questions or just to try to make me angry?

If there's a point to be make, perhaps you being rude makes the point that some have more right to be rude here than others.