EA GAMES GUIDELINES

THE GOLDEN RULES DIRECTLY FROM EA GAMES BIOWARE TEAM

  1. No commercial usage. We’d love for your fan content to be created by fans, for fans. Therefore, you cannot do anything with our games for any commercial purpose, unless explicitly permitted otherwise below (e.g. see section 3 about videos and streams). We’re happy for you to accept reasonable donations in connection with your fan content, but you’re not allowed to make people pay for it or have it behind any sort of paywall (e.g. don’t make content only available to paid subscribers).

  2. Make it clearly ‘unofficial’. Please make sure your fan content clearly displays the following (or similar) wording in a sensible and obvious location: “This is an unofficial fan work and is not approved/endorsed by EA Games/BioWare”. Please don’t do or say anything which could make anyone think we endorse or support you. Of course, if we feel your fan content is so awesome that we want to endorse or approve your work then we’ll let you know! Remember - the fan content you make is your responsibility.

  3. Don’t put it in other games/products. Your fan content should stand on its own – it should not be incorporated into a third-party game or product (except as we explain below).

  4. Don’t hurt us or others. Please be respectful to other players, fans and our games! Don’t create, do or say anything regarding our games that is racist, xenophobic, sexist, defamatory, illegal or offensive, or anything that could harm EA Games or BioWare, its games, users or staff. Also, please don’t infringe the rights of other people (e.g. creators of other games, movies, books, TV shows etc.). This is also relevant for any real-life brands and people included in our games – you’re only allowed to use those brands or images of those people if they allow you to do so and provided you don’t harm them in any way! Basically, when making fan content, make sure you’ve got permission from all the people concerned (which might be people other than us).

  5. Follow the legal rules. These guidelines are our informal guidance to you, but the full legal rules are our EA Games https://www.ea.com/legal/user-agreement and End User License Agreements (EULAs) for Dragon Age Origins "https://store.steampowered.com/eula/eula_47810" If there’s any conflict between these guidelines and those documents, then those documents win.