Grade D — Sign with caution (score 56/100)
Forces binding arbitration and a class-action waiver, grants itself a perpetual license to your content, and caps liability at the amount you paid.
Forced arbitration, perpetual content license, and liability cap. Few protections.
The parties expressly waive the right to have any Dispute brought, heard, administered, resolved, or arbitrated as a class, collective, coordinated, consolidated, or representative action.
You cannot join or lead any class, collective, or representative action against EA; disputes must be individual.
YOU AND EA EXPRESSLY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND AGREE TO RESOLVE YOUR DISPUTES IN MANDATORY, FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION.
You waive the right to a jury trial and must resolve all disputes through binding individual arbitration.
you grant to EA, its licensors and licensees a non-exclusive, perpetual, transferable, worldwide, sublicensable license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works, publicly perform, publicly display or otherwise transmit and communicate the UGC
Anything you upload is licensed to EA forever, worldwide, and EA can sublicense or transfer it. This license survives termination of the agreement.
YOU MAY RECOVER ONLY DIRECT DAMAGES IN ANY AMOUNT NO GREATER THAN WHAT YOU ACTUALLY PAID FOR THE APPLICABLE EA SERVICE.
If EA harms you, the most you can recover is whatever you paid for that service — effectively $0 for free games.
EA grants you a personal, limited, non-transferable (i.e., not for sharing), revocable and non-exclusive license to use the EA Services to which you have access for your non-commercial use
Games and content are licensed, not sold. EA can revoke your access at any time.
exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or EA Services shall be the federal or state courts that govern San Mateo County, California
Any lawsuit must be filed in San Mateo County, California, no matter where you live.
If we make any material changes to the Agreement, we will notify you to obtain your consent.
For material changes, EA will notify you and ask for your consent before the new terms apply.
You may cancel your EA Account or a subscription to an EA Service at any time by contacting EA's Customer Service Department at help.ea.com.
You can cancel anytime, but only by contacting customer service — no self-serve or one-click cancellation is offered.
Last reviewed 2026-07-26 under rubric v3.5.