A good strategy for dealing with EA might be to use a separate card (disposable prepaid debit cards?) for each game order, minimizing the risk of collateral damage if you're banned because of a chargeback. Of course, if they find out you're using multiple accounts, they will ban all of them anyway.

It would be nice if we didn't have to treat game companies as adversaries like this.

if someone is determined to treat you as an adversary, it doesn't really make much sense to behave as though they aren't one.

"Someone" == EA's entire target market? If this is really the logic they are abiding by, perhaps their problems are even worse than we thought.

no, i meant that since the game companies are already treating us as adversaries, the question of us not treating them likewise does not even arise.

ea are treating their entire target market as adversaries; game companies have been doing that for years.

I am all for getting your money back, whether it is a refund or chargeback/whatever via the bank. But I feel as though if it is some sort of chargeback that your account SHOULD be banned as you don't want the game any more.