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SavageKritz's avatar
4 years ago

HWID ban

Ok, I guess it's time for me to vent because this is getting out of hand.!! My account got banned and says it was cheating.. first iof all I've never cheated in apex let alone any other game!! Trust me my low kd is a fact I didn't cheat! Anyways, I tried to get my account back and they keep saying they did the right thing blah blah blah I keep getting the same exact reply like they didn't even look into my case or profile.. anyways I'm over the lack of EA looking into the case so now I try to make a new account to just get back and play with friends and the accounts keep getting banned right away.. sometimes in the training area because it's a new account and you have to do that other times it let's me play a game or 2 and when I log back on later it's banned.. this is just crazy I didn't cheat I never cheated and you won't give me my acvount back.. now I can't even make a new account if I wanted to.. how about EA actually does some real work and go watch a few streamers playing apex and investigate them instead of the people that don't cheat.. you can easily tell who cheats on twitch but hey they won't get banned because they have 5k+ views so they get a free pass.. the amount of false bans I've read about is absolutely crazy! all EA does is take your money and kick you to the curb they don't care about their players what so ever... I remember in the beginning when you qued for a match it was almost instant que.. and now people wait up to 5-10 minutes to get a match.. thats why your game is dieing, you guys don't help your community of players that were falsely banned.. I know for a fact you guys don't even look into the case because everyone's reply is the same and that's why it goes into the spam folders.. because that's what it is.. just spam! But they have the audacity to send you emails about new seasons even tho that account was banned.. shame on you EA!  

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  • @RevMainPls How? I've tried removing all origin stuff and ea stuff deleting windows and downloading it again with a new account and still have the ban problem... id love to know how.. if you dont wanna type it out on this forum you can direct msg me email or whatever you're comfortable with
  • @RevMainPlsOne thing I’m hesitant about is buying ‘’used hardware’’ from ebay or some other site because I’m assuming if someone like Savage was to sell their used hardware with a Hwid ban and then I bought it wouldn’t that get my account banned too? I know this is alittle off topic but im just curious 

  • Asmodeus566's avatar
    Asmodeus566
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @TheApexLegendNub 

    I would not buy used hardware.

    PS4, X-Box, Switch, or PC there are enough people that have claimed here on the forum that they bought a computer etc from a friend or someone else and that they cant play Apex or any other EA games because the account is insta banned after installing and starting the game. So yeah that would be an issue and more then likely the person that bought the hardware is probably out the money as well because private sellers did not mention the fact and the equipment was sold as in current condition.

  • RevMainPls's avatar
    RevMainPls
    4 years ago
    @TheApexLegendNub Hey man

    Well usually HWID bans do flag the Motherboard/network macadress or/and your hdd/ssd.
    So everything else is pretty save to buy used without having to worry about it.
    But it depends on the Anticheat software, theoreticly they could ban every component. You can for example change the UUID and Serial of your motherboard, you can change the VolumeID´s of your harddisks and you could also change the macadress of your network adapter.
    Wich i recommend you doing if you think of buying for example a used motherboard. Better save than sorry
  • @RevMainPls True better to be safe than sorry, I just know I will need to get a new graphics card eventually and with the shortage and price gauging I sure as hell won’t be buying anything new lol
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