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14 days ago
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My game account was mistakenly banned, but EA ignored it.

My game account has been banned. I have contacted customer service, but it has not been unlocked yet. The permissions of the manual customer service are still insufficient, and she believes that my account should be unblocked. I put in a lot of effort to unban my account and had lengthy conversations with clients, which proves that I will not do anything against the rules due to the risk of cheating. I have described the entire process of my account being banned, but I still cannot lift it. I request your other teams to discuss together whether my account should be unbanned, and even notify your supervisor. I'm not maliciously pursuing it, it's just because I was misunderstood. You need to take my situation seriously, not just because of my account. I'm sure there will be many accounts mistakenly banned for the same reason. I will attach my chat records to customer service, and the simplest way is to retrieve my game videos. After reading it once, you will fully understand. However, I don't have the habit of recording games, so I request you to view the game video

This is the entire process of my account being banned

I will be playing games regularly in China on January 16, 2025, and using a network accelerator as usual. This is a common way of playing games in Chinese Mainland. In the first game, I played in mixed mode. After entering, I found that the people in the game were almost like robots, standing still. My first idea was to quit the game, but I found that there is a 2-minute penalty after quitting the game. I choose to continue the game. In order to complete the game as soon as possible, I can only choose the fastest way. I have killed many people. I want you to check the data of this game. You will definitely notice that the data is very strange. I killed someone myself throughout the entire game. I thought these people were official because they were just shooting in chaos, acting like robots, standing still. I don't know how you judge, I can only try my best to describe the actual situation. I think the response you gave me was unfair. You should have already looked at everyone's data in the entire game and found that all the points were earned by me alone. After the ban, I found many of these on Chinese social media. They are used for AFK upgrades, and I am the only regular player

I have attached my complete chat history to the customer service office, and she supports me in speaking out on the forum.

I believe many players have had the same experience as me. The customer service representative stated that posting on the forum with sufficient views and votes will attract the attention of executives, so I can speak up for us. Therefore, please vote for me.

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  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
    7 days ago

    This thread is getting way off track, folks.

     
    If you feel an action was placed on your account incorrectly, please create an appeal with these steps so our Terms of Service team can take another look.
     
    This is not something we're able to assist with on the forums, thread locked.

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  • @2572764768 Unfortunately any ban-related issue cannot be handled on the forums as this can only be looked into by the EA TOS Team.

    For more information about account locks, bans, and suspensions, (and where you can contact the EA TOS Team), click here.

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    2572764768
    13 days ago
    @Midnight9746  午夜9746 But I have used all the methods I know, and the problem still hasn't been solved, which is very bad for me. If I were a cheating player, I wouldn't be so persistent in solving the problem.
  • @2572764768 

    Did you play from a gaming cafe/public computer, which I know is quite common in China? I personally would NEVER log in to my main account from a public computer since EA rightfully is banning accounts that play from a flagged CPU/GPU/Motherboard, i.e HWID banning. This is unfortunate for unaware people who get banned but necessary in a free2play pvp.

  • I have a similar experience.
    I didn't do anything that violated the terms and conditions, I was playing perfectly normally and my account was banned.

    But they just kept repeating like a bot, “We investigated, but the result won't be reversed” and the ban was never lifted.

    Only a few well-known streamers and pro-gamers would restore the accounts they had accidentally banned, and they would only perform the performance that they had investigated and done their job properly.

    They don't care about the general players who supposedly pay the most for their games.
    They probably think they can get more money by making people re-purchase the same skins, etc.

    So they have to give up now.

    To avoid wasting your precious life time, and to avoid wasting your nerves by this stupid game and company, let's not get involved with this company and their games anymore, which are nothing but this kind of stupidity.
    The only protest we can make is to stop being involved with this joke of a company and this joke of a game and send them to their graves and bury them in the past.

    We, the users, should get out of this game and spend our time and money on other more interesting and meaningful things.

    Whatever we expect from EA/Respawn anymore, we will be betrayed and disappointed.

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    2572764768
    8 days ago
    @Fake_MRVNs I have also noticed that many people have been mistakenly banned, but EA doesn't care, which is why their user base is decreasing. When I was banned and my appeal was not approved, I suddenly understood their group of people.
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    2572764768
    8 days ago
    @NerfMyAimPlz No, I just used my personal computer. In China, due to EA's many erroneous bans, many people come to the studio to purchase finished accounts. In mixed mode, sometimes we encounter accounts that upgrade with bots on hold, but EA doesn't stop them. I killed them and was judged as cheating by EA. Now I want to know if there is a good way to check the video of my game. If there is, the problem will be better solved
  • Zulkiers's avatar
    Zulkiers
    7 days ago
    @2572764768
    Perhaps it's the fact you shot the bots that got you banned. False kills essentially.
    There are a few who use bot servers as gateways to boost the account they are playing. Easy way to get 300m+ snipes and 30ks etc. Flawless 2 Chamionships. Kill Leader and Champion Win. All because the foes were just bots.
    They don't need to be able to link you to the bots, as in most cases it's untraceable. The mere fact you shot the bots and got so many kills is all the evidence they need.
    If I were in your scenario, I probably would have let the ring go down to final ring and then erased the remnants in the final ring. Effectively protesting the bots. Let the map kill them. Don't get absurd stats that would get me targeted for ban. That or take the 2 minute penalty until I find a match that actually has players.
    If that's only BR, then play Mixtape. Avoid the ban bots and find players.

    Personally, if I were head of EA, I'd deny access outside NA, except maybe in Europe. Purely for security reasons. Depending on network security in SA, might allow that too.
  • Whats really messed up is that EA often leave out the reason for the ban in the email they send. Seems like common practice to at least clarify what crime you have been convicted of hrmm. Must be a conscious decision from EA to leave it out and not some technical limitation of the banning system since it obviously is 100% clear what crime the account got banned for.

  • @Zulkiers
    I saw you say “don't take the fun away from other players” in a previous topic somewhere, but why do you yourself say things that encourage other players to take the fun away from others, such as making it inaccessible except to NA players?
    Don't you realize that your stance of not wanting to take away your own enjoyment but approving of taking away the enjoyment of others who have nothing to do with you is a very self-centered and selfish argument?

    The problem of cheaters is serious, but to ban access from outside NA for security reasons is as outrageous as saying that you want to burn down the house because it is infested with cockroaches.

    If you want to insist that people should not be deprived of their enjoyment of something that is relevant to their enjoyment, you should never say that it should be inaccessible to non-NAs, even if it is for security reasons.

    What should really be done against cheats is to update security, update to the latest game engines, etc. to make it more difficult to use or develop cheats, not to restrict access or limit play areas.

  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
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    7 days ago

    This thread is getting way off track, folks.

     
    If you feel an action was placed on your account incorrectly, please create an appeal with these steps so our Terms of Service team can take another look.
     
    This is not something we're able to assist with on the forums, thread locked.

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