A Plea for Transparency After Three Denied Appeals for an Apex Legends Ban

Thank you for the additional clarification.

So if I understand correctly, submitting an appeal essentially just asks the Terms of Service team to review the same internal records and detection data again. Doesn’t this bring us right back to the core transparency issue I mentioned in my original post?

I completely understand why EA might be cautious about player-submitted evidence, since people could potentially filter or omit information. However, wouldn’t providing more details (such as full hardware specs, installed software lists, driver versions, etc.) actually help the team make a more accurate decision? By cross-referencing player-provided information with their internal logs, they could either confirm a genuine violation or identify a possible false positive.

Additionally, how does the internal team verify that their own detection system is accurate and free of errors? If they only rely on their internal tools without any external validation or player context, how can they be confident the initial flag wasn’t a mistake?

I’m not trying to argue — I just want to understand the process better. Right now it feels like a closed loop with very little visibility for the player, even after multiple appeals.

Any further insight you can share would be appreciated.

kojgtmhmmcqnhzwj​ 
The Terms of Service team relies on what they can look at and verify with their own records and tools, rather than anything specific you might submit.

I definitely understand wanting to provide them as much information as possible. I'm sure you can also see why they wouldn't be able to base a decision off of someone submitting lists of programs or videos of their gameplay, etc. I'm certainly not saying it's the case here, but generally speaking it would be pretty trivial to just remove something before submitting a list, or have other play time outside what's shown in one stream, and so on. 

That's good for you in that there's no missing piece of information you need to find and submit to change the odds of a successful appeal. Appeals are really just requesting they take another look at what they believe caused the initial ban/suspension to verify the actual activity that took place.

Unfortunately, I still received the exact same generic template response as before, with no guidance on what they actually need from me.

To be specific here, they just need the appeal itself as a request to take another look. They do not require other information to investigate, as they'll only be able to rely on what they can verify through their own records anyway.

Thank you for taking the time to reply and for the clarification.

I understand that Community Managers cannot overturn or interfere with decisions made by the Terms of Service team. That’s clear.

However, my main question remains: since the review team is unable to provide specific detection times or program names, what exact information or evidence should I be providing in my appeals to help them conduct a proper review?

In my most recent appeal, I specifically asked what additional details or evidence would be useful for the team to investigate further and rule out a potential false positive. Unfortunately, I still received the exact same generic template response as before, with no guidance on what they actually need from me.

Could you please advise what kind of information would be most helpful for the Terms of Service team? For example, should I list every single piece of software and driver on my PC? Provide screenshots of my installed programs? Submit hardware details? Or something else?

I just want to give them the best possible chance to properly review my case, but without any meaningful direction, it feels like I’m shooting in the dark while receiving identical responses each time.

Any specific guidance you can share would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again.

Hey kojgtmhmmcqnhzwj​,

 I can absolutely understand wanting more details of what specifically triggered our detection systems in place here. The ban reason in your screenshot gives a brief explanation of the type of behavior/activity that would fall under gameplay enhancement, in this case, but I'm afraid we're not able to provide specific program names or exact detection times.

I used to be able to talk to a live agent through chat. Now it seems everything is handled by bots sending templated replies. I genuinely have to ask: is there still a human in EA’s Terms of Service / enforcement team, or has it all been replaced by AI that just repeats the same message no matter what you write?

Just to clarify here, you're absolutely still able to talk to live agents through chat, however that's never been the correct channel to have appeals addressed. Advisors are not able to review or change account bans themselves as any appeals go through our Terms of Service team, so at most they may be able to help create an appeal in situations where people are having trouble getting that process started.

When it comes to the actual appeals, they are handled by (human) members of our Terms of Service team. We do not use AI/automated reviews of account actions. They will absolutely use templates for certain outcomes to make sure the information provided in those situations is consistent with anyone else receiving that particular outcome, but the reviews are done by humans, yes.

An appeal is requesting that our Terms of Service team take another look at the action on the account and the activity leading to that action, so they would be using our internal tools and records to verify whatever took place. In that regard while you're welcome to include as much detail as possible in appeals, it's not necessary to list certain programs or setups to have things looked into, as they'd be verifying the relevant details on their end. 

I see you've submitted multiple appeals already, but if you feel those were incorrect you're welcome to submit another. Each appeal is looked at by a different member of the team to help make sure something isn't just being overlooked by the same individual repeatedly. 

Seriously, the Terms of Service team doesn't care at all about what you write in your appeal. They just send back a templated response anyway.

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