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Mr_WeaselBoi's avatar
4 years ago

Account banned for a game tag named after movie character!

So, I was using my gametag for almost 1 year. Gametag was Gayl0rd_Focker. Yes, the guy from the movies (Ben Stiller as Greg Gaylord Focker in movie Meet the Fockers).
As I said, I had that same gametag for almost 1 year and all of a sudden, clever EA decides to ban my account for 7 days without any warning. Why no one sent me a warning to change my name? Why did my gametag pass the "restrictions" and "security checks" at the same start when creating my gametag? I have had that gametag for such a long time and EA just decided to ban me for "HATE SPEECH". Even though I asked via 4,5 emails to unban me and let me change my gametag, I said it's not a problem , I'll change it, I got answer from EA saying they won't unban me no matter what. How is it possible to ban someone for using name of a guy from movies? How can a name be hate speech? What is hateful about that? What if I had a gametag "JOHN RAMBO". Would it still be hate speech? No, because there is no word GAY in it. But when EA spreads trans,gay and bisexual agenda all over Apex Legends by putting some badges and things like that, literally shoves gay agenda down people throats, what is that called? NORMAL? Yea right, what a hypocrite company you are, EA!

P.S. What about gametag I've attached? "CUT THROAT". I'd say that right there is hate speech and disturbing gametag.

And just to mention, I have almost 600 hours of Apex Legends and close to 200 hours of Battlefield 1, and a lot of hours in Battlefield 4, never got banned anywhere for anything.

8 Replies

  • Technically you aren't wrong, but come on now . .  you knew you were being a bit cheeky with the username.  You had a good innings, now you have to find the next borderline name to use wont you?

    I do think a warning and ultimatum to change the name should have been issued first though, I've seen blatantly offensive names before that deserved instantly banning though.

  • @PiabeticI really had no bad intetions with that gametag. I just like the name and the movie because it's so funny. Best thing about it is that like 100 people in-game said to me things like "woow dude, cool nickname" and things like that.
    Yes, if only EA warned me, if they said anything, atleast a command like: " Change your gametag or we will ban you", I would do it.
    What's your comment on gametag i've attached? "CUT THROAT"? It's definitely more disturbing than mine...

  • Piabetic's avatar
    Piabetic
    4 years ago

    I don't know if I really find CutThroat offensive either.  The name you had wasn't offensive to me personally, It will be just because it had the word Gay in it.  Really in some ways automatically assuming the word "gay" is being used negatively could be offensive to some right? Some people will be proud to be gay, and nothing wrong with that.

    Gaylord might be a legitimate name, but the popular use of that word has long since taken on an offensive intent which the film makers knew of course, because otherwise his name wouldn't have been funny right?

    I think you have been a little hard done by, but at least its only a 7 day ban.

  • I spoke to a team mate I had in a random game a little while back about his name, didn't report him but I was curious about how he got away with it and for how long.  His name had a certain 4 letter word beginning with C in it followed by something like "punisher" or similar.  He said he had it since he started playing ages ago.  Figure that one out!

  • @PiabeticWell, CutThroat is a bit disturbing even to me... Too agressive and ugly to read, but the thing is that guy probably isn't banned but I am lol.
    Yes, Gaylord might be a legitimate name. Word "gay" is offensive to EA but they put lgbtq badges and literally telling they are proud of lgbtq people. What is offensive in word "gay" then? I mean, that's professional terminology for a person who is appealed to the same gender...

    Yea, only 7 day ban which wasn't earned at all :/

  • EA_Kent's avatar
    EA_Kent
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    4 years ago

    Hey folks,

    I'm locking this thread before it gets off the rails. 

    Account bans aren't something we can address here on Answers HQ. It would be best to get in touch with the Terms of Service team. They'll review your account and determine if the ban can be overturned. 


    For more information on how to set up a case with them check out the EA Help website

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