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Badie_WiT-a_FAT's avatar
5 years ago

Account Sanctioned and I have Nowhere to go

Around 2 weeks ago or so I found it funny that whenever I tried to queue up for a game of apex legends, it was only telling me there were anywhere from 1-6 other people waiting in the queue as well, never putting me in any games. This is when I contacted Ea about the matter. My first response from them was to try troubleshooting options and see if it’s fixed. Needless to say it wasn’t. My second go around was a UO trace and the Agent even advised me to have my internet service provider open ports to resolve the issue. I knew something was fishy because I could still play Apex on other accounts I had just not that one. After finally opening a 3rd case and telling them I believe it’s an account issue I was told it had been sanctioned. Like the normal scripted reply he said he would escalate it to the TOS team and they would investigate but within 30 minutes I get a reply saying I was involved in cheating and the sanction will not be lifted. I start a separate case to appeal it again it’s denied, this time in a matter of 5 days. The weird thing is though I’m allowed to queue up for games in all modes like I said before, and it even places me and the 5 remaining people in battle royal matches, a 3v3 of sorts. So my question is what exactly is this sanction, and what can I do to get it removed so I can start enjoying the game again. I’ve spent an abundant amount of money on it and hate to see it all thrown away like that.

7 Replies

  • @Badie_WiT-a_FATYShadow ban. So basically all cheaters or exploiters matched with each other or barred from matchmaking

    DDoSing gets you one of those, from recent ban of a popular youtuber. Whatever you did, nothing can be done on the forum. You appealed and got rejected, so I doubt anything could be done.

  • B0n3SawMcSizzla's avatar
    B0n3SawMcSizzla
    5 years ago

    I don't understand why they are mistakenly banning paying customers and not lifting a finger to restore their accounts . It's almost like you could connect the dots with the current state of Apex and think they are actually trying to kill the game off- but that makes no sense. Something else must be going on.

  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
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    5 years ago
    @BaldWraithSimp A shadow ban places a suspected cheater into a game with bots to see if they keep doing it. Then if they keep doing it they get a full ban.
  • E9ine_AC's avatar
    E9ine_AC
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    5 years ago

    @hayhorA shadow ban will actually allow them to queue into a match. But it will never find them a match. It will just keep displaying matchmaking in progress but never actually place them into a lobby. That is the evil thing about shadow bans its more of a taunt. lol

  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
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    5 years ago
    @E9ine_AC Ok so apex shadow bans are actually torture bans. Warzone actually does what I said.
  • E9ine_AC's avatar
    E9ine_AC
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    5 years ago
    @hayhor As far as I know with apex it will never find you a match. I could be wrong and not enough are shadow banned maybe? But ive never seen someone shadow banned in apex be able to join a lobby.
  • Yeah so that’s why I’m confused. It puts me in the match’s with these 5 other people. We get to the character section screen and start the round in the drop ship. But it’s just the squad I’m in and the other squad with 3 people. A literal 3v3 in the battle royal mode. I don’t get it 😥