BUG / FALSE POSITIVE BAN - Outplayed (Overwolf) overlay crash
Hello everyone and EA Community Managers,
I am writing here out of desperation because the standard TOS support system is stuck in an automated loop, sending me the same bot replies over and over without any human review.
On April 25th, my main account (EA ID: Stehello) received a ban for a false positive triggered by a severe technical conflict. I am a veteran player (I play since day one, linking my PS and PC accounts) and I have never used cheats.
What happened:
I was playing while having "Outplayed" (an Overwolf app used strictly to record gameplay clips) running in the background. During the session, the Outplayed overlay encountered a major error, causing my screen to go completely black and making Apex Legends almost crash. I managed to force-close the overlay window, but the background process remained active. I stepped away from the PC for 20 minutes (AFK) and returned to find my account banned.
It is extremely obvious that the Anti-Cheat system flagged the memory conflict or the hooking failure of the Outplayed overlay as unauthorized software.
The TOS team refuses to manually check the process logs of that session. They just click the automated "deny" button. I am asking a Community Manager here to please escalate this specific technical issue to the Anti-Cheat team so they can actually look at the logs. You will see a software crash, not a cheat.
Please help me, losing years of progress and thousands of hours due to a clipping software bug is incredibly unfair.
EA ID: Stehello
Platform: PC
Date of incident: April 25, 2026
Edit: Moved thread from bugs forum to general. This is not a bug. -CM