Ok I was wrong, after many many months, I was working with an Account Advisor or whatever they are called to try and unlink my banned EA account from the Xbox, so that I could link a new EA account to utilize the Gamepass Ultimate with EA Play. Well I was ready to have the account deleted by the account advisor, but I guess he misunderstood what I was asking. Instead, he sent me a password change link, and asked me to login to the account. When I did, I realized he removed the ban or something. I have my old game accounts back (and now I can download free games from EA Play linked with Xbox Game Pass)! Funny because my second Apex account is almost level 500 (my old unbanned account is 500)! So now I have a high level smurf account I guess lol. Anyways, what a pleasant surprise! BTdubs, in order to get into the chat with my savior, I had to use an incognito tab and sign into EA with my Xbox Microsoft account, then I selected Origin > "Delete Account" as the reason for my chat. But when I connected to the chat, I told the rep that "I need to unlink my EA account from my Xbox, and then delete that EA account, so I can associate it with a new one". Anyways that did the trick, weird huh. Nice to finally have my account rightfully restored! Good luck to everyone who doesn't cheat but gets banned, and may the cheaters step on Legos in the middle of the night!