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Re: EA Account False Ban

Hideouts is well known for assisting pros and recently overturned a false ban for a pro player or at the very least assisted in getting that account restored.

the player that I mentioned that just had his account restored was literally banned for editing the config files to remove ALL visual clutter including his gun, which you just cited as an offense that should result in a permanent ban. So what's the justification for this turning into a temp ban when he was clearly cheating? But I can't even get a REASON for my permanent ban. 

There is a complete double standard by EA/Respawn in regards to who is banned and why. I don't even know why I was banned. Permanent ban, no reason given on an account I have spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars on. I have contacted the TOS team, four times now. They have refused to give an answer. That in itself to me is suspicious and wrong. If you're going to ban someone permanently from something they have invested thousands of dollars into and supported in so many ways, I would think that would warrant some sort of justification at the vary least. To me, this is a false and incorrect ban. I'm here because both the Respawn team and the TOS team has not been of any assistance in any way. I'm here to escalate this to someone that is actually interested in customer service and retention and helping me. You aren't preventing me from playing Apex or any other EA game, to me all that's happened is that you've robbed me of thousands of dollars with no justification, which is flat out wrong. 

5 Replies

  • Asmodeus566's avatar
    Asmodeus566
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @JillxKills 

    Please note no one here on the forum can assist you with your Ban, I really mean no one when I say that.

    The only thing we can do is point you in the direction of who to contact and some advice.

    If you believe you have been hacked take appropriate measures to secure your account and associated E-mail account https://help.ea.com/en-gb/help/account/secure-hacked-ea-account/

    If you believe that a sanction (Suspension/Ban) placed on your account was by mistake you should reach out to the Terms of Service team https://help.ea.com/za/help/account/information-about-locked-or-banned-or-suspended-accounts/

    Re-read the Terms of Service agreement and the Terms of Sale agreement you agreed to, to play this game. https://www.ea.com/legal/user-agreement and https://www.ea.com/legal/terms-of-sale 

  • JillxKills's avatar
    JillxKills
    3 years ago

    I've reached out to TOS. I get the same generic response. I've read the TOS, I didn't violate any of them. Hence my frustration. Obviously NO ONE at EA reads these forums that can help. But I've seen people with actual authority reply to posts when I went searching. So how do I escalate my issue past someone in a call center? 

  • matzesingt's avatar
    matzesingt
    3 years ago
    @JillxKills I can only advice you to just create a new account or quit the game. Don’t expect the TOS team to even read your requests.

    I give you an example:
    This very account here is permabanned for calling someone an idiot. I afterwards went to the tos team to ask if they could unlink my steamaccount from the ea account and their response was a copy paste answer that they looked into the banreason and find me guilty and don’t revoke my ban. Even when I didn’t ask them to unban me in the first place… that’s the funny part 🙂
  • XHelperZ's avatar
    XHelperZ
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @JillxKills 

    The community managers on these forums are not affiliated with the department that manages account bans.

    The places you can contact the ToS team is most likely only via https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/

    Though you can try to contact them on Twitter.

    Generally this article has all the general information you need: https://help.ea.com/en-gb/help/account/information-about-banned-or-suspended-accounts/

    If they really decide it's a permanent decision then it's going to be a permanent decision, nobody on these forums will be able to change that for you.

  • EA_Darko's avatar
    EA_Darko
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Hey all, the only way to speak with our TOS team is through the following steps. 

    Reaching out to our live support teams, be that through twitter or elsewhere will not help you get a faster response as they do not deal with TOS issues. 

    The process to contact our ToS team can be found here: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/account/information-about-banned-or-suspended-accounts/

    1. Click Contact us at the top of any page on EA Help.
    2. Select the game that your account was banned or suspended from. If it’s on your whole EA Account, choose Origin.
    3. Choose your platform.
    4. Select Manage my account, then Banned or suspended account.
    5. Fill out any other details below.
      • For example, if you picked Origin, it might ask you if you are accessing the game through an Origin Access membership.
    6. Click Select contact option.
    7. Sign in to your account that has the ban or suspension, if you aren’t already.

    Darko