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E9ine_AC's avatar
4 years ago

The reasons a ban can happen

So I have noticed that some do not know the tos at which they agreed to when creating a account. I am posting this in hopes for some to read the rules and what violations someone can make to be handed a ban. 

  • Violate any law, rule or regulation.
  • Interfere with or disrupt any EA Service or any server or network used to support or provide an EA Service, including any hacking or cracking into an EA Service.
  • Use any software or program that damages, interferes with or disrupts an EA Service or another's computer or property, such as denial of service attacks, spamming, hacking, or uploading computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, cancelbots, spyware, corrupted files and time bombs.
  • Interfere with or disrupt another player's use of an EA Service. This includes disrupting the normal flow of game play, chat or dialogue within an EA Service by, for example, using vulgar or harassing language, being abusive, excessive shouting (all caps), spamming, flooding or hitting the return key repeatedly.
  • Harass, threaten, bully, embarrass, spam or do anything else to another player that is unwanted, such as repeatedly sending unwanted messages or making personal attacks or statements about race, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, etc. Hate speech is not tolerated.
  • Contribute UGC or organize or participate in any activity, group or guild that is inappropriate, abusive, harassing, profane, threatening, hateful, offensive, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringing, invades another's privacy, or is otherwise reasonably objectionable.
  • Publish, post, upload or distribute UGC or content that is illegal or that you don't have permission to freely distribute.
  • Publish, post, upload or distribute any content, such as a topic, name, screen name, avatar, persona, or other material or information, that EA (acting reasonably and objectively) determines is inappropriate, abusive, hateful, harassing, profane, defamatory, threatening, obscene, sexually explicit, infringing, privacy-invasive, vulgar, offensive, indecent or unlawful.
  • Post a message for any purpose other than personal communication. Prohibited messages include advertising, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes and other types of solicitation or commercial activities.
  • Impersonate another person or falsely imply that you are an EA employee or representative.
  • Improperly use in-game support or complaint buttons or make false reports to EA staff.
  • Attempt to obtain, or phish for, a password, account information, or other private information from anyone else on EA Services.
  • Make use of any payment methods to access or purchase EA Services for fraudulent purposes, without permission of the authorized owner, or otherwise concerning a criminal offence or other unlawful activity.
  • Use any robot, spider or other automated device or process to access EA Services for any purpose such as scraping data or copying material.
  • Modify any file or any other part of the EA Service that EA does not specifically authorize you to modify.
  • Use or distribute unauthorized software programs or tools (such as "auto", "macro", hack or cheat software), or use exploits, bugs or problems in an EA Service to gain unfair advantage.
  • Engage or assist in cheating or other anticompetitive behavior (such as boosting, collusion, and match or matchmaking manipulation).
  • Use or distribute counterfeit software or EA Content, including EA Virtual Currency.
  • Attempt to use an EA Service on or through any service that is not controlled or authorized by EA.
  • Sell, buy, trade or otherwise transfer or offer to transfer your EA Account, any personal access to EA Services, or any EA Content associated with your EA Account, including EA Virtual Currency and other Entitlements, either within an EA Service or on a third-party website, or in connection with any out-of-game transaction, unless expressly authorized by EA.
  • Use an EA Service in a country in which EA is prohibited from offering such services under applicable export control laws.
  • If an EA Service requires you to create a "username" or a "persona" to represent yourself in-game and online, you should not use your real name and may not use a username or persona that is used by someone else or that EA determines is vulgar or offensive or violates someone else's rights.
  • Engage in any other activity that significantly disturbs the peaceful, fair and respectful gaming environment of an EA Service.
  • Use information about users publicly available in any EA Service (e.g. on a leaderboard) for any purpose unrelated to the Service, including to attempt to identify such users in the real world.
  • Promote, encourage or take part in any prohibited activity described above.

If you or someone using your EA Account violates these rules and fails to remedy this violation after a warning, EA may take action against you, including revoking access to certain or all EA Services, Content or Entitlements, or terminating your EA Account as described in Section 8. In case of severe violations, EA may take these actions without issuing a prior warning. Some examples of severe violations include, but are not limited to: promoting, encouraging or engaging in hacking, selling EA accounts or entitlements (including virtual currencies and items) without EA’s permission, extreme harassment, or threatening illegal activities. When practical, EA will notify you of the action it will take in response to violations of these rules or breach of this Agreement.

4 Replies

  • @E9ine_AC And yet you can do none of the above, and get banned as well, and you're guilty 🙂 I did nothing, wasn't good at the game, and got banned. And each appeal of mine as been denied. It sucks, it's there game, so the best I can state is don't spend any money if you don't want to have it lost.
    I'll keep appeal the ban, and am scared to create another new account, since I still don't know why they banned me, and the last couple appeals have been stop asking - we won't unperma ban ya. Be careful, don't even plug in anything like a PS4 controller, or if you end up in a game that is running slow. Quickly quit to avoid being seen as a person on it.
    I.e. if you end up in a broken server, they might just ban you thinking you caused it. Especially if it happens more then 2x in a month.

    Best bet - only join a team with 1 or 2 other people you know. Don't play randoms. If you get unlucky you can get banned for doing nothing.

    good luck!
  • @E9ine_AC this is just ridiculous, getting banned for hate speech is so dumb!! do u check mic harassments ? guess not!! i did respond to people that did harassement/hate speech only they did it vocaly & i write. So that's a total *!!!
  • E9ine_AC's avatar
    E9ine_AC
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @SnakeN01 All can be seen. The game can already relay to you chat to text. Which means they would have logs of this and can see in game coms and typed messages. The issue is all parties need reported. When you are reported the only thing looked at is what you had said. Had you reported them they would of seen the same treatment. Or you did report and they met the same fate.

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