I get that, but they do exist for a reason, they don't think of these kind of things on a whim so there is a reason for them to exist.
Do keep in mind that players are warned about the fact that they won't be able to unlink their account until a certain date as well, this is usually displayed at the bottom of the message.
Here's an image of how it would look like when unlinking.
It's of course important for players to be able to manage their accounts, but players are notified of what would happen if they were to do something.
If players confirm something without reading what it entails, to be direct, it would be their fault, and it would be a bit unfair to shift the blame on EA.
I do agree that EA support isn't all too great, some other game companies definitely have better support (at least from what I've seen)
But I don't think it's a bad thing that EA is not compromising on account security.
This is the dumbest thing ive ever heard. EA **bleep**ed up bye linking a random XBOX account that's not even mine and now i cant unlink it so I'm just stuck. These are my accounts that i pay for and EA is telling me what i can and can not do. That's insane.!
First off, in order to link an account, nominally the account holder has to do this EA does not randomly link accounts. However if your account was compromised (hacked) then the hacker could link that account etc and effectively keep you out. There is a recovery process but it is not simple. Or if you let someone use the account and they linked it to an Xbox (that's on you).
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/
You will need to be able to prove ownership to recover the account and afterwards you will need to submit a help ticket to unlink the "Randomly" linked account.
Secondly the last post here is 2 years ago:
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