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2 years ago

Account has been banned due to corrupt data

Hello, 
I have been playing Apex Legends since the beginning seasons and I had 2 origin accounts before that I used to play. I connected one of my main account to my steam and it was working fine. I played for more than 200hours in steam with my main account and yesterday something unsual happened in steam when I tried to play Apex Legends. It said that I need to register to EA account in order to play while I was in-game. I had always connected my main account to steam but still yesterday that register/login came. I tried using my main ea account but it said someone already linked this account to the steam.(it was a chinese or something name which I knew from the EA support members that it has been connected to that chinese account for more than 2 years which I don't know how it happened. Then I tried to use my other account that i mentioned in the start. And it said that there is no account assigned to that email and it said I am creating new account which I was shocked. But still I did that and saw new account with new game data. Then I tried to play few games and then I tried connecting again to my main account. Then with EA support I was told to unlink the account which is not mine and try connecting the main account there which I did but it said that I need to wait for 6months. As my steam account was connected to the new ea account that has already been there in my origin account it was unable to unlink from that new id for 6 months and from my main ea account I unlinked the unknown chinese steam account from there and it said to link I need to wait for 6 months. So I installed EA app to see if my progress are still there. There upon playing it for the first time I was asked to sync data either from my local save or cloud save which was of 2022(1year back). I was confused what to do as I have connected my new ea account to my steam account and if I thought that was the data being saved on the local storage. As I wasn't able to play with my main EA/ apex account for 6hours when I was asked to sync. And it was saying to sync the data from local storage of 1hour ago at that time which was when I played with my new account. So I thought that might overwrite my apex data and I asked EA support but they responded that it might get overwrite by the new apex data so I clicked cloud save to sync and now I am 64 level. I don't have any skins or heirloom and not even unlocked any skins. But my latest main account had 450+ level and I had wraith heirloom with a lot of golden skins and other good stuffs. What should I do now ? I want genuine help from the your team please. It's not an issue with games like CSGO but what is wrong with apex about the sync and stuff. What happens when someone with a lot of good stuffs does similar cloud sync or something and gets back to lvl 5 or something after playing the game. We would never want to paly again or come back again. Please I need genuine help. I have been contacing EA support and it's been more than 12 hours I am trying everything to solve the issue by searching on internet and stuff but I don't know what to do now. I have attached my steam ID where you can see I have played apex for more than 122hours and looking on both my main account [edit: email address removed] and my new account [edit: email address removed] you can see it's new accounts. My cloud save was synced to 2022. I want my account back please. I have also send the photo of the account that was previously linked to on steam which caused that issue yesterday. But EA support team said it was connected for like 2 years from now on idk about that. I unlinked it yesterday.

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    EA_Lanna
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    2 years ago

    Hi @xxfreeshroudxx

    In the thread title you mention an EA account was banned? I'm sorry, I wish I had better news for you, but we can't help you figure out how to get around an account ban. All we can do for you is share a link to more information about bans, why they are added and how to appeal them if the rules weren't broken. We've complied information from EA Help articles together into this thread to create a helpful guide/FAQ. Hopefully it helps if you deicide to appeal the ban: EA Bans and Suspensions - How they work and how to get in contact with us.

    In terms of the Steam account-side of things, the support team can't help if there's a ban in place. Once a ban is overturned, the option to make account edits will return for both you and the support team. Please also keep in mind what they mentioned about that 6 month timer. It's true; there isn't a way to link up a Steam account to another again until that 6 month timer ticks over:


    EA_Help wrote:

    Once you unlink a platform account (like Steam) from your EA Account and link it to a new EA Account, you can’t unlink it again for six months. Make sure unlinking is the best choice for you and that you understand the risks before you follow these steps. - How to link Steam and your EA Account


    Thank you, 

    - EA_Lanna

  • @EA_Lanna Sorry for the wrong msg there but actually it's not banned. It's just that I used to play with my main EA account which was linked to my steam account and all of a sudden i got a in-game msg to connect EA which i did and it said that someone else steam account is connected to that EA account. So I unlinked it and now my main EA account has data which was before like 2-3 years ago when I played Apex legends. I am 65 level there which now I was 450+ level and lots of good stuff has been lost. Then I was playing with my main EA account from that 65 level where I got banned while playing cuz i was slaying enemy in low ranked lobby... It might be that what caused me to get banned. I don't know what is wrong. And also now I am playing in a new EA account and I have got this issue from like a week ago where It takes 10-15min to get in a normal game. I also tried to change server to singapore but when I return to the title screen once then changing server does something to the game where I can't see the server locations. And then it's like I can change server in the game for once then nothing can be done. I have played for like 5 hours today and it took so much time to matchmaking even in singapore server as there are lots of people playing there and I used to get in game in like 5-15seconds.
  • @EA_Lanna So looking at it, I think just looking at the subject of the thread you replied to me because what I have written inside doesn't say much about the ban rather I was looking a way to get my main account which has a lot of ingame valuables that I have collected over the past few years. If this is how you guys provide feedback to us then it's very sad. Guess I will never be back again in EA. Steam support is the best to deal this kind of issues.

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