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Rising Rookie

1 year ago

Accounts are falsely banned and cannot be resolved

It is obvious that there is a bug in EA's APEX game, which has led to many players' accounts being falsely banned. I am the same. After being banned, I have a clear conscience, so I have been sen...

pressWnroll

1 year ago

Thanks @AMknows for mentioning this. I'll just write my case as I did on the forum.

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On July 7th (Sunday), I experienced an unusual occurrence while playing the game. During the first half hours of my session, I was placed in lobbies that appeared to be filled with bots. Fortunately, the issue resolved itself, and the rest of my session continued normally. I stopped playing around 3:30 PM UTC. However, upon logging in the next day, I discovered that my account had been banned at 7:09 PM UTC on the same day (Sunday).

I wasn't banned mid-game. The day after. I've been playing since the game came out. And I play on just one account. I've reported countless cheaters. Every match I play, I have cheaters. Every single match. The servers I play in is literally unplayable for cheater and EA banned ME for cheating? The irony.

I only play like only in the weekends. I've a consistent KD of like 0.5 throughout these 4+ year. Yeah, I know I'm terrible at the game. If I'd cheated even for a single match, wouldn't that show up in their log or something?

Thought it was a false Ban. So, I reached out EA help. I received an e-mail respond saying that, 'We have confirmed that your account was involved in cheating. Because of this, we will not remove the sanction on your account.' I want to clarify that I did not receive any email regarding this ban prior to my communication with EA support. And OMG, you can't find the 'Chat Support' anymore while logged in! If I visit the website without logging in I can see it. But when I try to select chat support, it asks me to log in. And once you're logged in, the chat support is gone!

I requested Team EA to just go through my gameplay log and check for any changes in my gameplay behavior, or in my KD, or in my hit accuracy, anything. They Declined, again.

I've spent more than 2000 hours in this game. May not sound a lot, But this is literally the only game I've played consistently for 4+ years and spent hundreds. It'd not be just dumb but also pointless for me to cheat on my only Apex account which also has heirloom.

If I had cheated with my terrible track record even for a single match, wouldn't it reflect in my score/KD or have some sort of log? At least my gameplay behavior would be different, would it not?

I pointed out everything in my second request. They refuse to gimme a reason. At least gimme a reason, so that I can understand what's going on and why; and defend myself.

I'm honestly devastated at the moment. 4+ years of grind, time, energy all wasted.

DavidClaws
1 year ago
following i also ran into the same exact thing when I was playing, I got a bunch of bot lobbies out of no where and then didn't play for a whole week because I was aware of how shadow ban systems work and was thinking I maybe got into a party with a cheater. Over 4000 hours played and never once cheated. I used tap strafe on roller through steam yes, but so did 1million other users that accounts are still working till this day. Where is the accountability from EAs end to give us fair closure. We aren't the only ones who are experiencing this SAME issue. Ive played with lots of now Pros in their early days and always played this game with integrity and honesty. Look into it please EA. The dying player base says it all.