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shinbryann95's avatar
4 years ago

Falsely banned for cheating

My account got banned and the reason stated was that I was hacking. I've never hacked or cheated in Apex Legends so I don't know where EA is getting this information that my account was cheating. I also do not know if my account was breached or not because I never received a notification or alert saying that someone was trying to access my account. Additionally, I don't know why EA lets you log into the game still and then tells you that you were banned while you're trying to queue for a game. I ended up buying Apex Coins only to realize that I was banned afterward while trying to queue for a game. Does anyone know if other accounts have previously gotten falsely banned and the success chance of getting unbanned? I've spent a decent amount of money on this game already and don't want to make a new account. 

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  • heres the funny thing whenever somebody claims to be falsely banned for something they always go to the forums over what really needs to be done cuz they know they got busted red handed and they try to get the players behind them happens all the time anybody who really has been falsely banned never goes to the forums they go right to the support ticket with their proof

  • ramboozer's avatar
    ramboozer
    4 years ago

    Typically I would 100% Agree however...EA Support is god awful. I was false ban from Apex Legends from playing Valorant...the Riot Anti-Cheat conflicted with EasyAnti-Cheat... They kept telling me I cheated...until I straight up had to point out the fact..I played valorant. They don't have the smarts to actually see whats going on, you need to spoon feed them information they readily have available to them. This has been solved after a long and painful process and as far as I know THE ONLY way people got false banned for a short period of time. Ha! Don't get me started on the problem with Missing Twitch Skins that EA Support likes to tell me "Don't just disappear because its not programmed that way"....well no *...but 500+ Forum posts saying it does because its happened.

     
  • shinbryann95's avatar
    shinbryann95
    4 years ago

    I've submitted a ticket or appeal to EA already before I even made this post. I made this post to ask about others who've been in this similar situation too because I've actually never cheated. I wanted to know if others have actually gotten their bans appealed and if EA requires a lot of documents in order to support your claim. I assure you I'm not cheating when I'm a hardstuck gold player averaging less than a kill a game.

  • I've already created an appeal, but I have not gotten a response in a few days now. How long does the process usually take?

  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
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    4 years ago
    @shinbryann95
    We wouldn't need any additional documents to review a ban. Those actions are based entirely on what we can verify in our own records, so all you'll need to do is request that we take another look (which you've already done).

    The length just depends on how many other requests are in their queue already. I'm not able to see that specifically, but based on other recent appeals you should be hearing back fairly soon if it's already been a few days.
  • I was falsely banned just like you.. I put in a ticket and the response was you have been found to be cheating and there is basically nothing you can do.. So fine I stop playing apex all together.  Then a couple of months go by and I get an email stating that my ban was lifted.. I was like.. "So what, I don't even play the stupid game anyways.. lol" But just recently I decided to play again. I played like 4 hours and then like 1 hour the following day.. And then BAM! I get account banned again.. lol.. So I put in another ticket to have it investigated but I know it will just be another copy pasted reply until they can actually get to a real investigation.. So in the mean time there is absolutely nothing I can do.. Oh well. .back to my other games.. two thumbs down for EA.. two thumbs down for EAC.. two thumbs down for APEX.. 

  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago
    Hey @kERTunkk,

    Please be mindful of the dates when replying to threads. This one is a bit old and is being locked to avoid necroposting.

    If you've already submitted an appeal for this with our ToS team, you'll need to wait for a reply from them. Please keep an eye on your email.

    This is not something we're able to review on the forums, sorry.

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