3 years ago
Linux players getting banned
Edit: Looks like they fixed the issue causing the bans. Edit 2: EA is reversing bans and sending out emails letting you know. Yay! Hello, I believe myself and a few others got banned for just playi...
Thank you for the effort. Id like to hope that if there is enough cases shown, we could fix this. Fingers crossed.
EA's CM seem to respond to threads created 2 hours ago yet they do not respond to this one. It seems we will have to kiss our accounts goodbye
Community managers can do anything in ban cases, a lot of them are volunteers, so it is normal that we don't get a text from them.
- Racsu
I started playing this game 6 months ago. The game felt good, and I spent a bunch of money and lots and lots of hours.
Now stuck in this situation where, all the affected people are simply helpless and just hoping that it gets resolved is crazy and sad.
There are no laws to protect the consumers (us) who used the product as advertised (Linux) is out of this world.
And I saw in the YouTube video that it took them a month to address this issue when it happened last time is ..... that is insane.
I am going to go open a case with Steam, I recommend you guys do the same.
Because Steam is also responsible for false advertisement (not just ea) if they simply ban the users for using advertised features.
Important update, ea team is already aware of the situation:

@RacsuChileyou're the king here man !
So in fact they are aware, but they didn't communicated on their official forums
I don't know if I must be desperate for my account or laughing
@LoboT0mmy Ea or Respawn are not good at all about communicating when is about linux stuff, don't expect anything via social media, the best that we can expect is getting unbanned and receive an email when that happens.
Also, thank you for being so good with me, putting a lot of effort on listing you all and doing posts here and there to reach as much as possible while being organized.
Getting to this point could not be possible without y'all taking the time to comment about your cases, like I said many times, it is good to not be alone in this situation, I really appreciate it <3
- Racsu
@RacsuChileyou're carrying us all with your actions. Thank you a lot for that. By a sweet irony you show what team play is with that ban 🙌 . You deserve the compliments.
I find very strange that a well known dev and a world present editor can't send some mails to the concerned account, giving some information. Even a "we're aware of the problem, we're working for a fix, please be patient and sorry for that" would be ok.
It just show that Linux users are, as usual, second class citizens, despite the fact that even in our small communities, some accounts have hundreds or thousands euros/dollars of content. I played since 1st season and when the game was available for linux, I happily bought stuff to support that move.
But now, as I see the "consideration" given to linux player, I begin to regret that. As I said before, I can understand a technical problem, but the lack of communication and the available contesting option that lead to "you stay ban definitely" is not something that give trust