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fasteningcobra0
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1 year ago

My apex account 100% with over £1500 of transactions got “permanently lost”

today 3:00 am I finished Investigating where my main og account data is , turns out it’s gone poof after being unlinked , it’s not on my psn , nor is it on my original ea account , just seemingly disappeared, that’s odd since I’d imagine data would be held with ea and link to the original ea account , but when I tried seeing if ea help could retrieve it , they came up with it being “ permanently lost “ , no fault to the staff at all , they were extremely patient with multiple cases lasting over an hour , some two hours , and they were overall very helpful and friendly, I tried asking if there was any higher I could take this or if there is any chance there are logs showing transactions that could hint where the original account data is , but no hope since they simply repeated it was out of their ability for most options I could come up with , I’m still going to continue playing since I’ve been around the titanfall/apex universe for a long while , I loved titanfall 2 and its really just a shame how it was released and underrated , I hope others are more careful than me or more fortunate, to retrieve or be compensated at least for their accounts , my years of history with that account are all summed up to “lost” so I don’t know how to feel about it but I’ll leave this off with an image of the account I had , nothing special but a lot of money and time was put into this game , also some special skins , r99 zero point , marching orders scout , and 2 heirlooms , one of them I had gotten before shards even existed , back then I wanted wraiths heirloom but I landed lifelines , eventually did get the shards for the kunai , oh the heirlooms ☹️

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  • I have another post on my issue and i still haven't gotten my account or skins/progression, i guess its all gone and i wont even have anything left from all i spent on my apex account , i even tired like some have to unlink and relink the PSN again which has retrieved accounts before but it didn't work for me, EA haven't said or compensated anything , nor asked for any transaction records which i have almost way too many or apex on my PSN transaction history, but absolutely nothing was done and most people i talked to with EA so far say they cant do anything, years gone , for absolutely nothing. HEIRLOOMS AND SKINS...

  • EA_Pythia's avatar
    EA_Pythia
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    1 year ago

    Hello @fasteningcobra0,

    progress and items are linked to the connection between the EA account and PSN account - when this connection is severed, the progress won't move to another EA account when you relink the PSN account and even if you relink the PSN account to the same EA account, there is a chance that the original unlinking progress has done irreparable damage, therefore making you lose all your progress and items.

    The disclaimer, which you have to agree to before unlinking platforms, tells you that your progress will be lost as well.

    If you already relinked your original PSN account to the original EA account again and the progress and items haven't turned up, there is nothing that can be done to retrieve the old information anymore.

  • fasteningcobra0's avatar
    fasteningcobra0
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    1 year ago

    Okay I understand the way you have put things but wouldn’t a transaction from my psn show the account the coins had went to , therefor revealing which apex account to retrieve , also I’m very curious to why on stats it shows my of progression but I still don’t have access , if you see my attachments to this reply you’ll see what I’m referring to , this search for my statistics was done today after my last post , and it shows my account with the wrong level meaning there’s still an old save on the “cloud” I see being referenced for data saves , that my account is still on , so it should still have the smallest chance of being reinstated , a rare one but nonetheless even if it’s a rolled back save of my account , if it has my heirlooms and most of my skins I’m very happy to just have that reinstated , if not then would there not be any way to at least have shards added to my account or coins considering the sheer amount I’ve spent on the account , and it’s not like I don’t have the purchase history , that’s easily obtained through my psn transactions history , with an order number and date associated, please look into this further since I believe even if it’s a rare chance , I could have a possibility of retrieving years of history I’ve made with the game , my psn is is clearly shown in the photo and the difference in kills is so small that I’m sure the save can’t be too far off having most of my skins/heirlooms

  • EA_Pythia's avatar
    EA_Pythia
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    1 year ago

    @fasteningcobra0,

    unfortunately, just because there are remnants of data are still found, it doesn't mean your account can be restored. Unlinking doesn't necessarily destroy the entire account, but it can happen and unfortunately for you, this is one of those cases where the account has been mostly wiped through your unlinking action. If Support already checked your account and told you that there is nothing they can do, then that is sadly the case.

    We also don't have access to account information here in the forum, so there is nothing we can do to help you here with this issue, as your problem stems from your account, which only support has access to.

    Here is the article on unlinking accounts, where the risks are explained again. As you can see there, it is always recommended to start anew on a different account instead of unlinking, as it can lead to a lot of issues for Apex Legends.

  • fasteningcobra0's avatar
    fasteningcobra0
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    1 year ago

    Okay I’ve understood that my account which I have spent thousands on is permanently gone , but that there is the problem, I have spent thousands on the game just to have nothing left over from this , surely there is a form of compensation or account currency that should be given to a player if their years of spending over a game gets mistakenly deleted from existence because of a condition that is based on pure luck , the condition being if you unlink your account you lose all access to the progress and that linking it back could result in recovery but also could mean nothing at all , I’ve stated quite clearly that I have transaction history to prove how much I’ve spent with ea , so why shouldn’t I be credited anything considering the lack of ability to retrieve a customers account , not only do I have to gut the fact I’ve lost all my cosmetics which are rare themselfs , but I really get NOTHING? A little unfair if you ask maybe all other players who have the same issue as me , I’ve seen players receive coins and heirloom shards for being locked out of their account before , but someone PERMANENTLY LOOSING their account is not enough to justify any entitlement to what that person has spent during the access of the lost account , no refunds , literally zero return on my investment in the game , that’s really selfish of ea to credit players coins for being locked out ,especially if they are a content creator , because that’s shamelessly only helping those who can speak out about it to a wider audience , but the actual majority of players without a platform to express their issue don’t get anything for their accounts being lost and inaccessible to ea , which in itself sound really bad considering how much money is held on just a simple click unlinking years of progress down the drain ..

  • Broncochief101's avatar
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    1 year ago

    How come other games and game companies have come out with cross progression without having this sort of problem? It took EA a very very long time to come out with this service and when they did it did not even work for people. I feel like something should be done but like you did say we did agree to the risk of losing everything. It is just very frustrating because I also lost everything that I had pn my account including heirlooms and rare skins, what over 7000 hours fo playing time had gotten me.

  • fasteningcobra0's avatar
    fasteningcobra0
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    1 year ago

    How have players gotten coins and heirloom shards for less crazy situations regarding account data , it’s genuinely disappointing 

  • I have just lost my account today with over 2000$ spent and I think we should be able to get money back but something u will never be able to get is my time back on that game

  • fasteningcobra0's avatar
    fasteningcobra0
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    1 year ago

    Feels bad man I hope you can get it back , have you tried re-linking the original platform you played on to your original ea account the progress was saved on? , or have you contacted ea by saying your account was hacked if you lost access to the email, they can change it to an email that’s not associated to any ea account for you , that’s only if you can prove that the ea account is yours , I hope I could help but unfortunately none of these things worked for me , it’s specific to some random chance it seems , I agree with you also , players should be compensated for their entitlement to what they purchased, especially after loosing their years of history with an account they grew with time and money , it’s extremely unfair how they just treat accounts , which have just temporarily lost access to their accounts , with heirloom shards and apex coins , but not for their large population of a community which have lost their accounts.  Also the lack of reliability in data being actually saved by ea for cases like these is very difficult to understand considering there are many triple A games that have “cloud saves” for retrieving accounts over many different stages of that account being progressed , meaning of one is corrupted/scattered like most cases with apex , another save that may be rolled back can still be reinstated , but that’s just not the case here , really disappointing considering the sheer amount of value a player can have on just one account , just adding up the heirlooms will have you emptying your bank account , and for there to be a possibility of loosing that so easily? Insane thing to over look and just leave to “chance” like mayyyybe you’ll get your account back , maybe you won’t, nothing we can do about it” 

  • Indar2's avatar
    Indar2
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    1 year ago

    This also just happened to me as well. Made the mistake of linking my Steam and PSN accounts under the wrong EA account, waited 6 months, linked them both under the correct one, and boom everything is gone. It gave me a fresh account and gave me "thank you" prompts for purchasing old packs I did years ago and even gave me 600 apex coins from those packs. I dont think there is any way to get our old accounts back the way its all set up. 

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