Randomly Banned after not playing for months.
Randomly banned after being a EA Play member for years(sometimes off and on depending on if I'm playing EA published games) on Apex Legends after maybe 2hrs of gaming, then receiving an Email that I've been banned at 3AM in the morning that following night. I didn't know about it until I tried to play Apex tonight and started to research what I can do to dispute and understand why my account was flagged or banned.
I can't think of any reason how it would flag me for anything considering I've never cheated in any online game since I've been playing games since the early 2000s. Those matches weren't wins, I didn't win every engagement nor did I have "cheating like map knowledge" as me and my 2 friends were ambushed and surprised numerous times. I didn't get disconnected randomly during matches, nor left early - let alone leaving multiple times. I can only imagine a trio of 3 players that we killed reported me or my 2 friends. They have not been banned as I know and will ask them to try to get on to see if they are as this is something I'm dealing with currently.. The other thing I can think of is the anti-cheat flagging my system since I'm running AMD's overlay software, a FanSpeed program or maybe the 2 RGB programs. Razer Synpase and the ASRock RGB to sync colors to Synapse.
I just wonder if there's anyone else who has been wrongfully banned and got their account back. I would like to know how long it took and how the customer service responded and listened as this would be my 2nd time requesting support from EA and the first time was handled well.
This will affect my future support of EA games and my EA Play membership as if I can't continue to play online games that EA offers and have to worry about being banned wrongfully. I have no reason to give any of their devs my money and will instead go elsewhere. It's disappointing to have to deal with this after coming home from work and unwinding to play Apex.
All the available information relating to your ban would have been communicated to you via the email associated with your EA account.
You can also check out your ban history here, but please note not all bans may appear here:
https://help.ea.com/en/my-ban-history/
The EA staff who work here on AHQ cannot help you directly with account-related issues, such as bans, only the TOS team can help you.
If you feel you have been incorrectly banned, the only thing you can do is to dispute any action taken against your EA account by following the steps in this article:
https://help.ea.com/en/help/account/information-about-banned-or-suspended-accounts/
There is also this AHQ guide on bans and suspensions :
https://answers.ea.com/t5/EA-General-Questions/EA-Bans-and-Suspensions-How-they-work-and-how-to-get-in-contact/m-p/9754200#M355907
It is my understanding that you can appeal a ban a number of times.