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BlueJay5671
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2 years ago
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RE: Apex Legends BAN Illegal

I'm sorry I can't find my original posting where I complain about being accused of being a cheater.  Here is my latest posting on the matter. The "auto" and "macro" functions are on the menu provide...
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BlueJay5671
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2 years ago

Even in most jurisdictions you are given three strikes before they throw the book at you and receive the maximum sentence, ban of your account.   They will even tell you what part of the code you broke.  The same can't be said of EA.   Steam won't let me subscribe to EA Play with a ban on the account.  What's the deal?  EA Support says I can and Steam support says I can't. The worst thing I did was go AFK during a game full of zero kill players.  I'll avoid that situation from now on.  I thought my Steam ID was offensive so I did something about it but a google search says my Steam ID means a person with specialized knowledge.  Now that I've studied the ToS in detail I know better.  I've been out of it for a while. Who would have thought gaming would be such a serious matter.  I'm still interested but I'm not enjoying myself much.

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BlueJay5671
Seasoned Novice
2 years ago
@vl6gm8d38r05 If an operator spotted that I left the game before the match was over shouldn't be an actionable offence.  The game informed me that I was doing something undesirable and gave me a 20 minute time out as a warning.  I never repeated that mistake.    Also, I went away from the keyboard while in the game lobby to eat dinner.   That didn't spoil anyone's game.  When I came back I was banned.   Perhaps leaving the game running while you are afk uses too much resources on the  servers but only an operator would know that.   I thought that going afk in the lobby was an issue of a few bytes of gigabytes of memory.  All that said I am sorry but I don't think having the book thrown at me makes any sense financially or otherwise.
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    BlueJay5671
    Seasoned Novice
    2 years ago

    Its all starting to make sense.  So it may have been an operator that found my game name of geek offensive and decided to report me as cheating.  Google says geek means a person with specialized knowledge.  Best Buy has the geek squad.  I've worked in IT and have heard the term geek thrown around loosely by managers of all people.  If you ask microsoft bing it reports that it used to mean a circus freek.  I don't like the term, its still insulting to some but you learn to live with it.  It seams you can't win.

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      EA_Mako
      Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
      2 years ago

      Hey @vl6gm8d38r05,

      To be clear, this action on the account was not because you were afk in the lobby, or due to your username being reported for being offensive.

      Neither of these actions would result in a ban or suspension for cheating as mentioned in your original post.

      If you've already appealed this multiple times and our Terms of Service team has declined to remove the penalty, that means they've reviewed our records of the situation multiple times and confirmed their initial findings will not be changed.

      As we cannot address these issues on the forums this thread is being locked here, thanks. 

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