EA's flawed anti-cheat system will lead to a LOT of wrongful bans

I already made a thread about my own case, but I've done some digging and reached a pretty easy conclusion: EA has changed their quality of input without changing their quality of output.

That's to say, Easy Anti-Cheat is providing an unprepared (outsourced) staff with more "red flags," and they have been charged with banning without any questions asked. The "zero tolerance" policy is in full effect, so the staff is enacting a shoot first, ask questions later approach to moderation. So, in practice, their moderation is now worse. MUCH worse.

I've looked into certain cases of players being banned for almost nothing (some of them barely even played the game). You have the clearest case of [CM - removed], seen banned live while streaming, not even four hours into playing. Then another case of [CM - removed]...a player whose skills, no offense, don't remotely fit the profile of a cheater. Both of these cases can be found on YouTube.

Several others have come forward to proclaim the same "cheating" email sent out en masse every morning, within only a day or two of the early access -- mine was around 8AM on the 14th. The likelihood that you had such an influx of cheaters who paid extra (in my case, $110) just to challenge EA's newly touted anti-cheat is simply absurd. And to applaud such an approach is naive, considering how 2042 has faltered on so many other fronts.

What EA has effectively done is overburdened the same inadequate appeal system, which will most likely refuse to overturn bans due to poor training/preparation, overload, or all of the above.

THIS SHOULD CONCERN EVERYONE.

If the system sees anything remotely suspicious (from high skill to third-party peripheral software from a smaller company), you're gone. No inquiry. Nothing. They will take away what you paid for, and you're left sitting on your hands. In my original (now closed) thread, a mod linked EA's hilarious official stance on bans that claims: "Before activating bans on players, we always do thorough investigations. In 2018, the number of false positive bans in all DICE titles could be counted on one hand."

This is a flagrant lie.

Does the game have cheaters now? Perhaps. Will it have cheaters after launch? Absolutely. But blind firing at the bad guys means nothing if the majority of people hit are innocent.

Full stop, this system is fundamentally broken.

Note: This is not an appeal thread. This is a general discussion of the moderation system.