False positive bans
I just got a false positive banned from BF2042 this morning, while I was not even home... how is this even possible? I guess its rip my ultimate edition. I believe another user @Gryphonv got the sa...
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@MrDraken Crossing my fingers. I'm dying to see if you or anyone else can get your hands on actual info that can point to at least what the specific ban was.
@-NME-M0710NM4N I got a response from EA support. From the bot))). they buried their heads in the sand like an ostrich. they cannot do anything. this game will die completely at the beginning of the year. we should just forget about it. it's a shot in the leg. EA are losing money, losing developers, customers. Battlefield is another loss. R.I.P.
- @errorer1 It's a mess of epic proportions.
What happened to the days where you could defend yourself when accused? What happened to the days you could correspond back and forth with the ban dept and maybe attempt to get a reprieve or 2nd chance?
Boggles my mind that you can just lose hundreds of hours and $60 - $120 in the blink of an eye for something you either didn't do... or maybe at the very least may have earned yourself a temp ban.
But it honestly comes off like their just a bunch of thieves. They randomly ban totally innocent people and they pray those people will buy another copy so they can make up for the epic losses they got with developing this 77% negative reviewed pile of rubbish.
And how much of a nitwit does someone have to be, to think that a person would risk cheating on their main account... risk losing $1000's worth of games and 1000's of hours played, when most cheaters are smart enough to do it on a secondary account?
And does it not seem a little strange that (like many others I'm sure) that I have almost every BF within my Origin and have no other bans on that account (aside from this BS one) in all these years. I have a Steam account with dozens of games... and no VAC bans on record over 11 yrs! But I decided to fire up 2042 on my main account and cheat?
The FKN wow factor is off the charts that this can happen. And who the FK listens? Nobody.
I'll stop ranting for now... my blood pressure is through the roof and I have to call my bank in 20 minutes to do the charge-back. - @-NME-M0710NM4N This is epic fail. I've played every Battlefield game since Bad Company 2. Never used cheats, never supported EA. And now we are all gradually becoming cheaters and scammers))). I donate my money to EA. I advise you not to return your money yet. Let's forget for a while, celebrate the new year, and then we'll see how the ostrich will pull its head out of the sand))).
- @-NME-M0710NM4N I've got 17 years+ on my Steam account, never ever been banned or cheated. Have 3.4 hours in total on BF2042 according to Steam but it was probably around 1h and I left the game idling for the other 2.4h.
Pre-ordered early and paid around €90. Playtested the beta and then immediately sold off all my EA stock that I bought during the summer. Very glad I sold as it plummeted quickly after BF launch.
This game should never been released in this state. I really wanted a good solid AAA BR replacement to give up on Warzone with the non-existent anticheat and corrupt streamerworld/whitelistings that Activison upholds.
But I guess I have to wait. Guess we all might have to go back/over to console if this EA parody continues... - @indi81 Never been a console player. I'm just gonna go back to CoD. Gonna keep grinding in Cold War and hope next yrs release of Modern Warfare is better than Vanguard.
Gonna hang out here with some popcorn and hope something comes back on any of the EU players with the GDPR. Also still hoping Tom Henderson will write an article about this mess and shine a spotlight on it. - @-NME-M0710NM4N And I'll take popcorn.👍
- @errorer1 I don't think it has to do with my ban. I wasn't connected to any server at that point, just to clarify 😊
More to make a point that I paid €90 for approximately 2h of effective "gametime". The so-called EA game inflation rate seems a bit high, wasn't expecting that just because I paid for the Gold edition... @-NME-M0710NM4NGetting now my First email After my GDPR Request. At least one from a real human. Will inform you about Future responses if you want.
I just spent an hour on the phone with my bank to open up a fraud case. I was issued a $96.29 provisional credit until the investigation is completed. Again, I don't really care about the money as I hardly played the game even though I made the Pre-Order purchased way in October to play the Beta even though I didn't even play that! It's just the feeling of being robbed without an explanation.
I will take it further and do what others have done and file for an exact reason as to the Ban as I know for certain I have NEVER cheated. I literally have been playing this series from BF1 through the ups and downs, to the silliness, through it all. Have been with the same clan since BF3 and this just erks the ish out of me because it's obviously an issue on their end but to give people these automated responses is just fowl.
I'll keep pushing because at the end of the day, it's more about being able to play, if I wanted to, vs. being PERMENANTLY BANNED for no apparent reason.
@UniDaHeroPlease keep us updated, I'm curious if they take further action against your account.
Hopefully we get an answer in the new year, at this point I've lost all care for this game, if I get unbanned cool but no need perusing it further as all roads seem to lead to the same bot responses and frustration. Don't know what accusation I'm defending myself against, so pointless worrying about it.
