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oxfordcon34
Rising Newcomer
14 days ago

EA Support has Failed Me

Pretty awesome to highly anticipate playing a game so much you buy a PlayStation 5, only to find out your PSN is linked to an EA account from a decade ago for a university email address that has since been deactivated. Upon booting up the game to be hit with a password reset request of the EA account associated email address, I have no options. Support was unhelpful and I’ve spent the past several hours deliberating with EA and PSN to figure out a solution so I can play my desired game modes. No one at EA has been helpful and on multiple accounts my cases were closed before the solutions were found. I provided ample information to EA and they closed my cases siting “No Fix”. Now I have no way to chat, and no open lines of communication. It won’t even let me chat or email a support line. I requested a refund through PSN, but since I downloaded the game already, they denied.

Truly a failure in EA Support, I can’t understand how there isn’t a procedure for handling this. If anyone has a solution, please let me know. I have tried contacting my university, EA, and PSN. My final option is to dispute the charge on my card, but even worse I can’t play the game I highly anticipated playing. 

am I just screwed?

4 Replies

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    14 days ago

    Hi there. Unfortunately, if you can't accurately answer the verification questions, an advisor won't be able to update the email address on your account. The best I can advise is to try to more accurately answer those questions.

  • brad6932's avatar
    brad6932
    Rising Newcomer
    14 days ago

    dealing with the same thing lmk if you figure out how to fix it…

  • oxfordcon34's avatar
    oxfordcon34
    Rising Newcomer
    13 days ago

    brad6932​ the Aljo guy above’s solution was “try harder to remember your password” 😂 absolutely pathetic - I can offer more than that. I spent 6 hours on this yesterday, they asked me really stupid questions no one would know the answer to: “do you remember the last time you logged in?” “Do you have a receipt?” “What were connected accounts?” - well I was in college and it was 10 years ago, so I dare them to find someone who can answer those from a decade previous.

    The only solution I’ve found was to create a new PSN and a new EA account just for EA games and log in to both of those. I set my PlayStation settings to allow other users to play the downloaded games but I think this was the default. This is ridiculous, but it will allow you to play the game.

    If you want your money back, you can also request a chargeback with your credit card company for a refund. I provided screenshots of all of my interactions with EA customer service, PSN, and an explanation about how the game is unusable and I paid for it, and I how I have exhausted all reasonable options with all merchants involved. 

    hopefully this is more helpful than “try harder to remember” haha - good luck bro 

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    13 days ago

    That's not what I said. I said they should try to remember the answers to the questions they're being asked. Since they own the account, it's not unrealistic to assume you would know your own account details.

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