Microsoft account linked to Deleted EA account

Hello, thanks for replying, but I have already tried that route. Twice actually. An advisor cannot help me recover the "deleted" account. 

Support: If you want to unlink it kindly have access to the email id linked with that account.
Me: what's the email?
Support: As the account is deleted I can not see the email.

If it's in fact deleted, then... why is it associated with anything? Support won't do anything unless I can somehow reactive a deleted account. I tried all my current, active email addresses already. Why does the old account have to be recovered? I just want it removed from my gamer tag.  A gamer tag I can prove is my own. I have access to both active accounts that I need linked. Does no one in support have the authority to do such a thing regarding account management? 

All the threads I have found about this situation have been locked with no true solution or reports of anyone that has gotten this resolved. 

"If you can't verify account ownership, then there's nothing anyone can do." - Then locked. 

Again, I have access to both the active accounts that matter. Actually deleting the "deleted" account is all I want done. 

I fully understand that there are limits on this board about what can be done in this topic directly, however I feel this a valid place to discuss it since "contact us" goes nowhere helpful.

@dcourtwreck 

We can't unlink a gamertag without verifying ownership because it's very damaging. You lose all content and progress for EA games. This would be a big problem if we allowed anyone to contact us and unlink accounts without proving they are the owner. These threads are locked because there is nothing we can do about it through Answers HQ so they very frequently just go in a circle and often turn very toxic.

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@EA_Aljo wrote:

@dcourtwreck 

We can't unlink a gamertag without verifying ownership because it's very damaging. You lose all content and progress for EA games. This would be a big problem if we allowed anyone to contact us and unlink accounts without proving they are the owner. These threads are locked because there is nothing we can do about it through Answers HQ so they very frequently just go in a circle and often turn very toxic.

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The trouble is there is often no way to prove my Xbox account is my own (ie the email EA has in account does not exist). What has been requested 1000 times is to give the account owners some other REASONABLE way to validate ownership (tell me an IP address from 10 years ago is not reasonable)

In the dozens of threads we've seen on this topic I have seen some cases where support will offer to send the user a message directly on Xbox live with a verification code. DO THIS. Make this standard escalation procedure.

Follow existing process until all other avenues are exhausted, but give users an out.

As someone that is TRYING to play EAs games, and has since NHL 94, it's very frustrating and sort of a slap in the face to be told the company is just locking threads instead of working towards a solution for a problem as common as this.

@miks88 

Threads get locked because there's nothing we can do about this and these conversations tend to become toxic. 

As far as account verification goes, there are more questions than the IP address so it's not solely based on that. They ask you questions about the history of the account so the idea is that the actual owner will know those details.

@EA_AljoI'd just like to chime in here i've contacted your support 3 times and each time I get the same copy paste answer that I have to re-again access to the old account. The old account in my case and numerous others being decades old with no way of accessing the e-mail.

In my case, I have the outlook address that my gamertag is currently using. I have a screenshot showing that link. 

I have created a new EA account alongside this one with that outlook address..... Can you not just take that as proof of ownership?

If you want me to verify one EA account with another EA account that shows the link between gamertag and Microsoft account i'll happily do that.

I can tell you with 100% certainty that not every account owner will be able to tell you this information. Like I said, I've had my gamertag for a LOOONG time - since day 1 of Xbox live.

So that means it could be any one of the dozen addresses I've lived at in the past 15+ years, any one of the credit card #s in the same period (could also be my mother's, since she paid for it when I was a kid), and I have only purchased physical copies of EA games in the past so I'm really clueless on how to look up my history there.

Is there simpler solution than asking a user to dig up decades old information that may or may not exist? Yes. Take 15 seconds to send a verification code to the account (the XBL/PSN account, not the EA email) you're verifying. Account owners will know the code.

Edit: I want to be clear, I am not trying to start a "toxic" discussion. I would however like to share the flaws and frustrations with EA's support and account verification policies. I understand EA community managers can not directly do anything to solve the issue here in this forum but this problem will not magically go away by locking threads. We would like to help EA find a solution that works within their policies as well.

@miks88 

It's not an easy one to come up with a perfect solution for. The easier it is to recover your account, the easier it is for others to steal accounts. For example, if someone hacks your Xbox account and we sent a message there to verify, we've now handed over the account to the hacker. I definitely get how frustrating this is, but currently it's our only option for account recovery.

@Philster07 

I'm really sorry, but there is absolutely nothing I can do to help with this. Unless the account recovery process changes, you'll need to be able to answer the questions the advisor asks.

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@dcourtwreck wrote:
@EA_AljoIn my case, it's a deleted EA account that is paired to my gamer tag, confirmed by EA support chat. What content/progress is there to lose with a deleted account? Apparently whatever email address is associated with the account isn't even available to the rep anymore. The advisor doesn't have any verification questions for me because it seems very little data is retained for a deleted account. It's just dead weight on my Xbox gamer tag.

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This is my case as well, linked to a deleted account so now my gamertag cannot be used with EA nor the account recovered. I was even able to track down the correct email, but when support attempts to send me a code nothing comes through because the account is deleted.