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chocman1978
Rising Rookie
1 month ago
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Broken ban system

I have recently been transfer banned after being falsely accused of coin transfer. 

Your system is broken as it flags legitimate actions as breaking ToS. 

Similarly your appeal system is not suitable as the same automated responses are sent out with no evidence provided.  

Im order to get the evidence you are using to falsely accuse me of something I have requested my data via a GDPR request that stated  it should take a couple of hours. It has now been 12 hours.

I wish to escalate this to a formal complaint. Please provide your legal department address for me to submit an official complaint about the system you are using to give out bans, the appeal system and your potential failure to adhere to GDPR regulations.  

From reading these forums are in other places there seems to be a large number of people affected. All I can suggest is doing the same thing. Request your data, use tools available in all good search tool providers to help you write a formal complaint.

Kind regards 

  • Hey chocman1978​​, actions taken on your account can be frustrating, but in cases like this, there's really nothing that we on the forums can do to directly deal with your ban due to privacy and security concerns. We are not able to discuss a ban with you or give details on why a ban was placed or an appeal rejected and our inability to verify account ownership with you on the forum means that we can direct you to the right support.

    All we can do is recommend that you appeal the ban by following the steps in this help article

    A member of the team reviews your appeal and will make a decision based on all the information at hand. The replies you receive are not automated; the team uses templates to ensure uniformity. If your appeal is declined, it means the investigation found evidence to uphold the ban. If you believe a mistake was made in this case, then you can file another appeal, providing all the information you have about why you feel the ban was incorrectly added.

    The GDPR request can take some time to gather. You will get an update when the data is ready to download. Gathering that much data is quite a job and due to privacy and security, it may take a little more time to privatise and gather.

    If you wish to make a formal complaint, you can do so through our live support team here. They will be able to review your complaint and see if it qualifies for escalation as a formal complaint.

    If you wish to pursue legal action, then your legal team would be aware of the process of initiating action. If you speak with them, they will know how to reach out to the right team within EA to begin the process.

     

     Darko

16 Replies

  • Bananapyt10's avatar
    Bananapyt10
    Seasoned Rookie
    1 month ago

    if you were here to help you would have done it by now. You know that people are getting banned for no reason at the moment… 

  • MTM_U05's avatar
    MTM_U05
    Seasoned Newcomer
    22 days ago

    Just got banned 2 days ago. Appreciate chocman1978​ for speaking out for the community, and as you have pointed out, what is the point of apologizing for removing the solution when there was no solution provided in the chat. There is no sense of urgency in EA to help us, people that have actually spent money on the game, but instead are labeled disrespectful for pointing clear errors in the system. And for the future, we are not here so you can understand our frustration, we are here so you can fix our situations.

  • stfly320's avatar
    stfly320
    Seasoned Novice
    13 days ago

    I have spent more than 25k this year, I spent $1000 on 16th of May and open packs and sold the players I packed. And I got banned, I’m member since 2014. This to me is a scam as your system has no right to ban legit player. We spent money and time to built up a team and you banned us without any evidence. And your appeal are all automatic reply with lies. No one actually look the account. I’m going to ACCC and report the situation and I will public this.

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  • EA_Darko's avatar
    EA_Darko
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    4 hours ago

    Hey jawor02​ please don't post the same thing to multiple threads as we consider this spam.

    You can appeal your ban by following the link in the accepted solution in this thread.

    Darko