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lopasi
2 years ago

Cheater gave away 180M coins in a match in 2022, will my account be banned...

A cheater gave away 180M coins in a match in 2022, will my account be banned when the anti-cheat is implemented?

Hello,
In May 2022, I tried to play a public match in Garden Operations, and there I found a cheater constantly giving away coins to my teammates. I left immediately, but when I checked my coins I saw that I had 180 million more.


I asked on the forum at the time:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Other-Plants-vs-Zombies-Games/A-cheater-gave-me-180-000-000-coins/m-p/11509729#M99183


Additionally, I contacted EA Support (submitted a case to EA Help, technical support), asking for those coins to be deleted, and they told me that it was not possible to restore a player's data to a previous point.

Still, now with the arrival of EA Anticheat I don't feel completely safe.

Could my account be banned because the cheater gave me coins without me wanting it?
If it could happen, where should I contact (I have the technical support case number) to have my account unbanned?

Thanks

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  • ChaosCadence's avatar
    ChaosCadence
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 years ago

    Pretty certain the anti-cheat won't detect things like that. The anti-cheat (from what we know) is based around interrogating game files, not progression events (collecting XP or coins). Pretty sure there isn't a record kept of those anyway (especially that long ago), so I'd say categorically you'd be fine

  • lopasi's avatar
    lopasi
    2 years ago

    I hope so.
    It's likely that the anti-cheat doesn't control coins or XP, as you say, and it only checks if game files have been changed, but I got paranoid due to everybody reseting to level one.

    Still, I hope some community manager or EA worker could clarify this doubt.

    Thanks for your answer @ChaosCadence  🙂

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