ERROR 401 BYTEVAULT_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED

Ok no one asked for you to post something as pointless as this telling what you can not do. No one cares so stop posting nonsense. This is the only place where people can post the same problems they are having and look for solutions. If you care to read this thread a bit you might understand. 

"Nobody on AHQ can assist woth this issue, contacting accountdisputes is the way to go."

See, this proves you are just spamming posts in order to gain points or whatever. Did you bother to read some of the posts in the last 4 pages? Ofcourse you didn't.

"It appears that you should have received some communication about this some time back, please check emails or your spam folder in case this was missed. However we can't discuss or make any changes at all to this through this channel."

Again, just plain garbage. Please do not post here as you are of zero help and just irritating.

Accruing "points" is of no value to me, I assure you. I am telling you that repeatedly posting here for this issue does no good, and accountdisputes is the only way to get your issue resolved. That's your "solution" and no other one will help you. 

I understand that you're frustrated, but there is no leeway on this.

If you had read the previous pages you would have known that we already contacted accountdisputes. And nearly non of us had their problems solved since they are "too busy" to fix their mistake and give us an explanation. So we are here sharing any information we can get such as "why did this happen?", "how long did it take for them to get back to you" etc. Heck, this is place where people (including me) learned that error 401 meant you were banned.

This is not a thread where I am just repeating posts (spamming), you are.

This is EA Answer HQ, and this is a issue which deserves an answer. And no, the answer is not "contact accountdisputes". We already did that and obviously were'nt answered/will not be answered for some stupid amount of time. Just because you are incapable of answering does not mean we can't ask the questions found in the previous 4 pages.

If an enough number of people with the same issue post here I am sure this issue will somehow be relayed to the EA officials and they will have to give a damn. So instead of saying stuff like you are just a voluntary church group or whatever and no one can help us, just leave this thread alone.

Since you haven't noticed, I am an EA employee. This issue has been relayed some time ago, damns have been given and these cases needs to be dealt with on an individual basis by account disputes. I can see some details of your account, and that you should have had some correspondence before,  which is why I asked you to check.

This is getting very circular, so please don't keep bumping this thread.

Oh you are? Well that is great. And this has been relayed before and damns have been given? I am glad to hear that, even if still after three weeks "apparently" nothing has been done and no form of explanation was given. The correspondance you are talking about, here:

"Dear Customer,

We are contacting you in relation to the query that you have raised regarding your Origin Account.

We would like to advise that we are currently looking into the matter for you and we will be in touch with you once our investigation is complete.

In the meantime should you wish to review our Terms of Service they can be found here: http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/

Thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter.

Yours sincerely,

Sharon
EA Terms of Service

EA.com Customer Relations"

Totally not a copy&paste response other people on this thread have said they also received (check page 3).

If you are an EA employee, I request you to properly read the 4 pages here and see what has been done. I am hoping you will see that in reality not nearly enough damns were given (whether it is really a lack of care or just due to a terrible system). Perhaps you have the power to speed things up a bit so our issues get solved before months have passed. AT WORST, Mr. EA employee, I am owed an explanation on why I can't get what I have paid for. Interestingly there were no issues while taking our money.

I will not be bumping this thread except when there is an update so others can be informed as well. I hope you will be letting others post as well, since as I've said, this is the only place where we can share and try to figure out what is going on.

Been waiting 2 weeks now. EA, just lift our bans.

Yep, still waiting myself.  2 weeks in and I've heard no response after the initial "we are looking into it" email from Account disputes.  Judging by their utter lack of response, it seems to me that they either don't know what happened or they know they screwed up and are trying to formulate a PR response to a massive cluster of stupidity.

Thought I'm not surprised EA is absolutely OK with taking our money and then carpet bombing the banzone without cause or reason, or explanation.  This is pretty on par for EA and their customer service.  

Lets just look at it.

Ban 1 game on origins, regardless of whether it was deserved or not, POOF no games on origins work.  Banned from one, banned from all.  Get mad on titanfall and say something and get reported, Tough luck, you can now no longer play games that are entirely unrelated.

Ban people and then force them to rely on a terrible antiquated and faceless support email?  No phone number? I understand not wanting general support to have a phone number, but for bans?  Even EA can't have THAT many bans out there on a daily basis.  One would think when depriving customers of a product they paid for, you would have the respect to allow them a speedy resolution to the problem.  EA's response?  "Ehh... Eff that. Email only."

Allow customers to gift games for friends, a service that is available on hundreds of sites on the internet and their prime competitor, Steam?  Eff that.  We love your money, but don't want to facilitate you spending more, unless it is on microtransactions.  I bet Amazon loves it though.

Not hard to see why EA has been voted worst company a few years now.

Fella granpajo. I make mine your words. Waiting in the dark for more than one week here. No access to titanfall, bf3 nor bf4. 

All this because their system registered two purchases for titanfall, and when one of them was cancelled, i was banned for a supposed "chargeback request".

Live chat gave me those information, and had informed me that they would definately re enable my account, as it was clearly a mistake on their end. 

Now picture me, on vacation from work, and not being able to play my new games ( only managed to play titanfall for a couple of hours before tha ban hammer dropped on me).

From now on, EA will not get any other cent of my cash, and I'm seriouly considering starting a legal request for a full refund of all my games and DLC and complete closure of my account.

I honestly hope i don't need to get there, as it probably won't worth the trouble. So EA, get your **bleep** together and let all of us play what we **bleep** paid for.

Do EA just let AI do the work while they sit back and play games themselves or they or do they just don't care. We paid for the bloody game, and what do we get? Played for 4 hours or less then banned for more than 10 times the amount that I played.

I'm having the same issue. Was banned from BF4 for a credit card dispute LAST SUMMER (a single mistake out of ignorance, I cancelled a double charge for China Rising, BOOM, never allowed to play BF4, BF3, etc. But Dead Space is alright? So naturally I assumed it was just the Battlefield games, like the ACCOUNT DISPUTES ADMIN TOLD ME). I know no one on the forums can help with this. I'm just glad people are having the same terrible experiences. I'm being denied playing what I paid for. After being told it wouldn't affect Titanfall. What a company.