I had to figure out the reason for the ban on my own. After investigating, I found no recent account theft, and I’ve barely played lately. According to the tracker, my last multiplayer match was seven months ago—and it was just one Gold-ranked game. The last time I played consistently was in May 2025, when I was pushing for Master rank in Diamond lobbies. In the past six months, I’ve only been in the training range—why would I even cheat there?
I’ve reached Master rank on both mouse-and-keyboard and controller, invested over 4,000 hours, and purchased five heirlooms. Since I’m from China, I’ve spent several times more on this game than players in Europe or the U.S. I even downloaded my EA data and checked my match history—there was no record of a ban, and no further details were provided.
The only possible reason I can think of is that my IP changed due to using a VPN. Is that really worth a permanent ban? Meanwhile, DDoSers and DMA cheaters are probably still running rampant in-game. They don’t care about bans—accounts are disposable to them. It feels like the system is punishing loyal, long-term players who actually support the game. This just doesn’t make any sense.
And finally, I just need to vent—this game has been my favorite since day one. Back when I was a newbie, I'd die right after dropping, over and over all night long, with the server running in slow motion like time was stretched by dozens of times. My friends and I still found it fun. Later, I got stomped by smurfs, ran into countless cheaters, survived server attacks, and put up with all kinds of bugs. Through all of that, I stuck with this game. Even since last year, when I barely played anymore, I’d still come back now and then just to spend time in the firing range. And now this happens. It really, bad
The irony is that in EA's anti-cheat report released last December, they mentioned that for those suspected of cheating, they would first implement a 24-hour ban for observation, and then decide whether to further permanently ban them based on data detection.
However, as many players have experienced, it seems that ordinary players who did not cheat are being permanently banned directly. So, for them, cheaters are preferred over non-cheaters.
That's very "funny".
