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Got greeted with this message today. I've been playing Apex on linux for more than a year. Not sure if this could be related? Is this just me?

I've contested the ban and I'm currently waiting for a response from ea support.

UPDATE : Got an email response from EA today. It's basically a generic message saying that my account was associated with "cheating practices" and so they will not remove the ban.

This is absolutely fucking ridiculous! I've been playing this game since 2020 and have 3K+ hours on record, now this shit happens and there's no recourse ? Fuck this company.

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I really love how various services nowadays will just ban you without providing any context why you were banned.

Probably half of the time I am banned I have no idea which rule I violated, which makes me more likely to violate it again, when I wait till I am unbanned or create another account.

[–] helios@social.ggbox.fr 4 points 2 months ago

I did try to create a new account, but it's really annoying because my original EA account is linked to my steam account, and cannot be unlinked. So I would need another steam account as well. Unless I can figure out a way to play without steam, which I'm not sure how to do because of... you guessed it, fucking anti-cheat.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least when it comes to games, they likely don't want to disclose to potential cheaters how they detected them.

It's also a support burden to look into every case of automated bans.

[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thay say it's for security, but it's to avoid accountability.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I'm guessing there are many reasons that they don't disclose that.