So, I’ve not played this game on the PC since March. The hacking was too rampant for my liking, so I decided to jump ship to the PS4. I’ve not played this game on that since May.
Had an email from EA today saying that I’ve been banned for a week (168 hours). I’ve now changed my Origin p/w and looked at my stats on the tracker and I apparently played earlier, I didn’t. I’m at work atm so can’t really do anything about this until later. Any idea what I can do?
This isn’t one of those “I got caught” threads. I genuinely haven’t played for months, and have no interest in doing so.
Only thing you can do is change your password and enable two step verification. As you’re not playing it won’t be big deal even if they reset your stats.
EA will not help you with this . Just make sure you have the verification security on . Problem is a weeks suspension is usually followed with a permanent ban . Strange if they hacked your account that they didn’t lock you out of it ? Although similar happened to me years ago .
So there’s nothing I can do, and I’ll end up with a perm ban? I know that I said I have no intention of playing, but that may change. I go through phases with games I can’t put down. Rome 2 Total War is my current pleasure.
It’s been that long since I logged into Origin I couldn’t even remember my p/w. Have now set up the security verification.
You won’t necessarily end up with a permanent ban just by reading what others have put a temporary ban usually but not always result in a permanent ban this is because fairfight gathers data before issuing the bans. Unusually the accounts that are targeted are dormant accounts I’m not 100% sure how the hackers find these dormant accounts but this is what happened with mine I had not used it for 6 months.
Yes it’s probably worth waiting out your week suspension and then seeing what happens when you log into the game again it’s probably no good contacting EA before knowing your account is permanently banned. EA will probably be pretty useless anyway even if the account is banned as it becomes very difficult to actually prove it wasn’t you using the account