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I've got banned from Apex Legends (social.ggbox.fr)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Got my ban overturned :)

For the troll in here, idk your name I blocked you, the guy "very fluent" in these matters - take this opportunity to humble and educate yourself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately people like that tend to be on the less logical side of things, in addition they also tend to believe themselves to be superior to others, so it's unlikely he'll actually do any research on that matter. It's likely that for him in gaming communities in the past this approach has worked, as those communities typically do not challenge baseless accusations or logical fallacies, not how it works in intelligent communities though, maybe he will learn it eventually, though in my experience on Reddit people like that have no restraint or filter whatsoever, they only stop once they have been hit with the ban hammer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

They certainly are in that less logical camp, that's for sure. And you're right, they have not and will not learn anything from this instance, or similar ones, going forward.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Fuck this company.

They've been awful for many, many years at this point. I've no idea why people keep giving them money and expecting them to not be awful.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected], a Respawn employee responded on reddit and wants a list of user IDs/gamertags for those banned on linux:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/1fi77vs/comment/lnh13kj/?context=8

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks for the heads-up. I messaged them my EA handle.

edit: wow it actually worked! My account is now unbanned!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

You're the goat! Thanks for sharing. I dropped a comment to the respawn employee and a comment on the EA thread linked in the reddit post.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I remember right, about a year ago they were banning a lot of Linux players. It might be happening again.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

EDIT: A Respawn employee on reddit is now asking for the user ID/gamertag of those banned on linux: https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/1fi77vs/comment/lnh13kj/?context=8

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Looks like you're not the only one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1f5kyd1/psa_using_proton_experimental_or_at_least/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ffxfjb/apex_legends_proton_epic_bug_that_do_that/

They've falsely banned linux players before, once in March 2023 and again in August 2023.

I got hit in the Aug 2023 ban, and had my permaban overturned after 1-2 weeks. Expect to have your appeal rejected, we had to make enough of a fuss about it to get a community manager to reach out to the development team to get people unbanned:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/15uqt7w/linux_users_getting_falsely_banned_again/

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Linux-players-getting-banned/td-p/12338557/page/50

I haven't played in 9-10 months since the false positive put a really bad taste in my mouth, so I don't have any datapoints to add for the current state of things, but I wish you the best of luck getting unbanned.

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[–] DudeImMacGyver 12 points 5 days ago

Classic EA

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago

A year and a half back I was sent an email from Apex saying I was banned for hacking. I hadn't played apex for a year and my account hadn't been logged into during that whole time, so if they're false flagging players that don't even have the game installed then who knows that the fuck they're doing in their anti cheat. They actually reversed the ban when I contested it though.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fuck this company.

You're damn right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I have them blocked on Steam. I don't care what comes from them, it's not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There a free cheats for apex on Linux that are undetected by their shitty anti cheat. These Linux still eventually get caught manually so the anti cheat team just sees a lot of Linux users cheat and innocent players get caught in the crossfire b/c of their incompetence.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (14 children)

Why do they care what OS people use? Is it the anti-cheat software that needs Windows?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Yes, it's invasive kernel-level anti-cheat common in competitive multiplayer games now, because cheaters will mod their system that much for the sake of getting around the anti-cheat. Annoying from all sides.

That, and despite many devs being Linux fans, there does seem to be a (false) perception that Linux is the OS of choice for cheaters.

EDIT: Just remember, can't play a game on Linux? It's ALWAYS either the DRM or anti-cheat. Either way, corporate BS that hinders honest paying customers more than the people it's trying to stop.

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