Banned from Auction house

Dproud85 said:

Anyone know what to do if your account gets banned and you have done nothing wron. I believe it was banned from me  working on completing the team diamond sets from what I have read madden is doing that to a lot of people attempting to complete the team diamond sets. I’m not some little kid I am an adult and business owner I do spend real money on the game about $2000 a month . if any real person looked at my account it’s easy to see I was only completing the team diamond set for jj watt. what all do I do I have done nothing wrong  I need help

You are one of the test dummies, sorry to say. EA banned a lot of people over Team Diamonds, and it seems like a lot spent money on the game. The AH ban is a test to see if you will still spend money on the game without other access to buy/sell cards. This will help them to make the decision to completely remove the AH next year or not. It also shows them just how far they can screw over players but keep them spending money. 

But if you've been spending 2k a month on this scam, with the way they have been screwing over players all year, then it looks like you got exactly what you've been paying for. So congrats!

People have a fundamental misunderstanding of how business and market economics work. EA has a monopolistic franchise here that clears roughly $1 billion dollar a year in revenue, 80% of which comes from "live services", which is the points/DLC. Only 20% of the revenue comes from actual game sales itself. 

I think it's inarguable that the content has gotten worse and worse year over year. The promos are the same copy / paste, there's been no innovation from a program perspective. They've doubled down on the massive amounts of microtransactions with points offers this year, and curtailed pretty much every NMS / Auction House method of making coins. No trade block, can't sell strats, can't sell team items, can't flip cards, removing 90% of the sets from old promos, removal of power ups, etc.

I'm not here to debate what people spend their money on. Whether it's $2k a month on MUT, OnlyFans, Drugs, Alcohol, etc., this is America (for most of us), they can do what they want. What is again inarguable though, is that these whales are providing the bottom line revenue to EA to continue to give us the same recycled garbage year over year, and they are enabling EA to release a trash product, with no alternative as it's a monopoly. 

Again, it's inarguable that the ONLY way the MUT community will see a better product with more innovative programs and a higher quality release is if EA's bottom line is affected. This means spending less money on live services. What is EA's motivation to do more or improve anything if they are gonna get $800 million a year from the whales simply by doing the bare minimum churning out copy/paste promos? You can absolutely bet that if revenue dipped to $400 million, heads would be rolling at EA and resources would actually be invested in the game to make a better product.

This isn't a judgement on whales, this is simply an explanation of market economics.

Dproud85 said:

Anyone know what to do if your account gets banned and you have done nothing wron. I believe it was banned from me  working on completing the team diamond sets from what I have read madden is doing that to a lot of people attempting to complete the team diamond sets. I’m not some little kid I am an adult and business owner I do spend real money on the game about $2000 a month . if any real person looked at my account it’s easy to see I was only completing the team diamond set for jj watt. what all do I do I have done nothing wrong  I need help

If this is true.  sounds like a lawsuit.

Dproud85 said:

MY BANK ACCOUNT WILL DEFINITELY THANK ME IT WAS A SICK ADDICTION ALWAYS WANTING TO HAVE THE NEWEST AND BEST PLAYERS I DID ALSO GRIND AND DO SOLOS AND CHALLENGE. I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND HOW THEY GET AWAY WITH IT.  WHAT THEY DID SHOULD BE ILLEGAL EXTORTION.  LESSON LEARNED I WILL NEVER SPEND MONEY LIKE THAT ON A GAME AGAIN. I DID SOME RESEARCH AND MY ONLY OPTION IS ARBITRATION. SO I HAVE TO SUE THEM WHICH I FEEL LIKE DOING TO TEACH THEM A  LESSON I ALSO HAVE BEEN LOOKING INTO GETTING A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT HAS ALSO BEEN WRONGED BY EA AND STARTING A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

I think thats the best route to take and the only one that will  attempt to hold EA accountable. Most people just don't have the means to try and get back at EA and make them answer for their blatant screw ups. if you do, then im sure people will join in on that in flocks. It will only take 1  big event(Class action) for them to change the automated system. We have yet to have that happen though because " this is just a game" and people would rather throw it out and say screw EA, then hold them accountable for their BS. I can't blame them either,  id prolly walk away too, but walking away is not whats gonna make change happen.

Way way way too many people have been banned for doing the TD sets. The fact that its still an issue and EA still doesn't seem to care enough to look into it, is legit mind boggling to me. How do they justify this being the system they use, an automated system that looks at the same damn thing the ban was given for, of course its going to see the same  thing EA. EA is literally acting dumb, like this system actually works. We are real people and we deserve real customer service.                                                                                       If it were a physical store having this kind of thing happen, it would go out of business quick from people suing them into the ground.

For the record, ive never been banned but i feel for the people who it happens to. The way EA handles it, is like we are their slaves and they can;t be questioned, it is insanity and needs to be called out.