How long does it take to appeal a ban on madden?

SquishySoldier21 said:

Im super confused. What is it against the rules about buying a card for 500k wnd then selling it for 490k? Or am i reading the numbers wrong?

Either way, EA has no business trying to manipulate the market in the first place, all theyve done is further ruin what has become the laughing stock of sports gaming to begin with. Maybe they should fix all the real problems, glitches, missing content etc instead of trying to play communist overlord with the already overinflated market. 🤷

EA basically regards anything outside their normal "ranges" of prices to be suspicious behavior, hence why their automated bots will ban folks. Basically zero warnings. It is considered coin distribution, which is against the Terms of Service. Absolutely bullshit.

This only hurts regular people. Coin sellers have plenty of spare accounts, they don't care about losing one. However, to us normies, well it was kind of the end of the world for me. Was easily a thousand dollar mistake to get banned last year during M24.

I managed to get the first one overturned, by drafting a letter to EA Legal, send it off Certified Mail with Delivery Confirmation, costs about five bucks. Private courier (UPS/FedEx) probably cost $10-15 for similar snail mail service. 🐌 

It is NOT a fast process. Don't even bother wasting your time with EA no-Help. They'll bullshit you and eventually offer to review your account, but surprise they'll find that EA did nothing wrong and the ban remains in place. Funny how that works. They're worthless, will lie to your face to make you go away and not actually try to assist in any way. 

Send the form letter, OP. Good luck, hopefully within 60 days or so you'll be granted a one-time exception.

dont worry man I actually spent $40 for 1.5 mill coins at around 1pm and didn't get banned until 11pm when i received the last 250k. they didn't care about the 1.25mill the extra 250k pushed em over the edge. so now I'm banned from the transfer market entirely for the rest of the year. meanwhile YouTubers and streamers are literally sponsored by these coin sites. EA is an absolute joke. ended up having to make a new account and just start over

i got banned on ps4 from all titles back in the day for working the market so my say is never.

lebronames said:

dont worry man I actually spent $40 for 1.5 mill coins at around 1pm and didn't get banned until 11pm when i received the last 250k. they didn't care about the 1.25mill the extra 250k pushed em over the edge. so now I'm banned from the transfer market entirely for the rest of the year. meanwhile YouTubers and streamers are literally sponsored by these coin sites. EA is an absolute joke. ended up having to make a new account and just start over

I did try and start over with a new account on Xbox but wasn’t able to because my EA account is linked to my banned account. Apparently EA only grants Xbox platform one EA account per console or maybe it’s per Microsoft account, not sure. I am going to send them my dispute letter but is there an easier way to start a new account in the meantime?

Apparently if you buy a card from a friend for 2X what others sell it for, they’ll take all your coins and all their coins. They will ban the person who sold it from the AH.  This happened on one transaction of buying Terrell Bernard for 880K while the cheapest available was around 440K.

This is my first year playing Madden but I’ve really dove in. I have been having so much fun my first year of Madden that I’ve spent $134.99 EVERY week since the start and racked up a ton of coin and got someone decent. got the Johnny Wilson this week. I’ve wanted to engage with friends rather than toxic trolls online, so I talked my friend into buying the game.

Since I was already deep into it, I offered to buy a couple cards off him to get him started. Little did I know this was “Coin distribution”. I wasn’t selling them, just sharing with one other player so that he could field a starter team and save $100 since I already spent over $1,000.

EA banned his account permanently from AH and took both our coins. Total over 8 million coin.  This doesn’t seem fair.  I don’t consider what I did cheating, but by the letter of the TOS, there’s no tolerance or understanding.  No warnings.

I was denied any reconsideration from TOS. 

 It’s a blessing in disguise. I didn’t know I was over $1K spent until I checked my bank trying to stop payment on my credit card.  I learned the hard way, that they can and will punish you.  I am committed not to spent another dime on this game or any future accounts.  They lost a good customer/enlightened me.  I am enjoying the challenge of “no spending” and using my spite as positive motivation.  My 49ers TT is still really good. And I’m getting better because I need to. I don’t have my wallet to fall back on. I just unlocked Johnny Wilson and climbing ranked again.  CJ2K for Christmas.