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Report his new account and provide evidence that it is the same player. Search his name with the searchbar on the homepage and click the red report button.

Scavenger

So if a player was banned previously and gets a new account, if you can prove its the same player, the new account will receive a ban as well? even if they have not done anything suspicious with the new account?

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Report his new account and provide evidence that it is the same player. Search his name with the searchbar on the homepage and click the red report button.

Scavenger

So if a player was banned previously and gets a new account, if you can prove its the same player, the new account will receive a ban as well? even if they have not done anything suspicious with the new account?

fa7ar7

Yes, that is true. 

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Report his new account and provide evidence that it is the same player. Search his name with the searchbar on the homepage and click the red report button.

Scavenger

So if a player was banned previously and gets a new account, if you can prove its the same player, the new account will receive a ban as well? even if they have not done anything suspicious with the new account?

fa7ar7

Yes, that is true. 

Scavenger

So a single incident in one account should stop the individual from EVER playing the game again? I think thats a bit extreme isnt it?

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Report his new account and provide evidence that it is the same player. Search his name with the searchbar on the homepage and click the red report button.

Scavenger

So if a player was banned previously and gets a new account, if you can prove its the same player, the new account will receive a ban as well? even if they have not done anything suspicious with the new account?

fa7ar7

Yes, that is true. 

Scavenger

So a single incident in one account should stop the individual from EVER playing the game again? I think thats a bit extreme isnt it?

fa7ar7

I think it is pretty reasonable. Your case is a good example of why it often isn't only a single incident.

If someone is willing to cheat we do not want that person in the game anymore, period. They ruin the game for others only for their own little rush.

EA makes it too easy for cheaters already with their 3 strikes out method of FairFight and Punkbuster only being able to kick. We basically do the work EA should do: punish cheaters, not treating them as customers.

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We approve account linking.
For the reasons already explained here.
What happens is that we often have difficulties linking directly to ip without having the right tools for it.
The account link is a differentiated protection that we have when using the BF4DB services.

Velas-Belial

There is being worked on making the tools we use available to the public. It is still in beta now and only available for staff. More info will follow. 

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Report his new account and provide evidence that it is the same player. Search his name with the searchbar on the homepage and click the red report button.

Scavenger

So if a player was banned previously and gets a new account, if you can prove its the same player, the new account will receive a ban as well? even if they have not done anything suspicious with the new account?

fa7ar7

Yes, that is true. 

Scavenger

So a single incident in one account should stop the individual from EVER playing the game again? I think thats a bit extreme isnt it?

fa7ar7

I think it is pretty reasonable. Your case is a good example of why it often isn't only a single incident.

If someone is willing to cheat we do not want that person in the game anymore, period. They ruin the game for others only for their own little rush.

EA makes it too easy for cheaters already with their 3 strikes out method of FairFight and Punkbuster only being able to kick. We basically do the work EA should do: punish cheaters, not treating them as customers.

Scavenger

so since u ban based on IP, if i go to a LAN party and play, there is a chance other players will get banned for a linked account as well?

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Nope. We have our systems to rule that stuff out.

Scavenger

Because of my old account, my friend brainairc7 got the linked account ban even though i did not touch the banned account for over a month and he hasnt been home for over 2 weeks, so why did he get the ban?

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Nope. We have our systems to rule that stuff out.

Scavenger

Because of my old account, my friend brainairc7 got the linked account ban even though i did not touch the banned account for over a month and he hasnt been home for over 2 weeks, so why did he get the ban?

fa7ar7

Because of a mistake on my side. And sometimes linking is not as easy. But if someone can prove it is not his account you saw that the ban will be overturned. In case of a lanparty it is very obvious that the accounts are not from the same person.

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Nope. We have our systems to rule that stuff out.

Scavenger

Because of my old account, my friend brainairc7 got the linked account ban even though i did not touch the banned account for over a month and he hasnt been home for over 2 weeks, so why did he get the ban?

fa7ar7

Because of a mistake on my side. And sometimes linking is not as easy. But if someone can prove it is not his account you saw that the ban will be overturned. In case of a lanparty it is very obvious that the accounts are not from the same person.

Scavenger

so even if the player buys a new account and has no suspicious activity what so ever and plays clean, he will still receive a ban? is there no way around this?