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Find out how EA handles reports of harassment and inappropriate or illegal content, and what actions we may take to keep players safe.

What happens with reports? What if I break the rules? Can I appeal?

When you sign up for your EA Account, you accept the rules in our User Agreement and Positive Play Charter. These rules help keep our games fair and fun for everyone.

Learn more about how you can play by EA’s rules, and contribute to a positive and inclusive gaming community.

Certain games and services let you share user-generated content (UGC), including usernames, text chat, avatars, or other customizable assets. Always carefully consider what you share and who you share it with.

We take the safety of our players seriously. Learn more about how we moderate the content that players share in our games.

If you’d like to report harassment, cheating, and illegal content in a game, learn how to do that in our article.

Reports are processed by automation tools and sent to our dedicated team for review.

Our team looks into the context of each report before deciding whether it follows our rules and what action to take.

You’ll be updated on the outcome of your report by email, including whether EA took action.

For privacy reasons, we can’t share detailed information about our investigation or what actions we take on another player’s account.

If you get an email from us saying we didn’t take any action on your report, the case will be closed. The email will include information on what to do if you think we should’ve handled it differently.

What counts as harassment or inappropriate content?

Harassment and inappropriate content can be harassing, threatening, bullying, spamming, or any kind of unwanted behavior or content towards another player, EA employee, or representative.

For example, this could mean:

  • Making targeted attacks or engaging in hateful behavior around race, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, heritage, country of origin, etc.
  • Engaging in any form of sexual harassment or unwelcome sexual advances.
  • Sending repeated unwanted messages or harassing members of the EA community; creating a new account solely to continue harassment.
  • Invading another person’s privacy or attempting to identify EA users in the real world, picking fights, griefing, threatening violence, or self-destructive behavior.
  • Harassing EA employees and representatives.
  • Posting inappropriate content or posting content that can be seen as abusive, hateful, harassing, profane, defamatory, threatening, obscene, sexually explicit, infringing, privacy-invasive, vulgar, offensive, indecent, or unlawful.

What counts as illegal content?

Illegal content includes content related to any of the following behaviors that violate the law:

  • hate speech
  • pornography or sexually explicit content
  • incitement to violence or self-harm
  • non-consensual actions
  • threats to public safety.

Always follow the rules of conduct in EA’s User Agreement.

If you don’t play by the rules, we may issue warnings or a temporary suspension. In serious or illegal cases, we may permanently ban your EA Account without warning to protect our players and employees.

If you think we suspended, banned, or locked your account by mistake, you can find out how to submit an appeal in our article.

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