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@SupermansCousin_PSN if you get someone that will actually listen, I'd love to hear from them as well. I just think from experience and hearing from other people that it's just not going to happen. There are a couple of good guys on here that interact, but I think it was a bulk ban and anyone that in anyway transacted with a bot or 3rd party seller, knowingly or not, has been banned.

I do have access to view the market from the companion app and sort items, and there are still plenty of equipment items selling for 25k that you can buy for 12-15k... still allowing for the profit on the stubs.

@theBlindRhino_PSN I occasionally fire up 25, but I hadn't touched CFB27 since I got it in July, so that's what I am doing.

No desire to start over, unfortunately.

@SupermansCousin_PSN they won't review it. You'll simply get a canned response with a date and item, which it sounds like you received... that's pretty much the end of it. At least it has been for me. Welcome to the caught in the botfire club.

@Sarge1387_PSN I have already said my piece to SDS. I agree with you, I definitely got caught up in other stub transfers with the equipment flipping. I hold out zero hope that anything will change and I am cool with it... I can get my baseball fix from 25 if needed.

Nothing to get all fired up and aggressive about, I love playing the game but honestly, the real victim here is my wife... her adult babysitter got taken away!

@theBlindRhino_PSN I can still play 25... my understanding is the ban is 26 only.

@theBlindRhino_PSN it's facts. Glad you didn't get banned.

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS the 2-week ban was enough to make me stop. It was like a detox from it because it was a rush doing the transactions. Never messed around with anything like that again.

Didn't do the WBC exploit, didn't transfer a stub between a second account because I only have one account, didn't buy from a third party, and am adult enough to admit if I did any of this stuff because it's a video game, not life or death.

Would I like to have my account restored? Sure. Do I think that I did anything wrong? No, this entire issue was related to a lack of control on bots and 3rd party sellers, which I didn't even know either existed until this year as it's only my second on DD.

People won't have their accounts restored because doing so will show how truly inept SDS is, and I really haven't had anything bad to say about them until now. I haven't been around long enough as a DD player to compare to the "glory" years that the long time vets speak of, but this being done without a warning is worse than EA, which speaks volumes.

Just got the same canned reply... throw in a date and equipment item and say too bad.

Joe and Manu are good guys on here but I have basically been told by both that there's nothing they can do.

The one time I bought 3rd party anything was NHL20, at least EA Sports gave a warning and 2 week suspension from the market. At least they handled it with decency.

Who would have thought, EA looking better at something.

@XxViDaLxX11_PSN you're welcome. I am waiting to hear back, myself.

@XxViDaLxX11_PSN that's exactly what happened. Happened to me and a lot of others. File a ticket through support, good luck.

@DrBear100_PSN I have a ticket in with them. I don't necessarily expect anything to come from it because if any accounts get restored it will make them look like they had no idea what they were doing. The bots still exist, the Inflated prices on equipment and sponsorship items is still there, so really, what was accomplished? Most people banned have moved to alt accounts and still doing stub transfers or at least talking about it online.

The people that were banned should have been the ones that were truly involved in 3rd party stub buying. I never bought a single stub 3rd party and assuming that I, along with a lot of other people, got banned because we were flipping cards on the MLBTS platform. The lack of bot control by SDS is the problem and after the bans, it's still going on, so the ultimate problem was people flipping for stubs and not paying $500 to SDS in order to buy enough stubs to get the gatekeeper cards.

It was their easy solution to make it look like they did something, when in reality, they alienated a large part of the fan base.

@markemark_NSW happy for you. I have some faith that it will get worked out... until then, it's college football for me.

@markemark_NSW that's how I found out that I was. I saw other people talking about it and I checked the app and my inventory was gone, stubs gone, squads gone, etc...

@Oliver230230230_PSN @sarge1387_psn the majority of people that I see out there saying they were banned were people that didn't buy stubs from a third-party site, but people that made their stubs from flipping, presumably jumping in on the equipment, sponsorships, and players that would suddenly be selling for crazy amounts. That's how I made mine. I sent in a ticket and have another message sent through email directly, but I honestly don't know or think that I will hear anything anytime soon... which sucks. Was looking forward to the Ralphy Velazquez Pipeline card today.

@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN if you're banned, you will see no stubs in the app and when you're in the marketplace, if you tap on a card, it will give you an error.

No problem... I have played The Show for years... I switched from XBOX to PS because the XBOX lost their 2K baseball game... but this is only my second year of DD and my first year on these forums. If I bought 3rd party stubs and got banned, I would own it... it happened years ago with NHL on EA Sports, but that was for two weeks and at that point, I never wend 3rd party ever again.

I do hope that's the case. I have zero issues with them cracking down on it and if my ban is not reversed because I flipped cards when the bots were running the market, so I am certain I was in with the bot transfers, then I have to accept that, I guess... We'll see what happens.

I saw the third party sites and then read about how they work and passed because I wasn't giving access to my account to anyone. At that point, I would just flip my cards and then all of the equipment stuff was going on, so I would get stubs that way... so, I figure I got pulled into it that way... if nothing happens and the ban continues, I have CFB and Madden to tryout since I have been enjoying DD on The Show. We'll see, I guess.