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       Question: Banned and unable to unsubscribe - is that legal? : SWTOR Discussions
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      | Posted:  January 17th, 2012, 3:12 am 
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            lordpadding 
              
               
               
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                     Hi there,
  EA/Bioware has a strict TOS for us - the customers - but is it legal for EA/Bioware to hinder an unsubscription from their game, in case of a ban?
  I know it is not legal here in Europe why I am curious about it USA/Canada.
  What actions can i take as a customer?
  Thanks in advance for your time and answer. 
                    
                     
                     
                     
                    
                    
                    
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      | Posted:  January 17th, 2012, 3:49 am 
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            cuervogold 
              
               
               
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                     Call them and tell them to unsub you. 
                    
                     
                     
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      | Posted:  January 17th, 2012, 3:52 am 
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            rumham 
              
               
               
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                     Would it be possible to get in touch with your credit card company and ask them to put a block on any payment headed for EA?  Just in case EA Customer Support isn't very helpful. 
                    
                     
                     
                     
                    
                    
                    
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      | Posted:  January 17th, 2012, 4:15 am 
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            phelan1777 
              
               
               
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                     Call in, worked for me. Just tell them u want to unsub. They have to oblige you. 
                    
                     
                     
                     
                    
                    
                    
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      | Posted:  January 17th, 2012, 5:00 am 
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            lordpadding 
              
               
               
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                     Okay, so the conclusion is, that the law is on my side - they have to oblige, even though they hinder it the easy way; through the user interface. Thank you for that information.
  Reason for asking is, that I do not know what will happen to my account cause of the vendor exploit. If they just said that "hey, you got a week ban and loose credits" fine; I would accept that .. but this uncertainty that is going on right now (will they roll me back a level, remove XP, remove etc.) does, that I really don't know if i want to continue the game.
  Anyway, thanks for your time. 
                    
                     
                     
                     
                    
                    
                    
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      | Posted:  January 17th, 2012, 5:44 am 
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                     Just call them and unsubscribe, it's not like you can't subscribe after the weeks ban is up, if the account is still valid. 
                    
                     
                     
                     
                    
                    
                    
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      | Posted:  January 17th, 2012, 5:50 pm 
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            Tault_admin 
              
               
               
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                     You can call them or you can contact your bank who will refund your money since you cant unsubscribe to them now. 
                    
                     
                     
                     
                    
                    
                    
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      | Posted:  January 20th, 2012, 7:36 pm 
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                    You can log on to your account on swtor.com, then manually go to this link; https://account.swtor.com/user/subscription/CancelYou can cancel from there even while banned. Many legitimate users had to use this method because of a bug (ahem...?) on the subscription page on the final free day that prevented people from cancelling subs (when they had 0 free days left but payment hadn't yet been taken, the cancel subscription link vanished - but you could still cancel by manually visiting this link).  
                    
                     
                     
                     
                    
                    
                    
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      | Posted:  January 20th, 2012, 7:41 pm 
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                     Hahaha. A bug... BWtrollface 
                    
                     
                     
                     
                    
                    
                    
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