A Battlefield 6 player took EA to court in Brazil over a cheating ban and says he won his account back

Banned for cheating, no explanation, so he sued. A Battlefield 6 player who goes by Rychadv on Reddit says a Brazilian court has thrown out EA’s bans on his account and ordered the publisher to keep it running, licenses, progression and purchased content included. He says the account is already “back to normal.”

How it got to a courtroom

Per TweakTown, Rychadv came back from a long break to check out Season 4, launched the game and was “greeted with a ban notification.” His appeal came back with no explanation at all; VGTimes says the reply was literally just an ellipsis. EA later told him the ban was for cheating, which he denies.

He happens to be a lawyer, so he represented himself in Brazil’s Juizado Especial Cível, a fast-track court for simpler civil disputes that works a lot like small claims in the US. VGTimes reports the process cost him nothing in fees, and that he submitted Windows data showing no prohibited software or devices on his PC.

What the ruling says

The excerpt he shared names EA Swiss Sàrl as the defendant and confirms an emergency injunction granted earlier in the case. The court declared the bans applied on July 28 and August 30, 2026 null and ordered EA to maintain his Battlefield 6 access. EA did show up and file a defense, but Rychadv says it backed its claims with nothing: “No justification. No evidence. Nothing. Literally nothing.”

He also says EA was ordered to pay compensation plus a fine, adding up to roughly four times the price of the game, though he hasn’t shared the amounts. The court left EA free to ban him again if it can prove a future violation.

Two big caveats. Rychadv hasn’t posted a case number or a link to the court docket, so this rests on his account and the excerpt he shared. And EA hasn’t publicly commented. Battlefield 6 runs on EA’s own Javelin anti-cheat, and EA’s stated position is that it bans only on clear evidence and that players can contest a ban through their penalty history.

PPR take: I’m all for hammering cheaters. Nothing kills a shooter faster. But “trust us” isn’t evidence, and a permanent ban on a game you paid for, with an appeal answered by three dots, is exactly the kind of black box that makes players nervous. One small-claims case in Brazil doesn’t change EA’s rules anywhere else, and we only have one side of the story so far. Still, if a publisher can’t show a court a single piece of proof, that’s worth noticing. Anti-cheat works best when players trust it, and that trust comes from appeals that actually explain something. If EA’s evidence was solid, this was an easy one to win, and it didn’t.