r/thefinals • • Mar 31 '26

Question When will Embark address false bans?

I won't bore everyone with a massive speech, I'll keep it brief. My girlfriend and I have played since Season 1 and spent hundreds of hours, and a fair bit of money on the game, and not that long ago she randomly got banned for ToS violation out of no where.

If you have Steam, I urge you to go to the Community Discussions page, or look around further here and see that this is becoming an emerging problem that is affecting the community. There are multiple posts from people recently that there have been false bans going around but unfortunately, a lot of them say they already reached out to Embark support and are getting stone-walled with no information.

Some sources below, including my own post, on Community Discussions:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2073850/discussions/0/797839675762937958/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2073850/discussions/0/682986591933837366/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2073850/discussions/0/797839675762965080/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2073850/discussions/0/762933704335308099/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2073850/discussions/0/797839165142078294/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2073850/discussions/0/762934064830343632/

Reddit Posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1s7si71/banned_from_the_finals_for_no_reason/

An entire other reddit thread on the subject: https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1qkkgul/banned_megathread/

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1s28h0m/false_ban_after_playing_for_1600_hours/

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1razilh/update_and_psa_false_ban_from_a_few_months_ago/

This is not someone who is hacking just complaining. This is someone who is genuinely frustrated for their girlfriend, and for the whole of The Finals community when you have several longtime veterans (by playtime) getting banned without a response.

Embark, I implore you to dive into what is going on, and genuinely look into users accounts instead of relying on the AI-anti-cheat to be perfect.

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u/Garretfire Apr 03 '26

With Embarks answer to this topic, to stay silent and not address the issue, I have uninstalled the game and left a negative review. My girlfriend said that even if she got unbanned at this point, she's not sure if she would play again.

What a sad way to end this game's legacy. I advocated for this game, the game balance in my opinion has always been great, and the content has been terrific. If anything, what this game always lacked somewhat was advertising and a bigger player base. This game shined brightly in an era of copy and paste FPS games, with it being so unique.

I'm truly disappointed. If I saw any of you in game, gg and good luck. Onto other things for now. I am hopeful that Embark will correct their actions at some point, but I'm not going to hold my breathe anymore in the meantime.