User Agreement

Electronic Arts · agreement dated May 14, 2026 · Official agreement

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Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Do not engage in activity that violates or endangers the privacy or security of others

You may not engage in activity that violates the privacy of others, or that puts the privacy or security of others at risk.

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Do not engage in activity that violates the privacy of others, or puts the privacy or security of others at risk.
Respect the Community

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Do not spam, hack, phish, distribute malware, or damage or disrupt EA, partner or player systems

You may not spam, hack, phish, or generate or distribute malware, or otherwise damage or disrupt the systems of EA, its partners, or its players.

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Do not spam, hack, phish, or generate or distribute malware, or otherwise damage or disrupt the systems of EA, our partners, or our players.
Play Fair

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

EA uses anti-piracy protection measures; trying to circumvent or tamper with them terminates your license

EA uses technical or content protection measures, developed by EA or third-party partners, in EA Services to prevent piracy and the unauthorized copying or use of EA Games. Attempting to circumvent, disable or tamper with these measures terminates the license. The Section 2 license is already described as revocable and conditional on compliance with the Agreement.

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EA utilizes technical or content protection measures, developed by EA or third-party partners, for EA Services in order to prevent piracy and the unauthorized copying or use of EA Games. Attempting to circumvent, disable or tamper with these measures shall terminate this license.
We use specific security software to combat piracy and cheating, and tampering with it can result in losing access to our games.
A. Technical and Content Protection Measures
EA grants you a personal, limited, non-transferable (i.e., not for sharing), revocable and non-exclusive license to use the EA Services to which you have access for your non-commercial use, subject to your compliance with this Agreement.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Termination follows an attempt to circumvent, disable or tamper; success is not required by the wording.

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Security & Safeguards · Procedure

You can uninstall the EA app and PC games at any time, but Punkbuster may stay behind and needs its own uninstaller

Instructions to uninstall the EA app client are on EA's help website. You may uninstall EA PC Games at any time using the EA app interface and deleting any remaining locally saved files. Punkbuster (an anti-cheat component) may remain on your computer after uninstall; to remove it you run a separate executable from evenbalance.com.

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You may uninstall EA PC Games at any time using the EA app interface and deleting any remaining locally saved files. Punkbuster may remain on your computer after uninstall. To uninstall Punkbuster, run the executable at
to uninstall the EA app client can be found on EA’s help website,
We provide instructions so you can uninstall our games and software.

Not stated here

  • The uninstall instructions themselves are on a linked help page that is not supplied.

Security & Safeguards · Context

An "Unauthorized Third-Party Program" is any add-on, mod, hack or trainer EA believes enables cheating or mines data

An Unauthorized Third-Party Program is a third-party program or file (such as an "add-on", "mod", "hack", "trainer" or "cheat") that EA believes (i) enables or facilitates cheating of any type; (ii) allows users to bypass, modify or hack the game interface, environment, protections or experience in any way not expressly authorized by EA; or (iii) intercepts, "mines" or otherwise collects information from or through the game. The test is what EA believes, so mods that EA has not expressly authorized can fall within it.

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, including the use of Unauthorized Third-Party Programs. An Unauthorized Third-Party Program is a third-party program or file (such as an "add-on", "mod", "hack", "trainer", or "cheat") that EA believes (i) enables or facilitates cheating of any type; (ii) allows users to bypass, modify or hack the game interface, environment, protections and/or experience in any way not expressly authorized by EA; or (iii) intercepts, "mines", or otherwise collects information from or through the game.

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