The Twitch streamer and YouTuber Kurt0411 has received a hefty ban from Electronic Arts. They have banned him from all their games and online services. With his personal attacks, the FIFA20 streamer seems to have gone too far.
Who is it about? The streamer Kurt “Kurt0411” Fenech is a FIFA pro and known for his YouTube videos and livestreams. He has frequently made headlines for clashing with EA. Now, the studio Electronic Arts has imposed a severe punishment on him.
Kurt has been banned from all EA games and is no longer allowed to access the online services.
EA publicly announces ban via social media
This is how EA acted: On social channels like Twitter, EA released a statement regarding the streamer on February 24. They wrote that Kurt had already violated EA’s guidelines and threatened employees back in November.
[…] Since then, Kurt has continued to post abusive and threatening messages and videos about EA employees and competitive players on social media, encouraging others to do the same. His messages have crossed a line of decency and led to very personal attacks, violating our terms of service. We will not tolerate threatening behavior.
As a result, today Kurt0411’s EA account is being banned from playing our games and accessing our services due to these serious and repeated violations. […]
Source: Electronic Arts on Twitter
Streamer spat on the EA logo
What is the backstory? The first warnings for the streamer occurred in October 2018 and March 2019. In November 2019, Kurt made headlines with a tournament ban in FIFA 20. EA imposed this ban on the streamer when he grabbed an EA scarf on camera and spat on it. Shortly after, he was upset about an opponent in a “garbage game” by EA and shouted “Fuck You” at the studio.
After this tournament ban, there followed hacker attacks on Twitter accounts of EA employees. It seems that sympathizers of the streamer wanted to take revenge on EA for his ban.
A few days ago, on February 15, Kurt appeared with an alien mask in a “diss track” titled “Little Rats”. In the past, he referred to EA as rats (via Twitter).
In the song, he explains “the alien is here to wipe out the little rats piece by piece”.
Kurt thinks EA wants to keep him down so he doesn’t become a top streamer on Twitch
This is what the streamer says: Kurt responded to EA’s tweet, asking: “Can you give me an example of when I threatened your incompetent employees?”
He further writes on Twitter that he has not said anything he shouldn’t have said. “They didn’t want me to compete in their events because they are afraid I will win the events. Now I am the second biggest streamer of their game, and they are afraid I will surpass their ‘golden boy’. But when all is said and done, we will beat them, believe me. They have money, but we have numbers. Screw them and everyone on their side.”
Who is the golden boy? The by far biggest streamer of FIFA 20 is Castro_1021. He has nearly 2.2 million followers on Twitch.
He is known for playing the FUT mode of FIFA 20. Twitch streamer DrDisrespect once accused him of not playing FIFA but just opening packs.
