There’s no shortage of loud personalities in any video game with a healthy esports scene, but few players are as notorious as French FIFA pro Kurt ‘Kurt0411’ Fenech, a player who has become infamous for rants and threats directed at EA Games. Fenech earned a level of notoriety last year when he received a lifetime ban from FIFA for “abusive, harassing, and vulgar” behaviour that crossed the line when several of his fans hacked EA employee accounts and left messages in support of Fenech.
Since then, Fenech has been very very angry with EA, posting new videos where he criticises the company and the game. EA has had enough, and have decided to simply ban Fenech for life from every single one of their products. “In November 2019, after a series of Code of Conduct violations as part of the EA SPORTS FIFA Global Series in which he threatened employees and other players, Kurt0411 was banned from competing or attending any EA SPORTS FIFA 20 Global Series events or future competitions,” EA explained in an official tweet.
Since that time, Kurt has continued to post abusive and threatening messages and videos about EA employees and competitive players on social media and he has encouraged others to do the same. His messages have crossed a line of decency into very personal attacks and breach our Terms of Service. We will not tolerate threatening behaviour. As a result, today Kurt0411’s EA account will be banned from playing our games and accessing our services due to these serious and repeated violations.
We build games and communities for players to have fun. Creating a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone without fear of harassment or abuse is a vital part of that. Our Terms of Service include a Code of Conduct that we ask players to abide by to keep our communities healthy and safe. We have an ongoing focus to create communities where everyone feels safe and respected, including in-game toxicity reporting tools as well as new moderation tools. And, we will continue to add more features.
A harsh reaction? Perhaps, but at the same time Fenech has cultivated a personality of hate against EA over the last couple of months, feeding the “angry gamer” narrative of over the top outbursts such as spitting on an EA Sports scarf during one expletive-laden rant:
The moral of the story then, is that perhaps its not wise to shit all over the hand that feeds you.
Last Updated: February 25, 2020
Hammersteyn
February 25, 2020 at 10:21
Thank goodness EA doesn’t feed me then.
Guz
February 25, 2020 at 10:38
Wow what a douche
Yozzie
February 25, 2020 at 10:09
So if Chad over here is “infamous” for being a dick, why don’t we keep it that way and not give him free views to whatever he is gonna stream next.
Llama In The Rift
February 25, 2020 at 15:52
Kurt0411 was also one of the first who called out EA on their card packs and so on in FIFA, people never had a issue with him, yeah he’s a douche but so are the Paul brothers and plenty more and hey they get the views…..EA is not liking that he has so many viewers he can influence to stop supporting all these in game purchases. Shity human being working for shity company obsessed with greed.
MaSeKind
February 25, 2020 at 13:17
They do realise that it is possible to create a new account and start all over again right?
But anyway, do you have to be an esports player to be banned by EA? I’d love to have such a nice personal statement tweeted about me. Damn famous people always get everything, even when they fuck up.
WickedMONK3Y
February 25, 2020 at 14:25
They can also hardware ban and IP ban him but that might be next… I have watched a few of his streams and youtube vids and wow that guy is toxic…
MaSeKind
February 25, 2020 at 14:25
Not like it’s difficult to get around those either.
Never heard of him before this but apparently he was 2nd biggest FIFA streamer? Or that’s what I heard. If that’s true it’s very interesting that he’s so big but also toxic. Either that means he’s entertainingly toxic so people watch him in anyway or to a large crowd he’s not toxic.
WickedMONK3Y
February 25, 2020 at 14:25
They can also hardware ban and IP ban him but that might be next… I have watched a few of his streams and youtube vids and wow that guy is toxic…