This is one of the few areas where the official answer is the correct one and the forum answer is not.

Short answer

Possible, once, through official support — and irreversible afterwards.

  • Never buy, sell or share an account.
  • Use the official support form rather than a forum thread.
  • Read the whole sequence once before doing the first step.

Siege rewards knowing the building more than knowing the gun, which is why map knowledge outranks aim here. Name changes and cooldowns are enforced per-account, not per-game. Bought and shared accounts are recoverable by the original owner, which is exactly how those stories end.

Limits and cooldowns

Half the pages on this topic were written for a build that no longer exists, which is why they stop matching what you see. Appeals work when there is a genuine mistake, and only then. Two-factor authentication is the single change that prevents most account problems. Nothing here assumes a particular playstyle beyond wanting the thing to work.

Linked accounts inherit restrictions from each other more often than people expect. Support responds slowly and correctly, which is still faster than a wrong fix. What follows assumes you are on a current install and have not modified it.

Why shortcuts end badly

Region locks on accounts are harder to undo than region locks on purchases. The short version is near the top on purpose; the reasoning is there if you want to know why. It helps to understand why a step exists, because then you can adapt it when your situation is slightly different.

  • Keep the original purchase receipt.
  • Check the cooldown before assuming a change failed.
  • Check the version you are actually running before assuming anything is broken.
  • Unlink anything you no longer use.
  • Enable two-factor authentication before anything else.
  • If a menu path does not exist for you, your build is older or newer than the one described.

If the account is already restricted

The community wisdom on this is roughly half right, and the half that is wrong costs the most time. A single check up front replaces a lot of guessing later. Where something depends on your platform or region, that is called out rather than glossed over. If you are coming to this after a long break, the terminology has probably moved on.

If a step reads as obvious, do it anyway — the obvious ones are the ones people skip and then wonder about. If your result differs from what is described here, note what is different first rather than starting over. Everything below is framed around the current state of Rainbow Six Siege rather than a launch-week impression.

What the rules actually say

There is usually a fast way and a reliable way, and it is worth knowing which one you are choosing. Most of the disagreement you will find online is two people describing different builds. There is no hidden trick here that the game is keeping from you.

The developers have changed their mind about this at least once, which explains the older advice. Rainbow Six Siege is not shy about hiding useful information two menus deep, so some of this is simply knowing where to look. Patch notes move numbers around constantly; the shape of the answer holds even when a specific value shifts.

Doing it through official channels

Where two approaches both work, the one with fewer moving parts is the one to keep. Do the cheap check before the expensive one — that ordering alone saves most of the frustration. Treat anything stated without a version number as provisional.

Where people go wrong

  • Assuming a guide from an older season still describes the current version.
  • Downloading a helper tool for something the game already does in its own menu.
  • Rushing the last step, which is usually the one with the actual requirement in it.
  • Grinding a method that was patched months ago because a thread still ranks well.

Siege FAQ

What if none of this works for me?

Then something in your setup differs from the assumption — version, region or platform. Check those three before anything else.

Does this work the same on console and PC?

The logic is identical. Menu paths and button prompts differ, and any real difference is flagged above.

How long does this take?

Minutes if it goes cleanly, an evening if you hit the edge case in the caveats list. Neither is unusual.

Can a ban be appealed?

Genuine mistakes get reversed. Appeals against a correct ban do not, regardless of how they are worded.

Bookmark it if you like, but honestly, once you have done it once you will not need to come back.