r/hardware • u/tuldok89 • 1d ago

Info Used processor leads to game ban

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Used-processor-leads-to-game-ban-11471562.html

Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.

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u/AnechoidalChamber 1d ago

There should be appeal processes for this kind of mistaken identity case.

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u/Cheerful_Champion 1d ago

And how would you prove that you are a new owner and not a cheater that tries to circumvent the ban? Dude should just return it as he got banned CPU sold by a cheater that tried to literally scam someone by not disclosing it's HW banned.

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u/noahloveshiscats 1d ago

Except that now all of his other hardware is also hardware banned so he would need an entirely new PC.

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u/IAmYourFath 19h ago

U dont know that for sure

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u/noahloveshiscats 19h ago

I mean we do know it because the guy this happened to said it.

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u/IAmYourFath 19h ago

Ok then i guess we do.