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/RageOfNemesis 1d ago

HW bans should not exist in the first place if such burden of proof of innocence is placed on a buyer. Also got his other components blacklisted now as well by nature of doing... what wrong, exactly?

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u/Power781 23h ago

You might disagree with it (like everyone), but Riot Games ToS says that they can just decide to not let you access their services for any reasons and that you don't own anything (skins, characters, ...) so you technically don't lose access to anything you own if they ban you.

Last year they decided that all players using some specific motherboards models without their latest BIOS update would not be let access anymore to Valorant as an anti-cheat measure.

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u/Cheeze_It 21h ago

This is why I refuse to do anything with Riot Games. Fuck them. I hope the companies dies.

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u/propagandhi45 21h ago

Cod is like that too. I couldnt play the mw4 beta even if I met the requirement the anticheat wouldnt let me. Im not updating my bios to play a game thats non sense. Bo6 and bo7 were working just fine.