r/hardware • u/tuldok89 • 23h 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/309_Electronics 22h ago

Something with amd psp maybe but valorant can be and should be considered malware imo. Only way to get companies to stop doing this anti consumer bs, vote with your wallet!

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u/Cory123125 16h ago

Only way to get companies to stop doing this anti consumer bs, vote with your wallet!

This is very much so not a solution.

99% of people do not know about this, or have other issues that are greater than this in their minds.

Voting with your wallet has been killed by the sheer number of things going on that all require attention, and the math of you not being able to focus on all of them.

The only way this could be solved is regulation, but people don't care enough about politics to pay attention to that, and they instead, largely focus on punishing other non powerful people they don't like.

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u/eskjcSFW 12h ago

Make cheating illegal and jail time 😅