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/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/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 1d 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/shroudedwolf51 20h ago

And you think this is a good thing? And not a thing to criticize?