Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gamers are apparently being completely banned from the sport, regardless of doing nothing incorrect.
With the problem apparently attributable to Modern Warfare 2’s Ricochet anti-cheat software program, a number of gamers at the moment are in search of authorized recommendation after buying a sport they’ll not play.
Detailing the problem on his weblog, former Microsoft worker and informal Modern Warfare 2 participant Mike Swanson defined how “Activision’s blind faith in the infallibility of their Ricochet anti-cheat software, combined with a buggy and unstable Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 release, has resulted in faulty, permanent, and unappealable player account bans that prevent users from starting even the single-player game.”
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The weblog goes on to clarify how regardless of the official Modern Warfare 2 subreddit limiting posts about bans, a devoted Discord group has been arrange with over 500 members who’re within the strategy of submitting experiences with the Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission concerning the unfairness of Activision Blizzard’s enterprise practices.
“These bans leave wrongly accused users who paid £70 with no explanation, recourse, or ability to communicate with Activision about their issue,” stated Swanson who himself has been banned for utilizing “unauthorised software and manipulation of game data.” He denies utilizing any type of cheat software program.
“Conveniently, they can’t tell me what caused the ban, and their decision is final. They helpfully recommend that I ‘avoid any of these types of violations’ to keep my account in good standing. As I don’t know what to avoid and did nothing in the first place, I’ve not installed any other Activision software just to be safe.”
He added: “Activision can permanently ban your account for any reason, never tell you why, provide no recourse, and keep your money. This is absolutely user-hostile (if not fraudulent) behaviour.”
Similar experiences have been shared on the Activision Reddit whereas a number of critiques on Steam additionally point out crashes resulting in perma-bans.
Swanson went on to share a message allegedly from Activision Blizzard’s help workers that stated they “understand that bans can be frustrating and sometimes can be raised by Activision for no reason,” earlier than they admitted that they had acquired “several complaints about the same matter,” however nonetheless, nothing has been performed.
As a developer, Swanson then shared some theories about why bugs could also be resulting in bans.
“The frequent crashes and accompanying errors about corrupted files are being incorrectly flagged by the Ricochet anti-cheat software as intentional manipulations made by players. I can imagine the logic that would need to be implemented to avoid false positives like this, and given the number of game crashes, I suspect they have issues with Richochet that they’re unwilling to review,” stated Swanson. “I have offered to allow Activision developers to connect remotely to my PC to debug this issue, but as of this post, I have received no response.”
Earlier this yr, Apex Legends gamers reported a bug surrounding the sport’s anti-cheat software program that additionally led to unfair bans.
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