A Valorant Player Got Banned Because Of A 2nd Hand Ryzen 7 5800X3D
A Valorant player recently found themselves banned from their favourite game for cheating, despite not having any history of such behaviour in-game. Turns out, the ban wasn’t tied to them, but the second-hand hardware they’d procured. What Happened? Gebrauchte CPU erlaubt kein Valorant byu/After-Cartoonist-196 inPCBaumeister Here’s the story: German Redditor After-Cartoonist-196 says that they…
A Valorant player, u/After-Cartoonist-196, was recently banned from the game due to the use of a second-hand Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU. The player had no prior history of cheating and had no issues with their previous CPU. Upon booting up Valorant, they were immediately banned. Riot Games informed them that the ban was due to the second-hand CPU being blacklisted, as its previous owner had been caught cheating.
Unfortunately, there was nothing Riot Games could do to lift the hardware ban. The anti-cheat program also locked out the gamer’s motherboard, storage, and operating system license, meaning that if they tried to sell any of these components in the future, they would effectively lock out other gamers who play Valorant. This issue is rare, but it is still frustrating for gamers and highlights the potential dangers of buying second-hand hardware.
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