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User who got unfair BAN in “Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2” negotiated directly with HQ? | Game* Spark

Released on October 28,”Call of duty modern warfare 2]it has become a hot topic that a user who has received an unfair account suspension has visited the office of Activision, the developer.

The original Reddit post has since been deleted, but PC Gamer has saved screenshots, where the user was angry that he bought MW2 twice and got banned both times, and contacted directly employee. He said he visited the Activision office in Austin, Texas to talk.

However, he was stopped by a security guard in the car park and could not meet, and only received a message through the security guard saying, “There are not enough staff and it will take several weeks to cancel the unjust ban .”

Of course, there is a possibility that the user in question is not a “fake ban”, but in the same work “RICOCHET Anti-Fraud‘, a powerful anti-cheat system is working, and this may be a response to non-malicious software. Although it is not an official announcement, some media points to the software of devices such as “Logicool G HUB” and “Razer Synapse 3” as one of the causes.

Also, RICOCHET Anti-Cheat says that “all security infrastructure will be active” at the same time as the official release, so there is a possibility that new problems have occurred. Anti-cheating is a big problem in the game industry, but I would like to see more effort put into dealing with false positives.