Larry, here's a hot take for you: in Dead by Daylight, the devs have threatened to ban players that target other players who wear the Pride flag in-game. The game is a slasher game, so how does you as the killer implicitly target someone?
Shoutouts to the people who got banned from Smash for 3DS online for using Peach, tricking the game into thinking they were hacking items into for glory thanks to Turnip
@@JoshuaJacobs83 Peach’s down b, Turnip (technically called Vegetable but everyone just says Turnip) has a very low chance of pulling a Mr. Saturn or a Bob-Omb. For Glory normally doesn’t have items spawn, but if you’re using Peach you can still get the Mr. Saturn/Bob-Omb because that’s just how Turnip works. At launch, this confused the game, and picking Peach had a chance of banning the player from online forever.
The Red Dead treasure hack had pretty much the same issue on GTA online. Hackers were dropping large sums of money on player and teleporting them into walls so they couldn't move. Upon loading back into the online servers you would be banned for acquiring an impossible sum of money. Myself and 3 of my friends had this happen to us and even provided video proof of it happening when we submitted our ticket. All 3 of us were told by the help department rep that we could buy another copy for a separate account to play on the servers again, which ended up be a lie because our ips were banned. Rockstar simply doesn't care
What's even worst about the gold chests in RDR2 is that it not the first time Rockstar banned innocent people for NOTHING. Rockstar did the EXACT SAME STUPID SHIT in GTA 5 when hackers would spawn bags of money and give it to other players. Both the hacker AND the innocent by stander would get banned. You would think that Rockstar would have gotten off their SORRY, LAZY ASSES and learned their lesson, BUT OF COURSE NOT, that would mean they would have to actually put in real work, and thy cant have that now can they. But hey, when GTA 5 online first came out, my and my friends used money glitches to earn something around 300 MILLION dollars each in about 30 mins or so, which at that time was a LOT and would allow you to buy everything in the game. Other people were getting banned for it, but me and my friends never did.
I hate to be that guys to report to the boss that hacker are spawning bears with the multiple naked women shooting and using the instant ban chest as their free power to ban one random players. Now I need to find these live steam of players banning players.
@@CreativeWM_Personal The Linux version of Steam uses "Proton", a compatibility layer for playing Windows games natively. Easy Anti Cheat detects Proton as cheat software.
When I read the title card "banned for complaining about a character" and then saw Street Fighter gameplay, the first thing that came to mind was "did DSP make it into this list?"
@@caucasoidape8838 I remember case with girl helping Jason to win because he was her friend. And guy who was unsatisfied with that behavior insulted the girl. And IIRC she had another friend who is moderator/game developer. And since game record your voice chat (or it was text one?) ban was "justified"
another one related to twitch happened in PUBG, someone killed a streamer (who was out in the open so they were asking for it), and the person who killed the streamer got banned for stream sniping, except they didn't even know they were a streamer.
I remember when kids would get banned from Overwatch just for playing a character in competitive and not switching. What made it extremely dumb was that people didn’t even have to speak or behave toxicly to get reported (and subsequently banned) for playing who they wanted.
Ironically, there was also a streamer who reported another player for stream sniping him and throwing the matches as Symmetra. Instead, he got a ban for abusing the report system... oh joy.
I had a week ban once becauae I didnt play orisa well enough in comp ..... I didnt even want to play her because I play support and just filled tank cause we didn't have shields
@@PopeFireTheStarfireGod Happens a lot in League of Legends and DOTA too. you have a bad game and you get reported for being a troll player and banned,
@@DerpySnake There is a difference between using a voiceline, and using it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
naked players in Dark Souls A) Don't give two shits about meta, B) have more time on the game than you and your extended family combined, and C) give you every damn reason to be afraid.
I know this wasn’t a perma-ban but Blitzchung being banned for supporting the hong kong protests was stupid. Activision/blizzard didn’t want to dare risk losing that sweet, sweet chinese profit because of those pesky human rights…
@@blooperreloaded5526 I think it says even more about the state of the company that they can't keep up their main money maker. Are they just gonna leech from Call of Duty now? If so, how long before Activision kicks them to the curb and they get assimilated into Tencent?
@@phoenixomega3641 I mean Blizzard is already a shell of what it once was, assimilating it into Tencent will pretty much be the final nail in their coffin.
No that’d give Neverrealm an excuse to ban him on grounds of bringing up an outside ip.. this way it was completely baseless and total incompetence on Neversoft’s part. *edited so please stop fussing*
It baffles me how so many people continue to support them after that bullshit. Any of these companies. How does anybody buy Nestle stuff any more? People are idiots
To be honest a game show cheated Larry out of a win when they gave him a right-handed control setup. It would be cool to see Mitchell get banned from Pac-Man but alas he can only get banned from posting high scores and taking credit for others high scores.
Anyone: The Chinese Government is commiting human rights violations. Blizzard: Welp, looks like you can't play this $60 game you paid for. Nope, no refunds.
Anyone: The Chinese Government is commiting human rights violations. ACTIVISIONblizzard: Welp, looks like you can't play this $60 game you paid for. Nope, no refunds. correction
Last game I actually played was Destiny 1. After 3 times of trying to level up my character starting out only to assholes that were literally at level 14 I actually got into it. Then I tried GTA online and couldn't even get passed the very 1st mission because some online player kept killing me. So I just said F this online crap and just stuck with playing multiplayer with friends.
I hate that, back in the 00s I had lots of fun playing online with friends and strangers, but now... it is just with friends in private games if at all.
I know Larry doesn't really cover browser games on this channel, but this list reminds me a lot of something that happened in Neopets a long time ago. The system in charge of restocking the main shops screwed something up and ended up stocking a handful of Super Attack Peas in the food shop. Super Attack Peas were an extremely rare and powerful weapon, and they ended up going into one of the shops that sells common cheap food items. (Presumably the restocking algorithm picked the item because it had "pea" in the name and didn't bother to check item type or rarity before sending it along.) Quite a few users bought them before they were removed from the shop, and what did staff do? Apologize for the error and let the lucky few keep their peas? Delete all instances of the item bought during the offending timeframe? No, they just blanket banned everyone who bought one! People were pissed off, naturally; the userbase got punished for a staff fuckup. And then there were the complaints of people getting banned from the Neoboards for saying the word "horn". Not even "horny", just "horn". How the hell are you supposed to do a Uni RP without using the word "horn"?
It always baffles me how common it is for social games to ban common words. I've seen so many conversations derail into "Wait what" when some random, insignificant word gets filtered for no apparent reason.
I've got a curious case of being banned myself. It was way back while playing Halo 3 on the 360, where I joined up with some random guys in matchmaking. We weren't really playing the game as much as we were helping each other unlock achievements. As such I connected 3 more controllers and used the guest account to allow these temporal profiles to join the online game. Everything went well for a while, until I suddenly got the message I was banned for a month for XP boosting. So far, nothing too weird. However, I did not get just one ban warning. No, I got about ten messages telling me I got banned, per active account. Meaning ten bans for my actual profile, and thirty for the guest accounts. This was weird enough already, and a bit unsettling. But weirder still, despite being "banned" I was still able to play online with the guys, discussing the fact I got banned while playing matchmaking... If that wasn't weird enough. The next day, I booted up my console, started Halo 3, went to the matchmaking lobby, and sure enough there was a message informing me I was banned. And with this, I was unable to start the search for an online game. But, here's the kicker, the second I changed playlist, no matter the game type, I was able to play online once more. Obviously I wasn't going to try my luck and gain a perma ban, and just stayed away from online matchmaking for that time, but the fact I was banned without actually being banned is, to this day, the weirdest thing that has happened to me as far as getting the ban hammer is concerned. Maybe the system got confused for banning three guest profiles, or maybe something else was at play there. Either way, it was a strange and confusing thing that had happened, and I haven't heard of it happening to anyone else.
That happened to me back in 2007. me and a friend did that so we would be in a match with 8 people, but just us 2 controlling the characters. We both received temporary bans as well
I was perma banned from smite a few years back for downloading a skyrim mod. Like an actual mod for skyrim, not at all related to smite. Queued for a match while it was downloading and was immediately banned for "using cheating software" with no chance for repeal.
I feel for you... Ban Appealment system is going out, because why bother with customer support, when you can just get rid of the customer? They got their increased numbers and stats, for another "glorious" staff meeting saying everything is A-OK! :P
@@mire873 yeah that's probably exactly what happened. I emailed their support and explained everything and just got the copy paste "We will never appeal a cheating ban for any reason."
@@mire873 More common than you know, much like a single russian warframe player who got perma banned for, get this, having an entire different russian guild report him. Did they check the claims? not at all, not a SINGLE microsecond was spent. When you can spam-report a single player into banishment from the game.. you know something is really fucking wrong with Game Companies, and that's they should just remove the Game out of the name. They've become pure and simple companies, intent on a single goal... milk your dead dessicated dried up husk of cow even more, beating the absolute fuck out of the bones of the horse that you came in on, and absolutely mercilessly rawdawg your behind until they can see straight through you, for that extra dollar. Fuck.. that's why there's sales on MMO's "ingame money" from time to time, because that's ALL they care about.
@@Wepospalient After Hi-Rez did Tribes Ascend so dirty paired with them never appealing a cheating ban in their cash cow SMITE... Yeah they can go screw themselves,
@@Crueltea Lucky you then...for me, depends on who I use at the time and if the other person is being overly aggro OR overly spammy. Nowadays Sheeva might not be AS bad to face as she used to be then due to her being patched, but I never had the best luck facing her regardless.
Oh hey, RDR2. I got a month long ban and my character deleted for that exact reason. Not just a rollback - a straight ban and deletion. I stopped playing after that.
Well, it happened that I received an email warning from Sony that I broke the On-Line rules of Singstar while I was playing InFamous 2, a single player game with no online interactions what-so-ever, also I used to play PS3 without being connected to the internet (having bad Internet connection and hating being contacted while playing my single player games). Never got banned (so far) but hey, weird things happen.
Fun fact, Bethesda also banned people from fallout 76 for having (legitimate) copy's of the best gear in the game. It was part of the overreaction to the dev room exploit.
It's incompetent design to have a dev room like that in the game anyway, I'd say. Sure, it can be convenient before launch, but you should remove it later. Just give devs the ability to spawn items. Heck, you can still have a dev room where that's the only place it is possible. And, you know, run it on a separate server for testing.
They also permabanned some players who found, privately tested, and let them quietly know of additional exploits that existed, so they could patch them out before they became public knowledge. They banned them for, get this, exploiting. Just so this sinks in: They banned players for helping them find and fix exploits.
@@crosstie417 I have no idea. Apparently the system thought he was cheating because it thought he was using items in For Glory. He wasn't tho, it was just Peach's down B.
I thought with the Pokemon footage, you were going to mention how people were banned in Sword and Shield from 'disconnection' and many of the people perm banned were either because of natural internet disconnections, i.e. from the provider or a power outage or banned just because.
Honestly i prefer fighting against bots rather than people, much less stressful, and i (usually) get more control over how hard they kick my ass Too bad most games either don't have bots at all, or have shitty or otherwise very very limited bots This is why i still go back to games like Unreal Tournament '99, Where the AI can actually be your equal, which is the gold standard i figure all multiplayer games should be able to achieve
@@spartanwar1185 Very little AAA games provide bots or local multiplayer (either co-op or competitive) because the people at the top only care about maximizing their profit since most shareholders only care about maximizing their investment. If they provided bots, that's an option for one to try out the multiplayer without anyone else having to buy the game, so one might pester their friends and/or family to buy the game as well so they can play together, same with local multiplayer, and that translates into a loss of profit. From what I've seen and heard, these companies eliminate all other options except for the ones that make them more $$$ these days.
This is the future I fear the most. Way too many things are already way too dependent on algorithms that already don't work properly and this is what they want for the future hahaha what a joke. This is why if everything becomes an online only game I'm out of gaming. I'm not going to invest in something I can lose at the drop of a hat because a stupid AI decides what I'm doing is not right for some random reason or another.
I feel that. I've had friends look at my RuneScape bank in screenshots and be like, "You need to clean that junk outta there!" Then I'm like, "But what if I suddenly need 255,879 Vials of Water?! You don't know!"
Sometimes in shooters i end up with more ammo than usual because of the way i shoot, that of course being very ammo efficiently So it's pretty much a barrier invalidating my fundamental way of playing Good thing i don't play fuckall 76 (I have mad respect to people who can legitimately tolerate that busted game, though i think they should find something more worthwhile imo)
@@spartanwar1185 Actually Fallout 76 sorted out most of the early issues shown quickly. I got it only a couple of weeks after launch and experienced none of the issues Larry highlighted. He was also spread some falsehoods that major sites like Kotaku spread on the story, especially the bans for graphics mods. Although really modding an online game? Yeah expect to be banned. Still with the advent of Wastelanders, Steel Dawn, and Steel Reign, Fallout 76 has become a pretty good game. With a future expansion to The Pitt coming, it looks to keep getting better too.
Add this larry: How about getting banned for saying a similar word to the N-word, when it's a word that has been used for centuries for that country. Even when phonetically it doesn't sound the same.
Yes, its actually all of those - spanish word for black - The informal way of saying "No" in Indonesia - Saying a certain countries name - Saying the word "Run away" in japanese.
9:15 If I was one of those announcers, I would have 100% been honest about what happened. It may go against some people's narrative that now is "the worst time in the world", but someone who is honest and does the right thing in this type of situation would find tons of support - and probably even rake in a good bit of money on gofundme
I got permanently banned on smite for exploiting an exploit that I had reported and told them exactly how it was performed and they did nothing about. So I decided to make them notice it. It was a glitch that basically instagibbed everyone you touched and made you nearly immortal. I used it in about 20 games in a row. I woke up the next day and my account was permanently banned and the glitch was patched out. They should have thanked me for bug testing and bringing it to their attention.
Odds are one of the devs really liked Shiva and felt that when she was being attacked they took it personally. That would also explain why Shiva was basically ham fisted into the game after a while.
If Billy the Cheat does look at this, then I’ll have him know this: I edited this video, I put that picture there; so if Billy wants to come after anyone - he can come after me and I’ll tell him to sod off (from the safety of England not being in the United States!)
@@dodgykebaab Additional message for GBF in the unlikely event he is reading this: You're an adult that is suing people because they don't believe you legitimately got a high score in a videogame that one time because no evidence exists. Grow up, man. And tell Togers to do the same.
Seeing that complaining about a character entry makes me wonder how much of a PR disaster there would be if people got banned off Smash Ultimate’s online for complaining about Byleth or if a guy got banned from a tournament by playing as Byleth with the name of TooMuchFE.
Also some people were banned online in Red Dead Redemption over attacking NPCs in the game! How is it a crime to just killing NPCs in the game, even though you’re not attacking the other players!
I got perma banned from Shin Megami Tensei Imagine because I stopped playing. When I asked if they could unban my account due to inactivity they said no because they didn’t trust me to not go inactive in the game again and said that inactivity was a perma ban offense.
I got a 24 hour ban for saying, in an Amiga group on FaceBook "How appropriate, you fight like a cow". Yup, someone in jest gave me a Monkey Island insult, and the reply was enough for Zuckertits to shove me in jail. Twonk.
I absolutely do not know why, but the more cheeky and affectionate and drawn out the "hello you~" at the start of a Fact Hunt episode, the more serotonin my body produces. I just can't help smiling every time. And that's on top of my enjoyment of the actual episodes themselves! Thank you for the tiny nuggets of joy, Larry!
Hi! Thanks so much for the captions, Larry! Fact Hunt is absolutely my favorite thing on RU-vid, and it shows enormous generosity of spirit that you take the time to caption these for those of us who need it. Thank you!
Ah yes, two things I love about this already: The Peter Molyneux dig about a room of Peter Molyneux's...and the Sheeva stomp being SO frustrating to face off against in MK11 even LARRY had to mention SOMETHING about it. I believe by later patches, Sheeva's stomp NO LONGER ends up on the opponent's head so often and they nerfed her bulkiness slightly, which comes from someone who's played MK11. Still, Sheeva is a char I DON'T like facing off against anyway, since all they did in MK11 was make it SLIGHTLY harder to spam with her...which is good enough to HAVE a chance at winning, but still frustrating all the same. Anyway, thanks Larry for covering the Sheeva stomp fiasco! I knew it couldn't be just me, but man is it a bad reminder of the fact the Sheeva stomp fiasco got SO out of control before they did anything about it.
My favorite ban was getting banned from overwatch for reporting a serious exploit I found an exploit in the matchmaking system, that could be used to get a handicap in competitive... Went and reported it though the proper channels.. 2 days later I log on to see I've been banned, with no clue as to why..so I contacted customer service to find out why and seek an appeal. Customer service says " you were banned for encouraging exploitation of matchmaking, due to the nature of this ban I cannot lift it, however only you account was banned so your welcome to make another if you wish to keep playing(on pc for context)" so basically they were saying. "Yea we know you were unfairly banned, so buy the game again if you want to play" So long story short, I was banned because bug reporting is done on a public forum.. people saw my post and started using it..
That reminds me of the time I posted on the Twitch chat of a streamer, that I feared the anime videos she put on before the stream would get her DMCA'd. The mod that day got so furious for that one comment that I remain permabanned from chat to this date
There should really be a law that makes it so you can't get banned from games and services you payed for unless you are spamming or hacking this is basically scamming or theft.
8:02 Man, KoF XIII is such a beautiful, amazing game, especially the Steam version. I remember I was playing the PS3 version and the Steam version and I was switching between Input 1 and 2 - 1 was the PC and Input 2 was the PS3 and there was a dramatic difference in graphic quality. It was a lot clearer than the console version. I remember looking for a comparison video years ago but couldnt find one. I wanted to make sure it wasnt something with my setup, or just something on my end.
I'm sad this didn't include the people banned from Temtem for such reasons as: Playing the game too much, playing partied up with a friend, trading tems using the in game trading system and leaving negative reviews on steam.
10:36 I don't get it, isn't a game client supposed to be the graphics engine when playing online? How does someone hack a nude mode onto someone else's client? ...Or do those files exist in the official client?
Being too good? I saw that coming. Had a friend who mained Oni from Dead By Daylight get booted against a developer playing as a survivor because they forgot Bloody Glove is an Oni Ultra-Rare Add-on that allowed crazy shenanigans to find survivors and was banned because the developer didn't know about how it worked... This happened twice.
I once got permabanned from TF2 for being in a TF2 hat group that had one scammer in it. (Edit, it was like 2011 when trading was still new in the game) Back when group invites existed on Steam, I was random invited to an "unusual hat club" - later when playing the game it constantly kicked me out of every TF2 server saying im permabanned from the game. Had to go to the forums that manages the bans just to find my account listed there among "group of individuals impersonating unusual hat club". I legit had to register there and write I just random joined it and they legit wanted me to prove to them that I'm not a scammer ... kind of was just been deemed guilty by association. Had to add a Steam Mod and go through a lot to get back to being unbanned.
RockStar originally (and possibly still does) the same thing with GTA Online. Before getting it, the only criticism I heard of the game was that you could get banned by doing nothing wrong, which I later found was from picking up money or items that a hacker had spawned. My friends and I ended up getting the game anyway - and haven't regretted it - but initially we were super on edge about possibly having money dropped on us and accidentally picking it up. Probably the biggest irony is that we've used an exploit in game to make tonnes of money - definitely in a way RockStar didn't intend - and never got banned for it, when we probably should've at least gotten a temp ban. Priorities are whack.
I think this video is missing two obvious ones that should have been included: Savjz a HS pro player was banned from HS tournaments, because his wife who used to work with Blizzard criticized Blizzard for mass firings, then immediately hiring for those same positions And ofc Blitzchung being banned by Blizzard for supporting human rights of his own country
In Dark Souls 3 you can force test data and emotes into other players’ inventories which will ban them, but not the hacker. I remember in DS2 you could also create weapons with impossible stats which would ban players too. Look up Malcolm Reynolds’ videos for a good laugh
Sorry I have to laugh at the Sheeva teleport stomp. Y'all, that move was like that in MK3 too, but you know what we did? Ran forward or jumped back. This is the kind of stuff that annoyed me about the FGC newbies. They cry about everything being unfair instead of figuring out how to deal with it. But yeah that was bitch made to ban someone from an online tournament because they criticized the developers. If you're going to be that thin skinned, you might as well quit your job and give it to an adult who could care less about being petty to the individuals who bought their game.
I was banned from Diablo 2 for memorizing the maps (They are all pregenerated and most maps only have 3-5 variants, most quite different, and were not in fact randomly generated tile constructions like they implied) from years of play and recognizing different ones, and had done so many MF runs that everything I did was basically reflex. Was banned for botting. If you're wondering what drew attention to me in the first place. Blizzard has an auto flag in place for people generating too many room instances, which most MFers generate a lot of because there's not many good drop farm locations. So a mod comes and checks you out in secret because the program flags you as a potential botter for making so many rooms. And considering Blizzard staff are clowns they can't tell the difference between a highly experienced person grinding trying to maximize their time and a bot.
i've used Xpadder for years. depending on what type of game you're playing, it can absolutely be cheating (autofire, shooting a gun at the perfect interval to get optimal stability, macros, etc.) especially in fighting games. but if you're playing the PC version, you have to expect programs like this, or worse. many years ago i used it to play as Zangief and i was a piledriving god. these days i'll use it if a game doesn't support a controller, or i can't switch controls.
I got banned from Rainbow Six Siege for having a soundboard and bantering with other players, despite the fact that people in that game often team kill, mic spam, insult others, etc. and don't get banned.
Also shout out to Activision/ Blizzard for banning a player for supporting the Hong Kong protests, as well as firing the employees announcing the tournament too. Thanks Bobby Kotick!
