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Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL

85 points · 66 comments · xbmcuser

2OEH8eoCRo0 · 1790945910 · focus · HN ↗
When did video games get so serious that we need to do these things? Ridiculous.
1. vjsrinivas · 1790946288 · focus · HN ↗
  I wonder if it has anything to do with the rise of e-sports and the monetary aspect of "professional" multi-player games?
  1. Eridrus · 1790960763 · focus · HN ↗
    No, people cheat at multiplayer games that have no stakes pretty regularly.
    This is more necessary with the rise of freemium games where the base account is trivially replaced and so banning people's accounts does nothing.
    Not that paid games don't have cheating issues, but there's a limit on how much people are willing to spend getting rebanned regularly.

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