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

85 points · 66 comments · xbmcuser

  1. orbital-decay · · focus · HN ↗
    That's a well known risk when buying used hardware, although I doubt a blacklisted CPU could do that alone. I used to host a bunch of pretty popular servers for survival games many of which used hardware ID checks, and we had about a dozen people banned due to this in ~5 years. We had extremely thorough investigations and they were 100% clean.
    1. unethical_ban · · focus · HN ↗
      I've been building PCs for myself and on occasion, others for 20 years. I have been playing games for as long. I never knew CPU hardware IDs were used in game permabans.
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