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Ignoring the multiple warnings about not using 3rd party apps, and being a twat on the forums is trash and ignorant behavior. That’s purely my opinion, these multiple threads here on the forums-why this and that, is because the majority of you didn’t read the warning and didn’t give a ****, and here is the conclusion of your actions. Have a awesome day!

My beautiful brother. Look, the thing you don't understand is this. I didn't use a 3rd party software. Since I don't like Google services tracking me, I use an Android system without Google services. And the place I installed the game is a page called apkmirror. They don't allow their names to be associated with cheats, not cheats. I don't know what you have set up in your head, but what you want to say is no different than saying 'you are not guilty but you have to die'. This is not how things can go in this community. I accept that it is a beautiful system, but shouldn't they weed out the innocent ones? In a way that I can't understand, forum members don't know anything other than saying "if everyone dies, there is no problem if I live"?

We don’t know — and can’t know — if someone using an unofficial client is actively cheating or not. If there’s a possibility they’re modding and they’re already violating ToS by using the wrong client, then Kabam has to act in the best interest of the game. I feel bad for someone who lives in a region where they are only able to access the game through unorthodox means. But it is what it is.

Just to amplify this a bit, a lot of people don't fully appreciate why Kabam very strictly prohibits things like the use of emulated environments or unofficial game clients. The reason why is because once you allow players to play on environments you do not control or do not have a complete understanding of, you can't trust anything that happens anymore. Even if you build anti-cheat capabilities into the client, you can't trust what they say if the game runs in an emulated environment where the player theoretically has the ability to control anything the game client sees or does. Ditto if the game client has been altered in any way.

When someone says they should only ban people when they actually cheat, that's like saying banks should allow people to wander around in the bank vaults and teller stations, sift through the cash, and only stop them if they actually try to leave with money in their pockets. That's asking for too much. They have to stop players from using tools that make it extremely difficult to catch cheating, even if those players aren't cheating. There's no way to be certain those players aren't cheating, and we can't just take their word for it.

I do in fact have sympathy for players who side load the game because circumstances make it impossible for them to download through authorized channels. However, it is also important to note that Kabam didn't just straight up ban everyone. According to their announcement, a bunch of people were banned permanently. Some were temporarily banned and/or given warnings. Players have come forward to state they were either perma banned or temp banned, so we know both kinds of bans went out. This wasn't done randomly. Some players who were using these unauthorized clients drew warnings or short term bans. The rest got perma banned. There's likely to be a very good reason Kabam had for deciding which players were permanently kicked. It wasn't just for side loading the game client.

Since you also said that you sympathize with those who can only use unofficial channels to download the client, some people are only banned for 7 days, and then what? After the ban is unblocked, he still cannot download the client from the official channel, so what is the difference between this ban and a permanent ban? What is the meaning of your sympathy? Have you really considered them?

You're quickly rising ranks to take the gold medal for the worst forum user ever

My account was suspended yesterday for some BS 3rd party software violation. I have never installed from anywhere other than the Play store on my S23. Always been official. I mainly just do AQ in a retirement alliance. I'm not trying to do anything shifty. If they don't get this resolved I'm just going to delete the game. Been playing for 8 years and just stayed uncollected for years until they did the champ giveaways recently. So I decided to up one level, I think paragon. I don't care about 7 stars. I haven't been trying to finish any solo content. I'm basically on coast, and then get suspended for 7 days. No warning. Didn't do anything wrong. I got stuff expiring, missing daily rewards, and as a key contributor in AQ for my alliance it's not only affecting me, but their AQ rewards, too. Glad I never spent a bunch of money, just spent too much time. 😞

Dude, they suspended you. I don't think they are worried that much about threats of quitting.

He can ban him today without giving any clear reason, and he can ban you the same way tomorrow.

Hi everyone. Obviously there is a lot of consternation and confusion right now over the recent bans. I just wanted to clarify a few things.

As the official post says, playing on a client distributed by anybody other than us or our official partners could get you flagged for a ban. Yes, this means if you sideloaded the game you were likely flagged. Our official partners are Apple, Google, Flexion and Steam. We distribute the game on PC through the downloader at https://playcontestofchampions.com/ Those are the only official channels to get the game, if you used any other means you were likely flagged.

We tested this algorithm against hundreds of known good accounts without any false positives. Having said that, in any action this big, there might be edge cases that couldn't be accounted for in advance. We are obviously taking these reports seriously and investigating these cases.

I've been playing this game for over 7 years, never used any unofficial distibutions, only google play store + recently your pc launcher, yet I got banned.
To write a ticket I had to check my payments and after realising how much money I have spent I came into conclusion that is enough.
I WAS your legitimate client.
I WAS spending money.
I NEVER cheated.
Yet you banned me for 7 days resulting in me missing on raid, aw, aq rewards. This influenced my ally because there was not a possibilty to clear the map.
I got response to uninstall the game and reinstall from official distribution, well guess what, I HAD it from official distribution. I have lost all my trust in your company so I won't be returning to the game because I don't know when again You'll decide to wrongfully ban me.
You lost a client, I know nobody cares about me(well apart from my allymates - I was still in the game for them, despite all the bugs, all unfair defenders, etc.)

Farewell fellow summoners...


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Can we get clarity on this statement

"Another couple thousand accounts have received warnings for potential infractions"

What was the warning?

1) 7 days bans

Or

2) a Msg you have been warn for potential infractions

So I have had a quick look through the forum, and didn't noticed anyone mentioned they got a Warning Msg of Potential Infractions, just the 7, 30 or permanent ban.

If this is the case then I think it might where the problem is.

Find and banning modder is much need for the game, especially in the competitive mode, BG and AW.

However with a new system running live for the first time with this big number of players being tag , maybe Kabam could of be more cautious with the ban implementation.

If Kabam feel confident with certain players then sure permanent ban or 30 days so is great.

But I assumed that those got 7 days was the 2 thousand players that "Portential" infractions, Which seem far too risky and also pointless for Kabam. A better approach would of been a Warning msg in the line of:-

"We believe you may bave infractions our T&C, please ensure you only play MCOc from our official clients, if unsure please contact T&C or our customer support for more details"

Banning "potential" infractions players for 7 days actually does a lot of damage unnecessarily.

For someone it would affect their double check or chased item, or just grinding for 4th July.

For other like @Priyabrata said being labelled as a cheater might be worst.

Also for every one player been nand for 7 days, 29 other players also get disrupted in AW and especially Raid next week.

All based on potentially infraction.

Personally (if all of this is the case) I think it might worth Kabam unban all players with 7 days ban first thinf on Monday, honestly it wouldn't make any different to Kabam but wpuld ease this whole situation.

I agree. It should've been a warning without suspension and a way to submit that you did get your software officially or for further review to get more info. I've done nothing wrong and got a 7 day suspension, and not a happy camper. I've got enough real life BS going on, I don't need this **** from something that's supposed to be a release.