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It is impossible for Google Play to be a third-party app since Kabam himself says to download it from there.

It's not though. Not all android phones have Google Play natively installed. Google is also banned in China. So the only way to get Google Play, for some, to download MCoC is to get Google Play through an APK, making it third-party software. That specific scenario likely speaks to many of the suspensions that have taken place.

My phone already came with Google Play installed. And if it turns out that a device didn't come with Google Play installed and you don't know, how do you check? Otherwise, it's not your fault that the ban was caused.

No one gets to avoid the rules just because they don't know they're breaking them.
A lot of phones come with Google Play already installed, but not all do. You would know by whether or not you have to install it. Even if a player doesn't have a modded game, they are still at fault if the game was downloaded through an unapproved source, and third-party access to Google Play would be unapproved.

I understand what you're saying, but I didn't download MCOC from a third-party app, I downloaded it from Google Play itself, which Kabam says is reliable. Also, with that criterion, you can't play MCOC anymore, since they'll always be banning you until you lose all your progress. If you don't have a way to check if your Google Play app is original when it's already installed on a phone from the factory. For example, I found out because of this mega-ban that Google Play could be pirated or downloaded from other sources when it doesn't come from the factory.

It's interesting to see How frequently Kabam published irrelevant news that nobody really cares in the last couple of days, even in weekend, they really want to distract people from this topic.

Well, well, well, it ain't going to be easy, this impacted too many things, AW season, AR week, BG alliance leaderboard, and of course, Kabam's revenue next month.

Kabam’s revenue will be fine because the hundreds of thousands of players who play and didn’t get banned (btw it was mostly legit bans anyway) will continue to spend

And they’re not publishing irrelevant news, making up stuff for no reason. They’re not distracting anyone from anything, the community team isn’t the one who has anything to do with bans anyway

Like always, someone jump up and defend, people never learn
No surprise, it will happen again and again.

Most of the bans were legit so…what do you want me to say? And you can choose not to spend Kabam doesn’t care lmao

Sounds like I care? From your comment history, you definitely care Kabam more than I do.
Oh, wait, where did you get the "most" from?

Where are the "you download the game from third party" guys now? They were so confident about that.

We're still here. The ban reversals aren't across the board. They are for only the false positives. If you downloaded the game from a 3rd party that isn't an authorized source, you're still banned.

Not true. Even true positives could have been unbanned. 😬

As far as I have been told, Kabam is reversing the ones they believe to be false positives specifically.

The announcement says they unbanned a specific group and that it could have true positives

The wording seemed a bit ambiguous to me, so I asked. They are reversing those they believe to be, or have a good chance to be, false positives.

Keep in mind this does not mean the players whose bans are reversed are 100% certain to be clean. Rather, it means they should not have been flagged by whatever algorithm they ran for this ban wave. If any of those people are in fact running unauthorized clients or running in unauthorized environments, this should not be taken as an endorsement that what they are doing is perfectly fine. They should still migrate off of those clients and environments as soon as possible, or they risk being banned in a later sweep.