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It's on the news page, but figured it might be ok to post it here in case someone doesn't check there, and also for discussion's sake.

From Kabam today:

"Today we opened up a new front in the war against cheaters. For the first time, we have deployed new technology that allows us to identify players using a client that was not distributed by one of our legitimate partners or by Kabam. In doing so, we found and banned over 10,000 accounts that have been using modified or otherwise illegitimate versions of our client to play the game. Another couple thousand accounts have received warnings for potential infractions, and if you received this warning know that your account will have more scrutiny on it moving forward. If you are in fact using an illegitimate client, now is the time to stop.

We believe this action will result in a massive improvement to the overall anti-cheat ecosystem, as the vast majority of players caught and banned for cheating so far this year failed this test.

Moving forward, all Summoners should be aware that using a client other than one distributed by us or our partners puts your account at risk of a permanent ban."

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"?

In reality, I am questioning the reason for my 7-day ban, when my device runs an Android operating system and has only downloaded updates from the Play Store since 2020. The responses from technical support leave much to be desired, repeating what is in this post. I hope they clarify the reasons, and since I have nothing to fear, this is why I am contesting the unjust sanction. But if I will definitely experience these 'problems' again every so often, as seen in other games when implementing anti-cheats (which are never 100% error-proof), I prefer not to waste my time and abandon the game.

Honestly, I wouldn't waste my time with support right now. They're probably getting 10,000 requests right now, so they're just copy pasting the response they've been told to give. While not what you want, I'd wait for a response from Kabam (or Kabam Crashed) on Monday which will either be, tough luck, you all did it, or we made a major mistake.

I totally understand, but it's the only thing left to claim an account to which I have invested some money. I assume I will lose the account, but don't call me a cheat without evidence.

I care about the game, and I sympathize with the people affected. What I won't do is abandon logic.

Tell me the logic of accepting someone's money and then telling them too bad you shouldn't even have been here to give me the money in the first place.

So question do you believe that ppl shouldnt be held accountable for their actions you really feel the whole blame falls on kabam because that is what it sounds like i get it it sucks that the players in mainland china dont have a legit way to get the game correctly that use android phones and yes ethically with the money issue you have it is not right but kabam sends out warning atleast every few months in game not to use 3rd party also what if kabam just sent those ppl an in game warning you think at the end of that 7 days anything would be different for them no it wouldnt and kabam never forced those players that spent that money in the game it is obvious kabam made a decision that wasnt easy you want them to just abandon the fight on cheaters just so they can continue playing the game or is your thought process to just let that region use 3rd party to play the game but everyone else cant cause that would be a big slippery slope right there

I do believe thety should be held accountable, also I do believe there should come out with a better solution as a next step.
I am not buying the "new technology" story. i am sure this is something that could have been implemented years ago when mods started showing up. I think its a last resort to a situation they lost complete control after 10 years. A new game restricting the access to a huge market like China from day 1 or year 1 wouldn't have been as profitable as restricting it after 10 years would it?
I have used other apps on android that stop functioning if you download the apk from somewheere for years. Like I said lipstick on a pig to call it new technology.

At this point everything is just speculative i dont believe kabam has just been sitting on this tech cause they want to milk per se the chinese android market who knows maybe they have been working behind the scenes to get something set up for that market im just going to sit back and see what happens tomorrow been a pretty crazy i am not a tos violater weekend lol

If they had been working behind the scenes,
why not announce it? Something along the lines of "On June 7th people who don't download the game from official sources will no longer have access to the game, we will work to accommodate region issues"
Sounds a lot better than "Hey man you spent a bunch during HoF event, got the sweet champs you wanted and rank them? Well guess what, you were not supposed to have access to the game; but thanks for supporting us!"