Does using VPN leads to ban?

Aamir123

I sometimes use vpn on my device and today I mistakenly opened mcoc while vpn was on.? Can it lead to any sort of punishment or ban?

Thicco_Mode

No

Aamir123

Thicco_Mode said:

No

You sure bro.??? My account is 5+ years old and I really don’t want any sort of issues with it.

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Aamir123

I usually take care of this as im using vpn since 2-3 months. But today i forgot to close it as i was excited about opening my 6* and in a hurry opened mcoc.

DigletGaming

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious @Kabam Lyra @Kabam Zibiit @Kabam Porthos
Wanna confirm anything?

StevieManWonder

VPNs just change your IP address, right? I think I recall Miike saying that they’re okay

Thicco_Mode

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/1137009/#Comment_1137009
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/387041/#Comment_387041
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/287926/#Comment_287926
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/62471/#Comment_62471

DNA3000

StevieManWonder said:

VPNs just change your IP address, right? I think I recall Miike saying that they’re okay

For this discussion purposes, more or less. @Thicco_Mode found links to some of the many, many times the mods have made statements about this, but I'll add something else. Banning based on using VPN is nonsensical, because a) it is indistinguishable from someone going to Starbucks or McDonalds and using free Wifi, and b) if you play on cellular data networks then you're practically using an invisible VPN regardless (technical geek stuff: cellular networks use dynamic NAT and many use 6to4 encapsulation if they've transitioned to IPv6, and all cellular traffic is technically encrypted, so the cell data network is arguably a very large diffuse VPN cloud).

To put it another way, your phone cellular carrier could choose to VPN *all* your data traffic to them, and there's nothing you could do about it. They could have done it yesterday, and you wouldn't even know.

Now, VPNs are just a tool. If you use that tool to break some other rule, then that would still be against the TOS. Like say if MCOC has a contest that requires you to declare where you live, but you use the VPN to pretend to be somewhere else, that could be a violation of the TOS. But it wouldn't be the VPN that was the problem it would be the lying to Kabam part that was the problem.

Thicco_Mode

DNA3000 said:

StevieManWonder said:

VPNs just change your IP address, right? I think I recall Miike saying that they’re okay

For this discussion purposes, more or less. @Thicco_Mode found links to some of the many, many times the mods have made statements about this, but I'll add something else. Banning based on using VPN is nonsensical, because a) it is indistinguishable from someone going to Starbucks or McDonalds and using free Wifi, and b) if you play on cellular data networks then you're practically using an invisible VPN regardless (technical geek stuff: cellular networks use dynamic NAT and many use 6to4 encapsulation if they've transitioned to IPv6, and all cellular traffic is technically encrypted, so the cell data network is arguably a very large diffuse VPN cloud).

To put it another way, your phone cellular carrier could choose to VPN *all* your data traffic to them, and there's nothing you could do about it. They could have done it yesterday, and you wouldn't even know.

Now, VPNs are just a tool. If you use that tool to break some other rule, then that would still be against the TOS. Like say if MCOC has a contest that requires you to declare where you live, but you use the VPN to pretend to be somewhere else, that could be a violation of the TOS. But it wouldn't be the VPN that was the problem it would be the lying to Kabam part that was the problem.

That's the second time you've tagged me today. I'm honored

Kageyama