Potential triggers for the anti-cheat system
mikemai2awesome
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A lot of people got banned even though they never cheated. Don't be mean to others who are trying to voice their frustrations. I am here to list a few potential triggers.
1. Downloaded google play via apk in order to download the game. Unfortunately for Chinese players or players who use Chinese phones like Huawei and Xiaomi, google play doesn't come by default. Google is blocked in China, they have to download google play via apk in order to get western apps.
2. Used a phone mover app. When switching to a new phone, Android users would use an app to transfer everything (apps and data) over from the old phone to the new one.
3. Used a vpn. This game doesn't work everywhere in the world. If you live or travel to somewhere the game is not supported, you have to use vpn to run it.
All three points apply to me unfortunately.
Lastly, and very likely, this anti-cheat system is full of bugs. I work in tech myself and I know for a fact that most companies run offshore teams to cut costs. A company of Kabam's size is no doubt running offshore teams. While they are cheap, offshore teams are mostly underskilled and incompetent. I don't trust them to release solid features or products.
1. Downloaded google play via apk in order to download the game. Unfortunately for Chinese players or players who use Chinese phones like Huawei and Xiaomi, google play doesn't come by default. Google is blocked in China, they have to download google play via apk in order to get western apps.
2. Used a phone mover app. When switching to a new phone, Android users would use an app to transfer everything (apps and data) over from the old phone to the new one.
3. Used a vpn. This game doesn't work everywhere in the world. If you live or travel to somewhere the game is not supported, you have to use vpn to run it.
All three points apply to me unfortunately.
Lastly, and very likely, this anti-cheat system is full of bugs. I work in tech myself and I know for a fact that most companies run offshore teams to cut costs. A company of Kabam's size is no doubt running offshore teams. While they are cheap, offshore teams are mostly underskilled and incompetent. I don't trust them to release solid features or products.
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Also does anyone think that last point is kinda racist? Is that just me?
This is just a bad implementation. What is it actually looking for?
When the Russia//Ukraine war kicked off, those were blocked immediately.
If you have a personal vpn and the’re allowed, could break or trigger stuff if they’re blocked.
Older Xiaomi is not really google play.
But not indicative of the current issue.
99.5% of these bans are probably legit...
Hacks/Mods/Software for these games follow the same fundamental rules, and the main one is that they are data houses, the software Hacks/Mods/Optimization you use for League of Legends will also attack/search for any other apps that it can push into, they are not designed to only work with 1 app. APKs are "open source" which means they have the ability to be tracked by any third party to recognize the system its being used in and constantly monitor that device.
That said, if you have ever used any Hacks/Software for any other app on your device, even if its not MCOC, there is a possibility of that software attaching to MCOC, whether you are using it or not.
Removing these "clients"(Hack/Software) does not actually remove 100% of it, because of the nature of these things, they will always leave a small component in your device to monitor and track your device, there's security software but most are fallible to a certain degree.
So....if you are using any software for...other games, social media, ecomm, tracking or anything else, chances are that software is looking for other things it can integrate with on your device and as a result, possibly MCOC.
It's not "multiple devices", "VPNs" or even moving to a new device that gets you banned.
I'm not attacking anyone, those that use Mods/Hacks...you know who you are, the penalty is what it is. Is there a chance that you are lumped into a error, yes, any new anti-cheat is bound to have some flaws as the ML/Ai sorts its learning.
Just my thoughts, with digital age comes digital issues, a lot of the things you DL to you devices are built with tracking, and tracking software can look like anything.
Good luck all, and really, careful what you download, 90% of the things you've put on your device, even 10 years ago, are still sitting there, whether you deleted or not.
Peace
Lets hope this gets sorted.
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