Just weeks after developer Bungie erroneously banned a wave of players on Destiny 2 for PC, a new wave of bans has hit the first-person shooter. And with that, a new round of players is claiming that they were banned unjustly.
After a banwave during Destiny 2‘s PC launch, numerous players claimed that they were banned not for cheating, as Bungie had claimed, but for running innocuous third-party software like Discord and Open Broadcaster Software. Bungie denied that these programs were leading to bans, saying in a blog post that players would only be banned after manual investigation by Bungie staff.
However, further investigation determined that this was wrong, and Bungie later updated the post saying it had identified “a group of players who were banned in error” whose bans were then overturned.
This week, after another round of bans, players are suspecting that the same incident might have happened again. Players caught in this latest round of bans are speculating that they have been flagged for using harmless third-party programs rather than cheating tools.
“I’m a programmer for another triple-A video game developer, so I have software on my machine like a kernel debugger, which I use for work,” one player wrote on Bungie’s official forums. “I mention this because the existence of such software on my computer is the only possible thing I can think of that would even remotely get my account flagged.”
“I’m using the same programs I use in every Blizzard game, every Steam game, and every Origin game,” another said.
“But Destiny has banned me for (maybe?) having them open. It’s sloppy, and after the first wave of bans, people don’t trust you.”
Bungie has once again denied that third-party programs other than cheating tools are causing players to be banned.
“We looked into it,” community manager Chris “Cozmo” Shannon said on the official forums yesterday. “Our recent wave of protective security measures were reviewed extensively and all were identified as having cheat tools running multiple times.”
We’ve also received a number of tips from Destiny 2 players who say that they or their friends have been banned unfairly. It’s impossible to verify these claims — cheaters don’t often admit that they cheated — but this all feels very similar to what happened a few weeks ago.
Bungie has not yet responded to a request for more information. For now, Destiny 2 PC players should exercise caution to avoid getting caught in any banwave. A list of approved third party applications and overlays can be found here.
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5 responses to “Second Destiny 2 PC Ban Wave Has Some Players Crying Foul Again”
Reading ban wave messages on steam is a favourite past time of mine, off to the bungie forums!
Yeah i don’t trust anyone complaining, especially after they said they had only banned like 400 accounts last time, and these people were complaining that it was a bigger issue.
Now anyone who gets banned is going to say that these are the reasons they got banned and not because they actually used cheat programs in an attempt to get the ban reversed and not look like cheating idiots.
Banned cheaters claiming they didnt actually cheat.
in other news, Water is wet.
On a more serious note you see this all the time with World of Warcraft. Every time they do a bot ban wave, The support forums are flooded with people proclaiming they are the innocent ones or making up some bullshit story about them being hacked or something.
Idk why PC players always have to cheat. Its so annoying playing cod and you watch the kill Cam and a guys gun magically drifts to a wall and as you even think of coming around the corner they are already shooting. Do you have to be that big of a dork to care THAT much about your stats? And most of these people also prob rip the game from illegal downloads so don’t care if they get banned.
Probably all the people from the first wave that bought new accounts lol
The reason this banwave caused such an uproar was because it banned people for having disassemblers and memory editing software open– software that could potentially be used to cheat, if the game had absolutely no protection against basic cheating software– regardless of whether or not the software was used on their game or not.
It’s kinda like banning someone for owning a knife, because they used it to cut up some veg.