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Regarding the MMR Boosting bans happening

iDie4NoReason·11/20/2015, 11:16:06 PM·28 votes·5,615 views

Going to start off by saying I'm not here to defend any case (mine or anyone elses) or to attempt to prove innocence to a forum board full of people who don't care or who would not be likely to believe anyone posting something like this anyways. This is 100% just to inform people of something that I had happen to me so that they can avoid it happening to them, because its not right.

So today I got banned for "MMO Boosting" happening on my account. I'm a Gold 3 player who hasn't had their rating fluctuate outside of Silver 1 - Gold 3 for two years, and still to this day, remains in Gold 4. Now, I get what they are trying to do, and I understand that this way of auditing is likely to find more boosters than innocent players. But they really need to look at this system again.

Below is a Gyazo link to a screenshot showing the officially released definition of "MMR Boosting" which was in the body of my ban notification, along with the punishment summary:

https://i.gyazo.com/3c2d2a75e6b428a3c49688f8d93d0c18.png

I would assume that they've just started auditing accounts in the last month or so. The only time in this time frame that my account was logged in to off of my home network was when I LANing at my buddy's place on halloween. Half the reason I'm posting this is because I'm able to isolate that event so well. It's the only non-normal way I've logged into my account in probably 1.5 years, and I've never shared my account info ever.

I'm not here to cry about it, or to try to contact a Riot employee via the forums...I obviously have an appeal ticket open. I'm just posting this to let others in the community know that I was literally banned and stripped of all my season rewards ever earned because I took my computer to a buddy's house to have some fun, and logged onto league and played ranked at his house.

Just something to think about next time you are about to log in from somewhere that isn't your "standard network" on your account. Needless to say, I was flabbergasted when I opened the email today. Seems pretty easy to get wrongfully banned by the company we give a ton of money to these days.

61 Comments

Linthe11/20/2015, 11:51:38 PM14 votes

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/jQLiEW6h-mmr-boosting-punishments-for-the-2015-season

2nd page:

Using a VPN will never result in a MMR Boosting suspension, nor will playing from a friends house. We know players like to play from locations other than home all the time. Our methods take this into consideration. The last thing we want to do is punish someone for hanging out with friends or family.

Aheadatime11/21/2015, 6:40:20 AM5 votes

I dunno man. I take my laptop to a buddy's house and game every now and then, and have done so within the last month. I've never been warned/flagged/banned for it.

Linthe11/20/2015, 11:36:47 PM5 votes

Yea.. I feel for you... Riot is on record as saying they CAN tell if "you" are playing away from home... that is not bannable and specifically will NOT be banned...

Good luck.

Deep Terror Nami11/21/2015, 12:19:52 AM4 votes

I find it suspicious that you specifically mention that nothing happened on your account in the last month or so; they are constantly building cases against MMR Boosters, they just do the bans in waves. Whatever happened on your account that determined you were being boosted could have happened several months ago.

If there is any doubt in whether you were boosting or not, they will give you the benefit of the doubt and not ban you. Human error is of course a possibility, and they will review your case again if you submit a Support Ticket (as you already have done).

OperationDEEZ111/20/2015, 11:18:57 PM3 votes

As if the banning system didn't have enough holes in it as is.

Eeyore11/21/2015, 9:15:56 AM3 votes

Have you ever played on another account?

Both the Booster and Boostee get banned. Just because your account has never had someone else play on doesn't mean you've not played on another account. If that other account was a smurf then you still have a valid complaint - if it wasn't, well there's your answer.

Solaxo11/21/2015, 2:52:45 PM3 votes

Can't wait for a Rioter to come in and completely wreck you

Sarutobi11/21/2015, 4:22:54 PM3 votes

I have played not only at friends house but also Internet cafes, over the 5 years I haven't been ban on my account, nor any type of warning. I understand it's hard to believe people, but I trust riot knows what they are doing. Not trying to be rude but you are just one random person. You could be lying because you want your account back.

nerak2311/21/2015, 9:46:12 AM2 votes

Below is a Gyazo link to a screenshot showing the officially released definition of "MMR Boosting" which was in the body of my ban notification, along with the punishment summary:

This is a screen shot of what is in A notification right ? Why didn't you put up Your notification ?

I'm not about to call you a liar or say Riot can't make mistakes because then can and do !

But, I have logged on to my account from 3 locations and at least 4 computers over at least 2 years and not just once but on different occasions. I just want the other side of the coin seen here also..never got punished or accused of anything. ?

EDIT: no make that 5 computers I forgot I bought a new once since I started playing ..

blackmoma11/21/2015, 4:35:04 PM2 votes

i know 2 people who got boosted and still have there rewards and aren't banned

RogueWill11/21/2015, 9:38:10 AM2 votes

My LA account got banned for logging in (and play ranked) on 3 different countries within a week. It was me just traveling back home for vacation and wanting to play, I didn't appeal because I had no way to prove that was actually me (since the third country was traveled by car) but good luck trying to appeal without any kind of prove that it was you on your friends house

Jack º11/20/2015, 11:29:36 PM1 votes

Put in a Support Ticket...

Sinister Anubis11/21/2015, 4:39:41 PM1 votes

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Going to start off by saying I'm not here to defend any case (mine or anyone elses) or to attempt to prove innocence to a forum board full of people who don't care or who would not be likely to believe anyone posting something like this anyways. This is 100% just to inform people of something that I had happen to me so that they can avoid it happening to them, because its not right.

So today I got banned for "MMO Boosting" happening on my account. I'm a Gold 3 player who hasn't had their rating fluctuate outside of Silver 1 - Gold 3 for two years, and still to this day, remains in Gold 4. Now, I get what they are trying to do, and I understand that this way of auditing is likely to find more boosters than innocent players. But they really need to look at this system again.

Below is a Gyazo link to a screenshot showing the officially released definition of "MMR Boosting" which was in the body of my ban notification, along with the punishment summary:

https://i.gyazo.com/3c2d2a75e6b428a3c49688f8d93d0c18.png

I would assume that they've just started auditing accounts in the last month or so. The only time in this time frame that my account was logged in to off of my home network was when I LANing at my buddy's place on halloween. Half the reason I'm posting this is because I'm able to isolate that event so well. It's the only non-normal way I've logged into my account in probably 1.5 years, and I've never shared my account info ever.

I'm not here to cry about it, or to try to contact a Riot employee via the forums...I obviously have an appeal ticket open. I'm just posting this to let others in the community know that I was literally banned and stripped of all my season rewards ever earned because I took my computer to a buddy's house to have some fun, and logged onto league and played ranked at his house.

Just something to think about next time you are about to log in from somewhere that isn't your "standard network" on your account. Needless to say, I was flabbergasted when I opened the email today. Seems pretty easy to get wrongfully banned by the company we give a ton of money to these days.

1st off they do look at the system. They look at mainly who is logging into your account from different locations. Good example is this.(If i logged into my league account in New York City and then log off and then 30 minutes later someone in California LA logged into my account to play some solo que games) This shows riot 1 of 2 things both are ban worthy. 1 Is you are account sharing which is a big no no. 2 You are in fact getting elo boosted.