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Since when is winamp a 3rd party program?

hjelows··2 votes·526 views

EDIT: THE TITLE IS MEANT AS I LIKE TO LISTEN TO MUSIC WHILE PLAYING LEAGUE. Its nowhere said that winamp is the reason why i am banned. So the situation is as follows. So this morning i woke up to a awesome gift from riot - a perma ban for using a 3rd party program. The only problem is that i havent used any 3rd party programs. As far as i know if someone gets caught hacking they get banned almost instantly, but in my case i got banned at 5:38 AM (atleast at that time i got the e-mail that my account has been permanently suspended) which is almost 5 hours after my last game. And yeah... thats pretty much it... Now i have not shared my account information with anyone and im sure noone has hacked my account since there havent been any games played after the ones i did play.

This ban has left me really frustrated for i have put a lot of time, effort and money into it and if i cant get it back then cya everyone wont see you on the rift again... Im just not gonna go through 2 years of progress all over again. And im not talking about my rank which is only g5 but the champs, skins and other stuff.

I'd really like to know what how big are my chances of getting my account back.

7 Comments

Silent Gravity4 votes

Hacking is banned in waves, sometimes months after it was detected. This is to make it more difficult for the hackers to know which script or program was detected.

If you bought your account (not saying you did), you could play for months before being 'randomly' banned. The account sellers use bots to level them.

I use winamp every single game. For as long as I've played. It wasn't detected as a 3rd party program.

Eevee In A Jar2 votes

Make a ticket and state your case that winamp was flagged as third party cheating program and you were punished for it. If this is indeed the reason why you were banned, then you should get your account back soon though it might take some time.

hjelows1 votes

Hmm guess i had to mention that i made title like that because winamp was the only program running while i was playing league. Its nowhere mentioned that winamp was flagged as a 3rd party program.

Eevee In A Jar1 votes

Thats why you should make a ticket. Riot will probably clarify whether or not the ban was justified.

hjelows1 votes

I already did submit a ticket and besides telling me that a serious investigation was taken on my account, they didnt tell me anything new, just the things i recieved on my e-mail regarding my accounts suspension.

kF2vSItcYM1 votes

I was just banned as well. The only "3rd party tools" I use are logitech gaming mouse software and discord. I spent hundreds on this account. There is no way I would ever be dumb enough to use hacks. And this was after a 1 month break from the game.

I play one game, and boom I'm banned. You can even search me up Sumerian on na.op.gg. There is 0 way I'm hacking. I have mediocre kdas and mediocre wr's...

I'm actually so sad wtf. Hopefully, they will review my ticket and unban me, but knowing Riot support, they'll probably give me an automated message.

hjelows1 votes

Well they just rewieved my ticked and the answer seemed pretty much like an automated message, and it wasnt even like a solution. They just told me they can't reveal the details because it could compromise future investigations, and pretty much told me the same thing i got on the email ragarding my account suspension.

It's really stupid from Riot to not provide any information to the player. It's like saying "You're banned. Deal with it!" They really need to rework their suspension system and be more supportive.

+If you're banned, it means that you cant play LoL ever again, which leaves the players willing to reform.

This really makes me upset, because i've enjoyed this game for almost 2 years and havent played almost anything else but League, and now all my progress has been taken away without any decent explanation. I really want to play league but if i cant get my account back then i'll just refuse to play this game only because Riot doesn't really care about the players...

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