Skip to content

I would like help about a perma ban.

Nextazo··3 votes·874 views

After making a thread talking about the large ban wave that has happened, I want to talk more specifically about the aspects of my ban. Though I understand that it might be hard to beileve someone who has been banned, I'd like to explain myself. I am a silver 5 player who has around 700 hours invested in league with around 300 dollars spent in game. I have 50% win rate in ranked and a 50% win rate on my main, gangplank. I'm painful average at the game and I'm okay with that. I'm honestly confused at my ban. I'm the such average player and have no games in my history that show me doing way above average in a way that would depict me using any third party programs to make me better at the game. Though I have sent in tickets trying to explain myself, it has come to little help and just confuses me more. I know that I haven't used anything that goes against terms, and I know it's hard to beileve, but I'm being completely honest.

20 Comments

Deep Terror Nami3 votes

A very common reason to be banned for scripting etc. when you weren't, is that your account was compromised and someone else used them on your account (a compromised email can lead to this too), you allowed someone else to use your account, or you had logged in through a client that did contain illegal modifications (even if you were unaware or didn't use them).

Do you have any suspicion that anything remotely close to the above reasons may have happened at any point in the past few months (even if you absolutely trust someone you shared your login info with)?

Nextazo3 votes

Nobody knows my account info at all, though I did have an issue with my computer a month or two back that lead to me having to system restore it a week back. The was when I opened league and skype my computer would straight up freeze. So that was the way I fixed it. That's the only way in my mind that my account could have been compromised.

Coopa1232 votes

Using 3rd party programs does not automatically mean scripting. This ban reason includes practically every change made to your LoL folder.

Did you instal any custom skins?

Nextazo1 votes

I don't use custom skins and from my knowledge the lol folder has never been altered expect to change a graphic setting once

ModThe Djinn2 votes

{quoted}

I don't use custom skins and from my knowledge the lol folder has never been altered expect to change a graphic setting once

There is a chance that, depending on the setting you changed, this could actually trigger it. Was it one that is normally changeable in-client?

Nextazo1 votes

No i changed the setting that made played an animation when walking​into a bush or something like that. I don't understand how that could trigger a ban, i thought that I was allowed to do that.

Nextazo1 votes

The issue about that though is that I'm playing on another account and i haven't got banned and I'm using the same settings

OnlyYouCanHearMe1 votes

I have a suspicion this might be it. It would not surprise me if your second account ended up caught in the next wave of bans. They do tend to wait a few weeks/months before rolling out a mass-banning. It looks like your other thread that I had commented on was either deleted, or moved to where I cant see it, but I was able to read your reply in my alerts. The banned until date is one that is typically associated with detection of a third party program. This can cover a lot of things; scripting, hacking, some botting programs, some of the mod programs. I would recommend checking this thread by Wuks, just to double check that you are not using any of the programs that are not allowed. If you have one of those programs on your machine, and you use even a tiny portion of it to interact with your league account... it's the ban.

To try and give a bit of insight on the Terms of Use, I'll put a few pertinent quotes from it below:

3.2. Can I do stuff with Riot’s intellectual property? (We reserve all the rights to our IP, but do allow for some personal, non-commercial uses like fan art.) We (and our licensors) own and reserve all rights and title in and to the Riot Services, and all data and content included therein, including, user accounts, computer code, titles, objects, artifacts, characters, character names, chat logs, Game recordings and broadcasts, locations, location names, stories, dialog, catch phrases, artwork, graphics, structural or landscape designs, animations, sounds, musical compositions and recordings, Riot Points (defined below), Influence Points (defined below), Hextech Items (defined below), Virtual Goods (defined below), audio-visual effects, character likenesses, methods of operation and gameplay (collectively, “Game Content”).

I've bolded the important parts. Riot owns the characters, the bushes, and the animations that play. Depending on what was done, it may have been a bit enough change to warrant action being taken.

ix. Using any unauthorized third party programs, including mods, hacks, cheats, scripts, bots, trainers and automation programs that interact with the Software in any way, for any purpose, including any unauthorized third party programs that intercept, emulate, or redirect any communication between the Software and Riot Games and any unauthorized third party programs that collect information about the Game by reading areas of memory used by the Software to store information;

This is the big one. It kinda sums up the reason why the first quote from the ToS is so darn important. Riot owns their toys. And they do not want anyone else trying to change them. And if a player is using a program in a seemingly harmless way to change a minor animation, it opens the door for a clever hacker to use that as a way to get in and make a bigger hack. So, rather than deal with it, Riot simply has these third party programs which have the ability to change Riot's coding considered unauthorized, and players are warned not to change the client or game files.

Nextazo1 votes

So my account was banned because i changed a 1 to a 0 in the game files. Though i understand that they own it, I'm given access to change, so in my opinion that doesn't warrant a ban in any way. But i guess if it broke terms. I honestly wish a rioter would comment so i know exactly what i did wrong.

Nextazo1 votes

{quoted}

So my account was banned because i changed a 1 to a 0 in the game files. Though i understand that they own it, I'm given access to change, so in my opinion that doesn't warrant a ban in any way. But i guess if it broke terms. I honestly wish a rioter would comment so i know exactly what i did wrong.

After some more research on what you suggested, that wouldn't be the reason i was banned because i wasn't told that in my discipline report. Another thread a while back had that happen to a guy and riot told him that it was because he modified game files, my discipline report says nothing about it, though i will paste what it says below

"Actions that have been performed on your account are in violation of the League of Legends Terms of Use. You can review these terms at http://www.leagueoflegends.com/legal/termsofuse"

"Due to the severity of this violation, your League of Legends account has been banned until Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 9001"

MarijoBoT2 votes

I have exact same problem like you!!! Account with a lot hours lots skins and champs and one day i just got banned. Without big explanations just that i was scripting or using 3 party software....

Nextazo1 votes

{quoted}

I have exact same problem like you!!! Account with a lot hours lots skins and champs and one day i just got banned. Without big explanations just that i was scripting or using 3 party software....

I'm not sure why so many people are getting banned, i honestly don't think a lot of us actually did anything wrong and are just confused. I read a post earlier saying that this is happened before, so that's hope it's just a mistake

Nextazo1 votes

Update: After sending in multiple tickets, they're just telling me that they've answered my questions already and closing them right away. This last ticket took 15 hours to get a reply and I'm still lost to why my account is banned.

dYW7w6mjp12 votes

{quoted}

Update: After sending in multiple tickets, they're just telling me that they've answered my questions already and closing them right away. This last ticket took 15 hours to get a reply and I'm still lost to why my account is banned.

You can still reply to those tickets

Nextazo1 votes

They've been closing them right after i send in a new one plus they're taking 15 hours to do so.

dYW7w6mjp11 votes

{quoted}

They've been closing them right after i send in a new one plus they're taking 15 hours to do so.

A reply from Player Behavior takes 12hours to 2 days, you're lucky. Anyways, you should read what they say and reply in that thread.

Evan PogChamp1 votes

They also instantly close all of my tickets on the issue as well. Not sure what other options I can do to get my account back.

Nextazo1 votes

I have no clue either, that's why i made this post, so i could get some help with my ban.

DONT NEEEED TEAM1 votes

U won't get it back I can't either sent I Ike 10 tickets they just keep copying same thing an say ban forever

Nextazo1 votes

{quoted}

U won't get it back I can't either sent I Ike 10 tickets they just keep copying same thing an say ban forever

You just got to give riot some time. I think they will unban those who didn't do anything wrong in time.

More from Player Behavior

More by Nextazo