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Lord Vampair has Call of Duty®

Jan 13 @ 2:43pm

Shadow banned after the update (13/01/2025)

I had no problem yesterday. I updated the game today and I have got the same issues.
I was trying to play zombies and my character was costantly teleported in the water killed/stucked in the map.

Now I have checked my state and I have found out this:

NOT ELIGIBLE FOR APPEAL LIMITED MATCHMAKING Game(s): Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Campaign Call of Duty: Warzone Description: Your account is in a limited matchmaking state due to a potential violation. Unfortunately, we are unable to inform you when the account will exit a limited matchmaking state. You may check back here periodically to see if your status clears, or changes to a temporary or permanent suspension. Exiting a limited matchmaking state does not mean your account has been cleared of potential violations. Please review the Call of Duty Security and Enforcement Policy for more information.

Never been banned in 20 years of playing, because I don't use cheat.

Now my account is shadow banned as result of a "potential violation"... When I most play zombies, which is a single/co-op PVE mode.

I love how devs are able to break the game with every new update. They don't care about fixing the previous problems BUT they are always ready to sell new season passes with out of context skins, weapons and Fortnite inspired packs.

24€ to get few silly skins or weapons, or 20€ to buy pay-to-win gobblegums, when we have been waiting an achievement fix since 2 months... And now we are getting shadow banned without reasons too.

I love it, really. You think the series can't get worst but they find the way to aggravate it, always.

Last edited by Lord Vampair; Jan 15 @ 4:38pm

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Johnnyp882 has Call of Duty®

Jan 13 @ 5:21pm

Same thing happened to me. I suspect it's picking up something like Logitech G Hub or MSI Afterburner as "cheating" software? I wish they publish what is and isn't considered cheating software.

Vantezzle

Jan 13 @ 5:28pm

My shadowban just got lifted so definitely was a bug, because from what I've read it's usually days.

HommerJaySimpson has Call of Duty®

Jan 13 @ 5:29pm

Actvision CEO bans pc gamer (meme or not)

Johnnyp882 has Call of Duty®

Jan 13 @ 6:15pm

Yup I am magically no longer banned as well.

Lord Vampair has Call of Duty®

Jan 13 @ 6:45pm

Originally posted by Johnnyp882:
Yup I am magically no longer banned as well.

I have checked my status and it's changed:

NOT ELIGIBLE FOR APPEAL NO BAN DETECTED Game(s): Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Campaign Call of Duty: Warzone Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III - Campaign Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - Campaign Call of Duty: Vanguard Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Description: We did not detect an active ban on your Activision account. If you need help with any other issues, please check out our Support Options.

I don't use third party softwares to run/custom my pc components.
So, I can't say what was wrong but it looks like it got solved by itsself.

Hoping I'm not going to trigger any false ban my next play because no one care about comunicating you what hell happened...

Activision support communication is zero. Z-E-R-O. Unqualifiable.
Zero respect for their paid clients. Zero respect for their games.

Last edited by Lord Vampair; Jan 13 @ 7:27pm

RBS

Jan 15 @ 10:48am

I have same problem

Don Farzad has Call of Duty®

Jan 15 @ 10:53am

NOT ELIGIBLE FOR APPEAL

LIMITED MATCHMAKING
Game(s):
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Campaign
Call of Duty: Warzone
Description:
Your account is in a limited matchmaking state due to a potential violation. Unfortunately, we are unable to inform you when the account will exit a limited matchmaking state.

You may check back here periodically to see if your status clears, or changes to a temporary or permanent suspension. Exiting a limited matchmaking state does not mean your account has been cleared of potential violations.

Please review the Call of Duty Security and Enforcement Policy for more information.

Last edited by Don Farzad; Jan 15 @ 10:54am

BrøkeIt

Jan 15 @ 11:07am

Me too as well, was fine 2 days ago. now Limited Matchmaking in MW3

DeMario

Jan 15 @ 11:10am

3rd day of my shadowban today...

Ash456

Jan 15 @ 11:20am

the shadow ban system shouldnt effect zombies lmao? or does it no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way does it do that if your shadow banned

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Nitroarms®©™ has Call of Duty®

Jan 15 @ 11:32am

Originally posted by Ash456:
the shadow ban system shouldnt effect zombies lmao? or does it no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way does it do that if your shadow banned

Wrong it dose. Your still stuck on 200 ping servers and if you lag out you have to get your stuff back.

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Lord Vampair has Call of Duty®

Jan 15 @ 4:35pm

Originally posted by NITRO~ARMS©:
Originally posted by Ash456:
the shadow ban system shouldnt effect zombies lmao? or does it no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way does it do that if your shadow banned
Wrong it dose. Your still stuck on 200 ping servers and if you lag out you have to get your stuff back.

This.

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cuhlamities Jan 15 @ 8:01pm

Ive been stuck in this loop of being shadowbanned since November, I first noticed I was shadow banned when there was pure hackers in my lobby's. after about 10 days i got my first match without a hacker. I checked the site and it said that there was no limited matchmaking or limitations on my account. The next game was full of hackers. after that following game i was banned for another 10 days, Then the same thing happened again. It has been 30 days of my account being in a limited matchmaking state, Activision support tells me there is nothing they can do and just shut down my tickets I make when I contact them.

they even tell me to review the boosting policy. But that makes no sense cus ive been playing solo... So i ask them about that and then they say that they actually cant see the reason ive been banned, So clearly someone is lying. Why would I be told to review the boosting section if they cant see why im banned.

anyways thats my rant., im forsure done with the CoD franchise.

Last edited by cuhlamities; Jan 15 @ 8:03pm

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claybaby

Jan 15 @ 10:05pm

Originally posted by Lord Vampair:
I had no problem yesterday. I updated the game today and I have got the same issues.
I was trying to play zombies and my character was costantly teleported in the water killed/stucked in the map.

Now I have checked my state and I have found out this:

NOT ELIGIBLE FOR APPEAL LIMITED MATCHMAKING Game(s): Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Campaign Call of Duty: Warzone Description: Your account is in a limited matchmaking state due to a potential violation. Unfortunately, we are unable to inform you when the account will exit a limited matchmaking state. You may check back here periodically to see if your status clears, or changes to a temporary or permanent suspension. Exiting a limited matchmaking state does not mean your account has been cleared of potential violations. Please review the Call of Duty Security and Enforcement Policy for more information.

Never been banned in 20 years of playing, because I don't use cheat.

Now my account is shadow banned as result of a "potential violation"... When I most play zombies, which is a single/co-op PVE mode.

I love how devs are able to break the game with every new update. They don't care about fixing the previous problems BUT they are always ready to sell new season passes with out of context skins, weapons and Fortnite inspired packs.

24€ to get few silly skins or weapons, or 20€ to buy pay-to-win gobblegums, when we have been waiting an achievement fix since 2 months... And now we are getting shadow banned without reasons too.

I love it, really. You think the series can't get worst but they find the way to aggravate it, always.

I too can confirm that I am stuck in a repeat shadow ban loop after only playing zombies. The first time a saw that the suspension was lifted i wanted to be cautious so i only played a single SOLO game of zombies on liberty falls. Then, i exited the game. I logged on later that day to see that i was back in "LIMITED MATCHMATING" again. It makes no sense whatsoever. All I've ever gotten are email replies from bots at activision. Nothing is done, and honestly i don't think anyone even works for activision support currently. Their Twitter hasn't posted in over 2 MONTHS! This shadow ban loop has occurred to me 3 consecutive times now. The automated emails from fake employee bots reference the "boosting" section of their security policy. This is complete joke since I've been playing SOLO.

The only logical advice I can give you is to play another game and DO NOT give this company another dime of your money. They don't respect you, and they don't plan to.

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