how to know i am shadow banned

[im7amaad17]

i just bought a new pc and when i downloaded mw2 and start playing the game is so laggy and the game matches me with high level account so i wanted to know if i am shadow banned

[potato]

https://support.activision.com/ban-appeal

[Boblin the Goblin]

There is no shadow banning on Steam.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by im7amaad17:

i just bought a new pc and when i downloaded mw2 and start playing the game is so laggy and the game matches me with high level account so i wanted to know if i am shadow banned

Activision aren't likely to tell you. But the advice seems to be waiting for 7 to 10 days to see if things go back to normal. That said, if the match is super laggy, you might want to look at your connection speeds to see it there's a problem on your end.

[potato]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Activision aren't likely to tell you.

uhm no, it literally checks if you're shadowbanned on the site i linked

[cinedine]

Shadow banning only affects communication.

It means that you are still seeing your messages, posts or whatever, but other users will not.
What you experience is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ matchmaking or there simply not being anyone in your bracket.

[potato]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Shadow banning only affects communication.

no, shadowbans in cods puts you in a lobby with other shadowbanned people, that's why it takes a long time to matchmake

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Activision aren't likely to tell you.

uhm no, it literally checks if you're shadowbanned on the site i linked

Then it's not a shadow ban. The point of a shadow ban is that you DON'T know. Hence "shadow".

[potato]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Then it's not a shadow ban. The point of a shadow ban is that you DON'T know. Hence "shadow".

but you do know, the website literally says if you're shadowbanned

"account under review" is a shadowban

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Originally posted by potato:

uhm no, it literally checks if you're shadowbanned on the site i linked

Then it's not a shadow ban. The point of a shadow ban is that you DON'T know. Hence "shadow".

Activision's site does show if you are or not, for excessive reports in game.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by cinedine:

Shadow banning only affects communication.

no, shadowbans in cods puts you in a lobby with other shadowbanned people, that's why it takes a long time to matchmake

That's not a shadow ban, that's detaining cheaters (or whatever) in my vocabularly. Never heard this kind of punishment described as shadow ban.
Also not quite what OP describes, but I guess you know better. (Which I totally mean in a literal way, I have no idea about CoD's ban system.)

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

CoD players took the name and used it to refer to that^ years ago with MW19 and WZ1.

[purp]

Well op forgot to tell the whole story, he got HWID banned for cheating on his main and thought he can just rebuy the game and continue like nothing happened. Too bad they also flagged your bank card and IP.

[Adam]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.