..so...
Let me get this right...
- Kid cheats at game
- People in charge of game ban him
- Kid goes on YouTube, cries and decides to put it online anyway because clicks = cash
- Kid doesn't want to lose his account even though he can create a new one.
No sympathy. I'm no nutter, but you have to learn that if you f**k up, there's consequences. Putting your tears online to bag yourself more money, then getting your mom to talk to the papers for even more cash? Sod off.
(, Thu 7 Nov 2019, 11:02, Reply)
Apparently the video of him blubbing about him being banned from a computer game netted him around £20,000
He can create a new account, but he's been 'hardware banned', which means that the client on his PC will report back to Fortnite HQ if it detects that his computer is trying to access the servers (a bit like a MAC address). Not that it really bloody matters when he's got enough money to buy a whole new PC or ten.
No doubt they'll overturn the ban in a few weeks, anyway. As him up there ^ said - cunts, the lot of them.
(, Thu 7 Nov 2019, 11:11, Reply)
If I was epic,
I'd get a 3d artist to recreate his crying face as a free cosmetic DLC, and create a contract whereby he can only be unbanned if he licenses that image to them to use for $1.
He can play, but everyone gets to taunt him with his own crybaby bullshit.
(, Thu 7 Nov 2019, 13:01, Reply)
Valve had the right idea.
wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Cheater's_Lament
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jonbob loves you, Thu 7 Nov 2019, 21:32,
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It's not based on MAC address, though. Not completely at least.
It takes a hardware fingerprint of the entire PC, much the same as Windows does and looks for specific vendor information/serial numbers. If enough serial numbers match, it decides that the machine is blacklisted and denies it access to the Server.
(, Fri 8 Nov 2019, 9:58, Reply)
hmmm, sounds a bit like the long string used to identify your browser, wonder if they just cobble together a few parameters
Seem to recall its possible to manipulate those used when browsing
(, Fri 8 Nov 2019, 18:04, Reply)