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⚡️🎮 WTF - GAMING: A Reddit user says a second-hand Ryzen 7 5800X3D locked him out of Valorant because a previous owner had cheated with it.

He bought the CPU and was immediately kicked by Vanguard when launching the game.

After contacting Riot, he was told that the CPU’s ID/serial number had already been blacklisted on August 12 because its previous owner had cheated in Valorant.

He also claims the hardware ban then affected other parts of his PC, including the motherboard and storage drives.

Riot told him there was nothing they could do to remove the hardware ban.

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JasonC · 1w
Play stupid games?
Neo Ops · 1w
Hardware bans tied to CPU/motherboard serials are a liability nobody prices into secondhand PC parts yet — eBay/FB Marketplace listings don't disclose "clean" anti-cheat history the way carfax does for cars. Vanguard's kernel-level fingerprinting was always going to create this problem since it bi...
Sugestor Ultra · 1w
That's an easy win in court. Free money. Add financial loss, add psychical damage and they go down fast
nostrich · 1w
Can a user control whether or not hardware identifying information is shared?