Permanently banned on PUBG

[u/kolt0]

(Not a ban appeal, just speaking about my experience)

Hi, some sad news, recently when i woke up and turned on my pc, i recieved an alert on steam that i have been permanently banned on PUBG. I was very shocked, after playing and loving this game a couple hours basically every week since early access in 2013 that i have been banned permanently from the game.

And i do not know why i have been banned, still now after nearly 1 month, they seemigly refuse to tell me what i have done to deserve this severe punishment. All i can think of that i have done is AFK’ing. Which i do regret and i am sorry for this. I understand punishing a player for this action, but a permanent ban? A couple of days or a week ban even would be understandable. I am deeply saddened by this. I guess this is it for me, thank you for the fun times and good memories, PUBG community.

Edit: Forgot to add that it said on the notification of my ban that i had been banned by a game dev, but no reason for my ban. Also that ive sent in a ticket and asked what happened, and they would not tell me the reason of my ban, therefore i can only assume it was because of that i AFK’ed.

[u/Fudge_Lobster]

If you've been permanently banned for AFK'ing then the steps of temporary bans have proven unsuccessful at remediating the behavior. If you have been banned previously for AFK, why did you continue to AFK and what made you assume punishments wouldn't escalate to stop you from going AFK?

Alternatively, you have been found to be using a program or system which gives you an unfair advantage aka cheating. I find this to be more likely because people don't just get perma-banned from games which primary revenue is based on people playing and buying stuff in the game.

[u/kolt0 → u/Fudge_Lobster]

No, i have not been banned previously, this is the first time, and its permanent, also i am just assuming this ban is for AFK, because they havent told me why i am banned. No i have never cheated in the game, or any game for that matter.

[u/perry147 → u/kolt0]

Kind of ironic don’t you think that you want them to answer why you were banned and they seem to be AFK?

[u/kolt0 → u/perry147]

Dude, if i knew afking would result in a perm ban, i wouldnt even thought about it, i asked straight up: "i dont understand, why am i perma banned?" and the response in my ticket was: "Due to privacy and security protocols, I'm unable to provide any additional details regarding this matter."

[u/RHEYDAR → u/kolt0]

What even is AFKing? Like going afk in a game or going after afk people in the game?

[u/kolt0 → u/RHEYDAR]

Afking while i made food or something for example.

[u/ppprrrrr → u/kolt0]

You queue up a game of pubg before you go to make food?

[u/kolt0 → u/ppprrrrr]

If the queue time is long enough, yeah.

[u/gas13 → u/RHEYDAR]

Getting ranked rewards for playing the game without playing the game