Top 5 DUMBEST Online Gaming Bans! | Fact Hunt | Larry Bundy Jr

[@Larry]

Special thanks to *_Dodgy Kebaab_* for helping write and edit this episode. Say _"Hello You!"_ to him here: kzbin.info

[@Nipplator99999999999]

Oh yeah, my momma

[@robbiewalker2831]

I miss the Cha-Ching sound, as well as a reason pointed out with said sound. Because it helps me see when the relevant topic is over.

[@FreeArtFreestheWorld]

Larry, here's a hot take for you: in Dead by Daylight, the devs have threatened to ban players that target other players who wear the Pride flag in-game. The game is a slasher game, so how does you as the killer implicitly target someone?

[@AmstradExin]

Love you, thin Larry! :)

[@dodgykebaab]

Hello sailors!

[@Safersephiroth777]

Getting banned from a game you don't even own is glorious.

[@dabillya6845]

not hard to be banned.

[@razatronidiotics9430]

Ah yes being banned from a game you haven't played, the best way to make sure that said person never plays the game

[@Daedalus4]

It's been like years now, and seeing skinny Larry still surprises me every time. That was a hell of a transformation.

[@Larry]

Thank you, had to do something, probaly wouldn't be here now if I hadn't.

[@realstreetjesus1953]

@@Larry It's no easy feat man! Good job and loved the video.

[@Larry]

@ridikar i will do when ive hit my goal, yeah! which is about 19lbs now.

[@zombiehiphop]

@@Larry yeah agree with these lot, great to see you in shape and still producing top quality content after all these years

[@HokeHogan92]

@ridikar If I remember from a Facebook post, it was pretty much just calorie counting. Which is crazy to lose that much weight just eating like 2500 calories a day

[@Volcanic_Rave]

Shoutouts to the people who got banned from Smash for 3DS online for using Peach, tricking the game into thinking they were hacking items into for glory thanks to Turnip

[@DaCaptainDerpy]

EXACTLY!

[@NeoGraena]

Bruh

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

I’m not even sure what you were trying to say. Can someone translate?

[@Volcanic_Rave]

@@JoshuaJacobs83 Peach’s down b, Turnip (technically called Vegetable but everyone just says Turnip) has a very low chance of pulling a Mr. Saturn or a Bob-Omb. For Glory normally doesn’t have items spawn, but if you’re using Peach you can still get the Mr. Saturn/Bob-Omb because that’s just how Turnip works. At launch, this confused the game, and picking Peach had a chance of banning the player from online forever.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

@@Volcanic_Rave Thank you. I haven’t played it, so I wasn’t sure if the wording was off or my understanding of the game terms.

[@LordHonkInc]

When I read the title card "banned for complaining about a character" and then saw Street Fighter gameplay, the first thing that came to mind was "did DSP make it into this list?"

[@Ramsey276one]

XD LAG-chan cannot compete Lousy At Gaming Yes, Dale, we see the LAG

[@faizalf119]

The thing is, the complaint was legit. Unlike dsp idiotic skill

[@panthekirb7561]

DSP is based and wholesome

[@LordHonkInc]

@@panthekirb7561 You're entitled to your own opinion, no matter how wrong it is :P

[@panthekirb7561]

@@LordHonkInc ' ^ '

[@TenguBlade]

I remember when kids would get banned from Overwatch just for playing a character in competitive and not switching. What made it extremely dumb was that people didn’t even have to speak or behave toxicly to get reported (and subsequently banned) for playing who they wanted.

[@DerpySnake]

Didn't people get banned for using a single D.Va voiceline? You know, voicelines they added to the game to be used.

[@seriousspikesam7770]

Ironically, there was also a streamer who reported another player for stream sniping him and throwing the matches as Symmetra. Instead, he got a ban for abusing the report system... oh joy.

[@PopeFireTheStarfireGod]

I had a week ban once becauae I didnt play orisa well enough in comp ..... I didnt even want to play her because I play support and just filled tank cause we didn't have shields

[@NilMortifey]

@@PopeFireTheStarfireGod Happens a lot in League of Legends and DOTA too. you have a bad game and you get reported for being a troll player and banned,

[@specialopsdave]

@@DerpySnake There is a difference between using a voiceline, and using it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over

[@BR-jw7pm]

I know this wasn’t a perma-ban but Blitzchung being banned for supporting the hong kong protests was stupid. Activision/blizzard didn’t want to dare risk losing that sweet, sweet chinese profit because of those pesky human rights…

[@phoenixomega3641]

now they risk losing profit for their game being stale.

[@samusx2175]

And they're still hemorrhaging players, millions are leaving WoW to play FF14.

[@blooperreloaded5526]

@@samusx2175 So much so that FFXIV literally SOLD OUT. If that doesn't say something about the state of WoW, I don't know what does.

[@phoenixomega3641]

@@blooperreloaded5526 I think it says even more about the state of the company that they can't keep up their main money maker. Are they just gonna leech from Call of Duty now? If so, how long before Activision kicks them to the curb and they get assimilated into Tencent?

[@blooperreloaded5526]

@@phoenixomega3641 I mean Blizzard is already a shell of what it once was, assimilating it into Tencent will pretty much be the final nail in their coffin.

[@iamdarkyoshi]

I'm really surprised the "banned for playing the game in linux" thing didn't make this list

[@mistertagomago7974]

Jfc

[@Creative_Welshman]

Explain

[@K1ttenface]

@@Creative_Welshman The Linux version of Steam uses "Proton", a compatibility layer for playing Windows games natively. Easy Anti Cheat detects Proton as cheat software.

[@mornananchy495]

@@K1ttenface Didn't EAC use to support Proton before being bought out and canceling support, or am I thinking of a different anti-cheat?

[@angrycinnabon2956]

Especially with the steam deck on the horizon, which runs Linux and i assume is going to use proton being a thing soon.

[@thiagotrentin7343]

"No one plays a game serious when naked!" You've never seen the Dark Souls fanbase right? If someone is naked, be very afraid of them!

[@truekurayami]

I had the same thoughts involving Rust and ARK.

[@aiodensghost8645]

If your playing Minecraft PVP and come across a naked player you should also be wary

[@CassieRage3339]

@paloma piromana Or trolls, but absolutely yes

[@fireblast133]

naked players in Dark Souls A) Don't give two shits about meta, B) have more time on the game than you and your extended family combined, and C) give you every damn reason to be afraid.

[@SeNeturi]

Getting banned for playing Ubisoft game is more a blessing than a punishment :D

[@bluegum6438]

In an online shooter, getting banned for hacking when you weren't is the sincerest form of flattery anyway

[@glennuno]

I... can't disagree, even if i own several ubisoft titles :p

[@SeNeturi]

@@glennuno tbh...same here xD

[@ccricers]

Let them try to ban me from playing Rayman games lol

[@spartanwar1185]

I mean i have to admit there are times when i genuinely enjoy For Honor

[@guntherhermann4225]

No mention for Friday the 13th's "Banned for killing a Twitch streamer" thing?

[@big_slurp4603]

Twitch and its consequences have been a disaster for video gaming

[@BinglesP]

@@big_slurp4603 Arcade Assassin moment

[@caucasoidape8838]

but who wouldn't want to kill the twitch streamer? lol

[@asdbanz316]

​@@caucasoidape8838 I remember case with girl helping Jason to win because he was her friend. And guy who was unsatisfied with that behavior insulted the girl. And IIRC she had another friend who is moderator/game developer. And since game record your voice chat (or it was text one?) ban was "justified"

[@trevorragan3572]

another one related to twitch happened in PUBG, someone killed a streamer (who was out in the open so they were asking for it), and the person who killed the streamer got banned for stream sniping, except they didn't even know they were a streamer.

[@shrimpbisque]

I know Larry doesn't really cover browser games on this channel, but this list reminds me a lot of something that happened in Neopets a long time ago. The system in charge of restocking the main shops screwed something up and ended up stocking a handful of Super Attack Peas in the food shop. Super Attack Peas were an extremely rare and powerful weapon, and they ended up going into one of the shops that sells common cheap food items. (Presumably the restocking algorithm picked the item because it had "pea" in the name and didn't bother to check item type or rarity before sending it along.) Quite a few users bought them before they were removed from the shop, and what did staff do? Apologize for the error and let the lucky few keep their peas? Delete all instances of the item bought during the offending timeframe? No, they just blanket banned everyone who bought one! People were pissed off, naturally; the userbase got punished for a staff fuckup. And then there were the complaints of people getting banned from the Neoboards for saying the word "horn". Not even "horny", just "horn". How the hell are you supposed to do a Uni RP without using the word "horn"?

[@BoopaKing]

It always baffles me how common it is for social games to ban common words. I've seen so many conversations derail into "Wait what" when some random, insignificant word gets filtered for no apparent reason.

[@Matt-md5yt]

I just read that in his voice, and yeah Neopets was wild

[@AlienCowThatMoos]

​@@BoopaKingWe're deep in 1984 double speak territory now where youtube creators are using new baby-sounding words in the place of real words that KZbin finds offensive. Like "un-alive," "pew pew" or "grapist."

[@jirikleij9290]

I've got a curious case of being banned myself. It was way back while playing Halo 3 on the 360, where I joined up with some random guys in matchmaking. We weren't really playing the game as much as we were helping each other unlock achievements. As such I connected 3 more controllers and used the guest account to allow these temporal profiles to join the online game. Everything went well for a while, until I suddenly got the message I was banned for a month for XP boosting. So far, nothing too weird. However, I did not get just one ban warning. No, I got about ten messages telling me I got banned, per active account. Meaning ten bans for my actual profile, and thirty for the guest accounts. This was weird enough already, and a bit unsettling. But weirder still, despite being "banned" I was still able to play online with the guys, discussing the fact I got banned while playing matchmaking... If that wasn't weird enough. The next day, I booted up my console, started Halo 3, went to the matchmaking lobby, and sure enough there was a message informing me I was banned. And with this, I was unable to start the search for an online game. But, here's the kicker, the second I changed playlist, no matter the game type, I was able to play online once more. Obviously I wasn't going to try my luck and gain a perma ban, and just stayed away from online matchmaking for that time, but the fact I was banned without actually being banned is, to this day, the weirdest thing that has happened to me as far as getting the ban hammer is concerned. Maybe the system got confused for banning three guest profiles, or maybe something else was at play there. Either way, it was a strange and confusing thing that had happened, and I haven't heard of it happening to anyone else.

[@KnockOut101inc]

That happened to me back in 2007. me and a friend did that so we would be in a match with 8 people, but just us 2 controlling the characters. We both received temporary bans as well

[@jesuszamora6949]

And online gaming continues to not be worth the headache.

[@Dargonhuman]

Amen to that! The only online game I play anymore is RuneScape, and even then I keep all of my chats off or set to Friends.

[@jesuszamora6949]

@@Dargonhuman I'm much the same way with Second Life, the closest thing to an online game I bother with.

[@yoda908]

Last game I actually played was Destiny 1. After 3 times of trying to level up my character starting out only to assholes that were literally at level 14 I actually got into it. Then I tried GTA online and couldn't even get passed the very 1st mission because some online player kept killing me. So I just said F this online crap and just stuck with playing multiplayer with friends.

[@warrenjehosephat231]

I hate that, back in the 00s I had lots of fun playing online with friends and strangers, but now... it is just with friends in private games if at all.

[@yoda908]

Unfortunately nowadays you have to to have a playstation plus account in order to play online with friends.

[@CoalCoalJames]

Fun fact, Bethesda also banned people from fallout 76 for having (legitimate) copy's of the best gear in the game. It was part of the overreaction to the dev room exploit.

[@ZipplyZane]

It's incompetent design to have a dev room like that in the game anyway, I'd say. Sure, it can be convenient before launch, but you should remove it later. Just give devs the ability to spawn items. Heck, you can still have a dev room where that's the only place it is possible. And, you know, run it on a separate server for testing.

[@Draknfyre]

They also permabanned some players who found, privately tested, and let them quietly know of additional exploits that existed, so they could patch them out before they became public knowledge. They banned them for, get this, exploiting. Just so this sinks in: They banned players for helping them find and fix exploits.

[@Draknfyre]

@@ZipplyZane "Incompetent design" is FO: 76's MO.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@Draknfyre they could have just wrote that 600 words essay :D

[@Wepospalient]

I was perma banned from smite a few years back for downloading a skyrim mod. Like an actual mod for skyrim, not at all related to smite. Queued for a match while it was downloading and was immediately banned for "using cheating software" with no chance for repeal.

[@glennuno]

I feel for you... Ban Appealment system is going out, because why bother with customer support, when you can just get rid of the customer? They got their increased numbers and stats, for another "glorious" staff meeting saying everything is A-OK! :P

[@mire873]

That would be stupid if they thought FNIS/TES5edit etc was cheating software

[@Wepospalient]

@@mire873 yeah that's probably exactly what happened. I emailed their support and explained everything and just got the copy paste "We will never appeal a cheating ban for any reason."

[@glennuno]

@@mire873 More common than you know, much like a single russian warframe player who got perma banned for, get this, having an entire different russian guild report him. Did they check the claims? not at all, not a SINGLE microsecond was spent. When you can spam-report a single player into banishment from the game.. you know something is really fucking wrong with Game Companies, and that's they should just remove the Game out of the name. They've become pure and simple companies, intent on a single goal... milk your dead dessicated dried up husk of cow even more, beating the absolute fuck out of the bones of the horse that you came in on, and absolutely mercilessly rawdawg your behind until they can see straight through you, for that extra dollar. Fuck.. that's why there's sales on MMO's "ingame money" from time to time, because that's ALL they care about.

[@natsume-hime2473]

@@Wepospalient After Hi-Rez did Tribes Ascend so dirty paired with them never appealing a cheating ban in their cash cow SMITE... Yeah they can go screw themselves,

[@LunarNeedle]

Larry says cheater and shows a picture of Billy Mitchell. Keepin' it cool~

[@ClockWithoutNumbers]

To be honest a game show cheated Larry out of a win when they gave him a right-handed control setup. It would be cool to see Mitchell get banned from Pac-Man but alas he can only get banned from posting high scores and taking credit for others high scores.

[@iwavrQwpX4uB39nilBlQ]

ew anime

[@ClockWithoutNumbers]

@@iwavrQwpX4uB39nilBlQ you had to ask, didn't you?

[@mayborneflower]

@Phillip Goings I hate Mitchell as much as the next guy but he didn’t do any to Apollo, who deserves no pity, beyond making him take down his videos.

[@mathieuleader8601]

he was parodied in the cartoon network cartoon regular show as a giant head with really skinny arm

[@lymmea]

I absolutely do not know why, but the more cheeky and affectionate and drawn out the "hello you~" at the start of a Fact Hunt episode, the more serotonin my body produces. I just can't help smiling every time. And that's on top of my enjoyment of the actual episodes themselves! Thank you for the tiny nuggets of joy, Larry!

[@alexanderchippel]

Anyone: The Chinese Government is commiting human rights violations. Blizzard: Welp, looks like you can't play this $60 game you paid for. Nope, no refunds.

[@KouD3Graw]

Anyone: The Chinese Government is commiting human rights violations. ACTIVISIONblizzard: Welp, looks like you can't play this $60 game you paid for. Nope, no refunds. correction

[@LunaMinuna]

@@KouD3Graw 1.Who the fuck are you? 2.His comment made perfect sense get the fuck out 3. Really. Get a life

[@Poet482]

ActivisionBlizzard deplatforms people for saying they want a free Hong Kong. Because ActivisionBlizzard loves those communism dollary-dos.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

"I ignored human rights violations in China and all I got was this cheaper t-shirt"

[@trinidad17]

At least they are not calling fascists people complaining against their support for genocide, yet. Low bar, I know.

[@magustg1]

Never forget that Blizzard is complicit in Chinese human rights atrocities.

[@ShotaroAsakura]

So are Disney and many more "woke" companies.

[@alphagiga4878]

@@ShotaroAsakura huh someone made a prediction that china would take over in 2023 it looks like it's coming to fruition sadly

[@BJGvideos]

It baffles me how so many people continue to support them after that bullshit. Any of these companies. How does anybody buy Nestle stuff any more? People are idiots

[@VossMarionette]

China number1

[@vetreas366]

@@BJGvideos It's because people are not always mired in politics and just want to do grocery shopping.

[@n0isyturtle]

I once got banned from PUBG for saying the devs were geniuses when a dev was in the server chat. Clearly thick-skinned totally stable geniuses

[@prawnk1ng]

The mk11 player should’ve called himself Goomba Stomp.

[@hdofu]

No that’d give Neverrealm an excuse to ban him on grounds of bringing up an outside ip.. this way it was completely baseless and total incompetence on Neversoft’s part. *edited so please stop fussing*

[@akumaswrath6663]

Nah should have been called StephenNotStephanie

[@zer0stars]

Wouldn't it have been funny if everyone in the tournament customized their loadouts and just played Sheeva dittos with the same loadout name as that?

[@MegaDudeman21]

@@hdofu Netherrealm*

[@zerotheero]

@@hdofu what Neversoft got anything to do with MK11?

[@Blue-ke5sb]

Oh hey, RDR2. I got a month long ban and my character deleted for that exact reason. Not just a rollback - a straight ban and deletion. I stopped playing after that.

[@PartnershipsForYou]

I don’t think you’re missing anything

[@MrDevious88]

I'm surprised that making the gold even harder to get in game didn't deter you before.

[@prime_optimus]

@@PartnershipsForYou Ok Mr GTA fanboy.

[@ArcherBodkin]

One of many reasons why I never bother with online gaming.

[@Dargonhuman]

You mean 5 of many reasons, right? Or were you referring to a specific entry and forgot to cite it?

[@Dargonhuman]

@@BL00DYME55 He specifically said "one of many"...

[@CheapBastard1988]

@@Dargonhuman "Possibly being banned for stupid reasons" is one reason why not to bother with online gaming.

[@pferreira1983]

Ah I used to be alone like you once upon a time...then Covid lockdown happened. 😁

[@N_Moli]

Dan Hibiki isn't weak. He's just so OP that you would need to cheat just to master him.

[@LunaMinuna]

Street V Dan:You wrang?

[@budgetcoinhunter]

Dan had a legit infinite with his Gadoken and V-skills. They actually had to make his fireball randomly *stronger* to fix it!

[@thecunninlynguist]

Larry Sundays are the best. Let's hope that isn't a bannable offense

[@mikethetowns]

Eyyy, second time Iv'e seen ya tonight haha.

[@ClockWithoutNumbers]

Don't show this comment to Peter Molyneux.

[@LOLquendoTV]

In a Geordie Accent, Sunday rhymes with Bundy

[@NickNackItaliano777]

@@LOLquendoTV As well as in a Scottish accent

[@randomcatname7792]

You've just been banned from Gameranx for daring to say Larry may make better lists

[@samfrancisco6108]

Hi! Thanks so much for the captions, Larry! Fact Hunt is absolutely my favorite thing on KZbin, and it shows enormous generosity of spirit that you take the time to caption these for those of us who need it. Thank you!

[@Larry]

My pleasure!

[@otakubullfrog1665]

Yet another reason to join the off-line local multiplayer master race: you don't need the developers' permission to play the game you bought.

[@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00]

How many games offer offline multiplayer these days tho?

[@otakubullfrog1665]

@@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00 Nintendo still keeps it real in that department.

[@spartanwar1185]

Honestly i prefer fighting against bots rather than people, much less stressful, and i (usually) get more control over how hard they kick my ass Too bad most games either don't have bots at all, or have shitty or otherwise very very limited bots This is why i still go back to games like Unreal Tournament '99, Where the AI can actually be your equal, which is the gold standard i figure all multiplayer games should be able to achieve

[@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00]

@@spartanwar1185 Very little AAA games provide bots or local multiplayer (either co-op or competitive) because the people at the top only care about maximizing their profit since most shareholders only care about maximizing their investment. If they provided bots, that's an option for one to try out the multiplayer without anyone else having to buy the game, so one might pester their friends and/or family to buy the game as well so they can play together, same with local multiplayer, and that translates into a loss of profit. From what I've seen and heard, these companies eliminate all other options except for the ones that make them more $$$ these days.

[@GiordanDiodato]

COVID: HAHA no.

[@LorisNoKami]

Thank you for your decades of enriching this industry. Gaming as a culture would be infinitely poorer without you.

[@plaguis1391]

Decades?

[@LorisNoKami]

@@plaguis1391 Larry has been covering video games since the 90s. Even had a few TV shows in the UK back in the day.

[@RedFlameFox]

Well, it happened that I received an email warning from Sony that I broke the On-Line rules of Singstar while I was playing InFamous 2, a single player game with no online interactions what-so-ever, also I used to play PS3 without being connected to the internet (having bad Internet connection and hating being contacted while playing my single player games). Never got banned (so far) but hey, weird things happen.

[@AmstradExin]

Ah, the good ol' Peter Molyneaux joke never gets old. :D

[@Victor-mm2jb]

"A franchise that has boasted more broken promises than a room full of Peter Molyneuxs" Hot damn that is straight savage.

[@FlameLFH]

I got perma-banned in Splatoon once for simply modifying ink colors only I could see. Thankfully I reverted that ban years later, lmao.

[@AdachiCabbage]

I thought with the Pokemon footage, you were going to mention how people were banned in Sword and Shield from 'disconnection' and many of the people perm banned were either because of natural internet disconnections, i.e. from the provider or a power outage or banned just because.

[@NATE-op9tq]

There's also the 30 minute ban in sun and moon for unintentionally trading to a hacked pokemon

[@blobbem]

Banned from a game that you don't even own. That's hysterical. How does that even happen?

[@KnockOut101inc]

Ubisoft... enough said

[@BrawlYoshi]

I'm predicting we're going to get the peach player who got banned from smash 4 for 115 years

[@crosstie417]

115 years? Why the arbitrary number?

[@BrawlYoshi]

@@crosstie417 I have no idea. Apparently the system thought he was cheating because it thought he was using items in For Glory. He wasn't tho, it was just Peach's down B.

[@GuestZer0]

Sheeva’s back already, huh? And another issue of being too powerful.

[@Crueltea]

I've honestly never had a problem with Sheeva, my one second Spine Burst into combo gets her every time

[@roamingnyiad]

@@Crueltea Lucky you then...for me, depends on who I use at the time and if the other person is being overly aggro OR overly spammy. Nowadays Sheeva might not be AS bad to face as she used to be then due to her being patched, but I never had the best luck facing her regardless.

[@ForeverLaxx]

That Dragon Stomp thing just reminded me of the Ermac infinite combo. Seems NetherRealm can't balance non-standard moves very well.

[@handless7677]

It's been nerfed a couple of months ago.

[@dylancross1039]

@@MisterCasket Especially since you could delay it so you can't just time it since the person jumping could just change up the timing

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

Alternative title top 5 games you should not play these unless it’s changed

[@xXponyinthestarsXx]

That was my takeaway, yeah.

[@blackhatfreak]

Incorrect

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

@@Nezhakiin that’s true btw cool natsu pfp

[@clockhanded]

9:15 If I was one of those announcers, I would have 100% been honest about what happened. It may go against some people's narrative that now is "the worst time in the world", but someone who is honest and does the right thing in this type of situation would find tons of support - and probably even rake in a good bit of money on gofundme

[@craigh5236]

Never been banned in a video game. Metallica got me banned in Napster though

[@asheronthedruid]

Does anyone else think that Lars Ulrich wouldn't look out if place in The Shinning?

[@dannytheman1313]

Odds are one of the devs really liked Shiva and felt that when she was being attacked they took it personally. That would also explain why Shiva was basically ham fisted into the game after a while.

[@misterzygarde6431]

Seeing that complaining about a character entry makes me wonder how much of a PR disaster there would be if people got banned off Smash Ultimate’s online for complaining about Byleth or if a guy got banned from a tournament by playing as Byleth with the name of TooMuchFE.

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

The smash games suck tbh with the censorship that goes on

[@misterzygarde6431]

@@og_3rd_st_saint_gat yeah I wish they kept the Teen rating

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

@@misterzygarde6431 I agree

[@BR-jw7pm]

While Nintendo has made some dumb mistakes in the past, i’d highly doubt they’d be dumb enough to do that

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

@@BR-jw7pm tbh I hope Nintendo goes into bankruptcy from suing a charity to a Nintendo plush channel

[@LatinoJackson]

Just avoid these companies' games altogether

[@ExtremeWreck]

And stick with what you can actually run on your laptop with no issues(the furthest you'll get on a laptop like mine would be PS1).

[@Kaimax61]

Add this larry: How about getting banned for saying a similar word to the N-word, when it's a word that has been used for centuries for that country. Even when phonetically it doesn't sound the same.

[@MedievalGenie]

The Spanish word for "black", perchance?

[@Damian_1989]

Is this about the indonesian word "ngga"?

[@hppvitor]

Rainbow Six Siege has records of people getting banned for naming the country of Nigeria in text chat

[@vonVile]

@@MedievalGenie It was a Japanese player saying "Run away!" in Japanese in a team shooter game.

[@Kaimax61]

Yes, its actually all of those - spanish word for black - The informal way of saying "No" in Indonesia - Saying a certain countries name - Saying the word "Run away" in japanese.

[@ValiantValium]

My favorite is still when Respawn banned a Japanese player from Apex because he spoke Japanese.

[@PokemonRules333]

Banning a Japanese player for speaking Japanese what the heck?

[@ValiantValium]

@@PokemonRules333 he typed "nigeru" which means "run away".

[@liquidladdy]

@@ValiantValium LOL

[@Ability-King-KK]

Somehow I'm not surprised that these reasons involve well known shitty people/companies.

[@PhaethonCrafts]

I got perma banned from Shin Megami Tensei Imagine because I stopped playing. When I asked if they could unban my account due to inactivity they said no because they didn’t trust me to not go inactive in the game again and said that inactivity was a perma ban offense.

[@edgarfriendly4731]

I got permanently banned on smite for exploiting an exploit that I had reported and told them exactly how it was performed and they did nothing about. So I decided to make them notice it. It was a glitch that basically instagibbed everyone you touched and made you nearly immortal. I used it in about 20 games in a row. I woke up the next day and my account was permanently banned and the glitch was patched out. They should have thanked me for bug testing and bringing it to their attention.

[@Retrogamer1246]

12:42 Love the usage of Knights of The Round's arcade music!

[@spicybeantofu]

That first one was upseting cause I am a packrat in games

[@Dargonhuman]

I feel that. I've had friends look at my RuneScape bank in screenshots and be like, "You need to clean that junk outta there!" Then I'm like, "But what if I suddenly need 255,879 Vials of Water?! You don't know!"

[@spartanwar1185]

Sometimes in shooters i end up with more ammo than usual because of the way i shoot, that of course being very ammo efficiently So it's pretty much a barrier invalidating my fundamental way of playing Good thing i don't play fuckall 76 (I have mad respect to people who can legitimately tolerate that busted game, though i think they should find something more worthwhile imo)

[@natsume-hime2473]

On the upside this doesn't happen anymore. Every complaint Larry dropped is not only dated, but borderline dishonest.

[@natsume-hime2473]

@@spartanwar1185 Actually Fallout 76 sorted out most of the early issues shown quickly. I got it only a couple of weeks after launch and experienced none of the issues Larry highlighted. He was also spread some falsehoods that major sites like Kotaku spread on the story, especially the bans for graphics mods. Although really modding an online game? Yeah expect to be banned. Still with the advent of Wastelanders, Steel Dawn, and Steel Reign, Fallout 76 has become a pretty good game. With a future expansion to The Pitt coming, it looks to keep getting better too.

[@kilmindaro3]

getting banned for being too good at the game is a badge of honor

[@resurgemas]

Even before Larry finished his first sentence about mortal kombat I knew exactly where that was going. Justice for the KWEEN

[@FenexDragonis]

My favorite ban was getting banned from overwatch for reporting a serious exploit I found an exploit in the matchmaking system, that could be used to get a handicap in competitive... Went and reported it though the proper channels.. 2 days later I log on to see I've been banned, with no clue as to why..so I contacted customer service to find out why and seek an appeal. Customer service says " you were banned for encouraging exploitation of matchmaking, due to the nature of this ban I cannot lift it, however only you account was banned so your welcome to make another if you wish to keep playing(on pc for context)" so basically they were saying. "Yea we know you were unfairly banned, so buy the game again if you want to play" So long story short, I was banned because bug reporting is done on a public forum.. people saw my post and started using it..

[@SarujinieUras]

Who remembers Homefront's multiplayer? It wasn't the best, but for me it was the gateway from COD to better games. The gunsounds, the ragdolls, the maps, I was in love, and it was the first game I ever reached max rank in (I'd never even prestiged in COD before then). I got banned from Xbox Live for a week because I was doing just too well one weekend. I still miss it :(

[@csolisr]

That reminds me of the time I posted on the Twitch chat of a streamer, that I feared the anime videos she put on before the stream would get her DMCA'd. The mod that day got so furious for that one comment that I remain permabanned from chat to this date

[@zakazany1945]

Excuse me, but wtf

[@LloydTavner]

Sounds like you irritated a simp

[@OurBenefactors]

To be fair, that mod sounds like a loser, but your comment also sounds like it was pretty worthless

[@Takeshi357]

Reminds me of a joke from the olden times. Messages you get for killing four people in a row in a multiplayer game: Quake 3: "Impressive" Unreal Tournament: "Ultra Kill" Counter-Strike: "Kicked by console"

[@RonaldReagansTickleMonster]

I'm always so surprised seeing Larry's transformation and how much weight he's lost. It's amazing

[@Larry]

thank you, still got a bit to go. but ill do a video when im done on it :)

[@roamingnyiad]

Ah yes, two things I love about this already: The Peter Molyneux dig about a room of Peter Molyneux's...and the Sheeva stomp being SO frustrating to face off against in MK11 even LARRY had to mention SOMETHING about it. I believe by later patches, Sheeva's stomp NO LONGER ends up on the opponent's head so often and they nerfed her bulkiness slightly, which comes from someone who's played MK11. Still, Sheeva is a char I DON'T like facing off against anyway, since all they did in MK11 was make it SLIGHTLY harder to spam with her...which is good enough to HAVE a chance at winning, but still frustrating all the same. Anyway, thanks Larry for covering the Sheeva stomp fiasco! I knew it couldn't be just me, but man is it a bad reminder of the fact the Sheeva stomp fiasco got SO out of control before they did anything about it.

[@ShawnCostandine]

Larry you're gonna get sued for that cheater picture. Lol

[@dodgykebaab]

If Billy the Cheat does look at this, then I’ll have him know this: I edited this video, I put that picture there; so if Billy wants to come after anyone - he can come after me and I’ll tell him to sod off (from the safety of England not being in the United States!)

[@ShawnCostandine]

@@dodgykebaab not all heroes wear capes.

[@superscatboy]

@@dodgykebaab Additional message for GBF in the unlikely event he is reading this: You're an adult that is suing people because they don't believe you legitimately got a high score in a videogame that one time because no evidence exists. Grow up, man. And tell Togers to do the same.

[@abdulmasaiev9024]

To be fair, if opening a lootbox was consistently a bannable offense, the overall gaming landscape would quickly become a better place.

[@ScottE-2]

For a split second I thought it was AVGN in the thumbnail with a ban hammer. Great video.

[@nerosteel5786]

same lol

[@lyledal]

Attempting to flush a dead hamster down a toilet sounds like a good way to clog a toilet.

[@belstar1128]

There should really be a law that makes it so you can't get banned from games and services you payed for unless you are spamming or hacking this is basically scamming or theft.

[@jenniferpruitt6534]

I remember when permabans were saved for ACTUAL cheating, not for petty things like conserving ammo or being "too good". Anyone else remember? Larry, please do a video on the worst cases of cheating in speedrunning. And how is that video on the SwordQuest contest going? Can't wait for that one!

[@ShiningEternity]

He was not banned for conserving ammo. He was banned due to being linked to a duplication glitch that created an obscene amount of ammo.

[@Markimark151]

Also some people were banned online in Red Dead Redemption over attacking NPCs in the game! How is it a crime to just killing NPCs in the game, even though you’re not attacking the other players!

[@mistkeyblade]

I was trying so hard to find this channel and I finally found it by searching for 'KZbinr who hates Peter Molyneux'

[@plaguis1391]

That PSO footage at the start gave me flashbacks I miss those days

[@random_gamer_guy82]

I've never been banned my on either platform but have been on the end of random abuse literally for nothing and never hesitated to report players for unnecessary hassle and grief. I live to have a laugh and genuinely try to engage in conversation but people are broken and give you agro for literally nothing.

[@Mooskym]

What about that time when a person from Hong Kong wanted freedom for their country? I would have put that at the number 1 spot!

[@Pehmokettu]

And some people still don't understand people who hate online multiplayer.

[@shenloken2]

10:40 - “Bare” also means “bear” here! Also appreciate the Sunset Riders music used for Red Dead Redemption.

[@forgottenalex]

The Red Dead treasure hack had pretty much the same issue on GTA online. Hackers were dropping large sums of money on player and teleporting them into walls so they couldn't move. Upon loading back into the online servers you would be banned for acquiring an impossible sum of money. Myself and 3 of my friends had this happen to us and even provided video proof of it happening when we submitted our ticket. All 3 of us were told by the help department rep that we could buy another copy for a separate account to play on the servers again, which ended up be a lie because our ips were banned. Rockstar simply doesn't care

[@user-fe8gx3ie5v]

I got banned from Rainbow Six Siege for having a soundboard and bantering with other players, despite the fact that people in that game often team kill, mic spam, insult others, etc. and don't get banned.

[@aaronwolk998]

I never worry about getting banned for nothing because I stopped playing PVP games after getting sick of hackers that just stop in front of you and let you shoot or stab them repeatedly before they decide get bored and finally decide to one shot you.

[@otaking3582]

Moral of the story: don't play games online ever.

[@WalkerVA]

I got banned by HiRez Studios for "ban evasion" because someone else in my house used to play smite and got banned a year ago. So they have a list of IPs they regularly scrub through and will ban ANYONE playing there months after the fact. You could have a roommate that got banned, moved out, and you'll get banned because they think you're that person trying to make multiple accounts to ban evade.

[@Sammmmmmmm617]

Netherrealm studios being terrible developers? Sounds like a normal Sunday to me.

[@jaxsonbateman]

RockStar originally (and possibly still does) the same thing with GTA Online. Before getting it, the only criticism I heard of the game was that you could get banned by doing nothing wrong, which I later found was from picking up money or items that a hacker had spawned. My friends and I ended up getting the game anyway - and haven't regretted it - but initially we were super on edge about possibly having money dropped on us and accidentally picking it up. Probably the biggest irony is that we've used an exploit in game to make tonnes of money - definitely in a way RockStar didn't intend - and never got banned for it, when we probably should've at least gotten a temp ban. Priorities are whack.

[@tatters8236]

I'm sad this didn't include the people banned from Temtem for such reasons as: Playing the game too much, playing partied up with a friend, trading tems using the in game trading system and leaving negative reviews on steam.

[@BurningAzure]

And that's what comes from trying to cash in on the dexit backlash.

[@zackschilling4376]

8:02 Man, KoF XIII is such a beautiful, amazing game, especially the Steam version. I remember I was playing the PS3 version and the Steam version and I was switching between Input 1 and 2 - 1 was the PC and Input 2 was the PS3 and there was a dramatic difference in graphic quality. It was a lot clearer than the console version. I remember looking for a comparison video years ago but couldnt find one. I wanted to make sure it wasnt something with my setup, or just something on my end.

[@M_Alexander]

I got banned from one of those kingdom clicker mobile games for... farming resources from other castles that looked abandoned. Apparently I attacked too many other castles in a game that did nothing to limit the ability to do so

[@killervacuum]

naked lady bait for bear trap is genius lol

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

This is the future I fear the most. Way too many things are already way too dependent on algorithms that already don't work properly and this is what they want for the future hahaha what a joke. This is why if everything becomes an online only game I'm out of gaming. I'm not going to invest in something I can lose at the drop of a hat because a stupid AI decides what I'm doing is not right for some random reason or another.

[@danielhale1]

When Origin started perma-banning people and revoking their libraries of games they paid for, simply because they got in an argument or were mentioned in an argument in the forums, that warned me away from Origin and I've never looked back. I've taken to calling it the Original Sin.

[@MotherKojiro]

The "after careful review" in the last one checks out; remember that time Ubisoft was caught in a massive abuse scandal, did an "internal investigation", and then nothing happened?

[@ashkitt7719]

"We investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing"

[@Upsetkiller456]

All of your videos have that *vibe* to them. The vibe of "I got to stay home from school sick today and there is this show that i watch while blasted on medicine and can't tell if I'm having a fever dream* vibe. It's great LOL

[@Larry]

lol, i get that a lot! :D

[@Upsetkiller456]

​@@Larry I think it's that awesome music you put in LOL, keep up the good content!

[@bkcollectorshop9631]

great content as usual! keep it up 👍🏼

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

Crazy how fast rockstar can crack down on hackers disrupting their micro transactions, but not basically any other kind.

[@Smonkus_]

In Dark Souls 3 you can force test data and emotes into other players’ inventories which will ban them, but not the hacker. I remember in DS2 you could also create weapons with impossible stats which would ban players too. Look up Malcolm Reynolds’ videos for a good laugh

[@piratebear3126]

My favorite example is also a Ubisoft one. Rainbow 6 Siege is a horribly toxic game and Ubisoft set up an auto kick and ban if you use bad words in text chat. Except it was completely Americentric, so when words in other languages matched with English bad words, like Black Ice (a popular skin in the game) in Spanish or Retreat in Ubi’s mother tongue French, you’d still get kicked and banned, also ruining your team’s chance of winning a highly competitive 5v5 game. Fun times

[@MemoxWasHere]

Hi, thanks for the subtitles. I can improve my English thanks to them.

[@TOFTS77]

Was surprised to see one of the biggest escaped the list. Star Wars Galaxies had an issue with currency dupers. The developers discovered they could track the duped currency and decided the easiest way to deal with the issue was to ban anyone on possession of the duped currency. The problem was that in Galaxies players can sell there goods as a vendor. So the duped currency had spread throughout the community. So when they dropped the ban hammer they caught an insane number of innocent players.

[@ddjsoyenby]

i'm glad i wasn't banned from fact hunt.

[@entity8019]

I got a 24 hour ban for saying, in an Amiga group on FaceBook "How appropriate, you fight like a cow". Yup, someone in jest gave me a Monkey Island insult, and the reply was enough for Zuckertits to shove me in jail. Twonk.

[@Dogtopian]

One of my friends got people banned from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege by innocently asking "Does anyone know the English slang for ciggarette?" on the game chat. Insta 24hr ban.....Legend!

[@IanBPPK]

There was an IRC channel that would do automated bans if you said "ciao." Not sure if still the case.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@IanBPPK ciao for life!

[@JASpiring]

Daft thing is, the answer there is "cig".

[@aidy6000]

My mate tried to get into Runescape but quickly got banned for botting, he wasn't he just spent an exceptional amount of time mining, in an exceptionally efficient fashion. He never played it again

[@theaychgee]

oh look another Raycon: Shadow Legends sponsorship... lol. Love your content and I watch ALL the videos. Keep up the good work!

[@ClexYoshi]

My favorite instance of something like this was how Final Fantasy 11 used to ban you for playing the game in Windowed mode.

[@BJGvideos]

But why?

[@the10ofdiamondscard]

Now wait a minute, Larry. You've made that Pong joke before in the intro.

[@wschnabel1987]

Buddy of mine got his Sony account permabanned because he annoyed a streamer for 'not playing the game right'. His crime? He favored swords and other melee weapons in some Warhammer 40k online shooter and the streamer thought this was taboo in a shooter and had a number of his followers report him en-mass. Sony unfortunately couldn't unban the account either, but did ban the guy for falsifying the report, and at least gave him a year of ps plus to start another one, after his had auto-billed earlier that month. He could still download the games he bought, just had to play them on the new account.