Rockstar Banned this GTA V PC Player for 'Nothing'

Video creator and avid GTA V player Ben Buja was recently banned for what he says was unwarranted. The ban has restricted his access to the game, not allowing the single-player or GTA Online modes to be accessed.

He had this and a few other things to say about the ban:

"I contacted the Rockstar support on Twitter and submitted a ticket on the Rockstar Socialclub website. I didn’t get a response yet and I’m still completely locked out of the game."

[sergons]

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no F was given.

[Dabigsiebowski]

Well I hope this happens to you and no one cares.

You can't just ban someone who paid for the game for nothing.

[ifistbrowni]

assuming that the player actually did "nothing."

I know most time people get in trouble for something they claim "I did nothing wrong."

I remember in High School, I would get suspended all the time and come home and tell my parents, "i didn't do anything."

[LaWiiG]

Were any E's given? Maybe G's? Just "F" heh?

[SonyMontana]

Lmao they banned him just to see his cry. Now we all get to laugh at that nerd.

[KryptoniteTail]

There shouldn't be any reason to ban single player. It shouldn't even be possible.

[Lon3wolf]

It wasn't down to SP though:

I only joined the server briefly as I was between doing different stunt setups with my brother. I wasn’t directly in contact with the hackers, my brother was. Apparently they could apply ragdoll forces to players and kill them over and over, even when the victims are in passive mode. It’s also possible to kill players in someone elses name. To force the victim to report the player they think are hacking.

[Antifan]

The wondrous beauty of DRM. It's the future of gaming.

[SilentNegotiator]

*cries for gaming*

[starforge71]

I believe it is rockstars fault for not anticipating how easy it is to hack/mod on pc so i blame them for the hackers/modders on all formats

[LaWiiG]

I think the biggest thing is: Rockstar says it won't ban, promises that the use of mods won't prohibit gameplay, and...what do you know...they still banned. They've got the money.

[YodaCracker]

Every time someone's banned it's for "nothing" or "no reason".

[LaWiiG]

That's the jailhouse mentality. But, I do think that for some people, honest ones out there, it sucks when you are roped in with the bad guys.

[MCTJim]

yup..I'm figuring the "nothing and "no reason" is something we are not "hearing" about.

[Scouse_Wayne]

Actually you can be banned for just being in the wrong lobby, if you've joined a lobby that has a hacker in it and that hacker gives you money, even if you asked for it or not, you'll get noticed by Rockstar for instantly having extra money without doing anything to have earned it, even if you offer the hacker a good time over voice chat for money, you still technically haven't earned that money in a legitimate way. even if you ask Rockstar to take back the money, one guy was given 100M from a hacker, he got on the phone right away to Rockstar because he feared he would get into trouble for this, and Rockstar went ahead and banned him. this is just how they did on the ps3 when the game came out, anyone who was given the hackers money was also put into a cheaters pool, and could only play with, well no one, was meant to be you could only play with other cheaters but every single lobby was empty. on the ps3 I was put into the cheaters pool for using the sniper rifle to kill people while they where in their apartments or tanks, you can only do this from really long distance. it's not a cheat, if I can do this from just playing the game, no exploit, no cheat, just know where to shoot. lol

[Donnywho]

I owned a jet in my garage on Ps3, and was in random lobbies where money was being given to anyone and everyone including me and never had any consequences.
I lost my jet after the second update aimed at illegal ownership and they took away everyone's bogus money after a while but Rockstar let us keep all the things we had purchased with it. I don't know when they started hammering people, but it wasn't back on Ps3 when it first came out.

[diesoft]

Rightfully banned or not, it is unacceptable to be locked out of the single player game you paid for. I get being banned online for hacking/exploiting/whatever but this guy should ALWAYS have access to the single player portion of a game he BOUGHT.

I wish rockstar could investigate better than the little they actually do. Friend of mine had a 30 day online ban for getting money on the 360 during that whole initial money glitch fiasco. He didn't ask for it or want the money but rockstar didn't care. Pretty lame if you ask me BUT at least he could play the single player portion.

[LaWiiG]

Yeah, this time there was no single player.sucks

[wannabe gamer]

he could just try to play offline without the social club login which is keeping him from playing since he is banned via that system

[ChrisW]

I've got a feeling we will never know the whole, true story.

[rezzah]

People are actively getting banned for obtaining "cheating" money whether if they are at fault or not. The reason? Because they want you to pay real money to obtain their in-game money.

[KimoNoir]

these complaints are to be taken for a grain of salt. like yelp, people can blabber about bullshit and lie to themselves and ACTUALLY believe it! I'm not saying this is true at all times but, honestly, this is to be taken for a grain of salt.

ive seen the most funniest negative reviews which are incredbily fraudulent posted on Yelp - complete utter bullshit that is completely false because the person did not get their way.

[Hold_It]

Hopefully Rockstar goes bankrupt. They really are a bunch of assholes, who's only decent games are Red Dead and Max Payne. I love how they made GTA Online pay to win, and punish people for playing GTA the way you should play GTA.

[Wonder_Punk]

So why did this guy get an article written about him? There is no proof that what he is saying is true. In fact it sounds very likely that he knew exactly what he was doing. LoL, how many times do you think Rockstar hears this same crap from the hackers they ban, "I just accidently joined a group of a bunch of hackers that my brother hangs out with! Unban MEEEE!"

[wannabe gamer]

I bet he hasnt even bothered to try playing the game offline so it doesnt require signin to rockstar social club. herp derp waaaahh wahhh

this is a bit concerning cause lastnight i was playing and at some point there must have been a hacker in the session i was in. i played for a while in the same session and slowly everyone leaves to do other things and it ends up with just me or maybe 1-2 other ppl. so i go to LS Customs in thje middle of the city and i see a airplane with the floats to land on water blown up in the parking lot and then i see something else on other side of the lot and i go over and its a freaking monster truck with giant huge SUV blinged out wheels on it with giant street racing tires! its different from the one you can really buy and own. this thing has those rims and its like a full cab truck with american flags on it and it has red white and blue flag paint with 2 american flags on the back and a horn that plays a portion of the national anthem... and it says on the side "The Liberator"

so i did what anyone would do i got in and i drove all over the city smashing NPC cars and getting in epic police chases and just having a blast. still have no idea who spawned it in or when during the session. after like 15 mins i guess my game just crashed and it was late so i went to bed.

the point is...how are they detecting hackers...and how are they avoid false positives with people that arent hackers but are caught in crossfore of their shenanigans or legit do not know that something like i found isnt part of the game naturally. if we can be punished for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time then wtf is to say anyone is safe. esp if hackers are able to spoof another players name and make it look as if they are the ones causeing the problems in the sesison. this would make player reporting USESLESS as no one would really know if they are reporting the actual hacker and R* system would be entirely broken.

[paul-p1988]

I got as far as reading that he joined a hacked server and already made my judgement. People on consoles got banned for being in hacked servers, it's fair that the same applies to PC, can't have one rule for one and one for the other.

I actively avoid hacked servers on the console version, it's REALLY easy to do so, so don't join the hacked server in the first place and you'll be fine.