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Bethesda Bans Fallout 76 Player With More Than 900 Hrs Playtime For Having Too Much Ammo

Bethesda apparently has banned a legitimate Fallout 76 player who spent more than 900 hours in the game to farm rare materials, ammo, and other in-game loot. They banned the account for having too much ammo according to the ban report shared by the player.

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MisterLou1933d ago

7.8/10 Too Much Ammo - Bethesda

fiveby91933d ago

I think the ban was for knowingly exploiting a bug in the game not specifically for acquiring ammo through normal gameplay. But still, Bethesda should not be banning someone for an exploit their programmers and QA group let be released. A bit heavy-handed if you ask me.

bouzebbal1932d ago

Lol 900hours??? Don't think I played third of that all PS4 games combined.
Di** move from Bethesda.. Players should really stand up against this.

Gaming1011932d ago

Yep, 900 hours of the craptastic Fallout 76.
And guess what ladies, he's single!

Gamingsince19811933d ago

Banning him from the game was more of a mercy really, how any one can spend 9 hours on that game let alone 900 is beyond my understanding.

RizBiz1932d ago

I imagine 90% of that time was spent idling. Or maybe it's like UPlay on Steam, where even if you exit a game it keeps logging hours. I tried to refund a Ubisoft game once and they denied my claim because UPlay logged 10 hours of play, even though I was only actually in the game for around 30 minutes.

dumahim1933d ago

They did this man a favor.

Redrex70001932d ago

lmao
so true
who the fuk
play this game for that long

Evolve1933d ago

They spent less than this time developing the game

rainslacker1932d ago

Wonder who the other guy is going to play against now.:(

Daeloki1932d ago

Yeah they're banning the few people who are actually playing, all games have exploits at one point or another. They should just focus on fixing the exploit instead of shooting themselves in whatever remains of their legs

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ElementX1933d ago

They should be banned for putting in so much time into that game

Psychotica1933d ago

or any game for that matter. 900 hours is ridiculous.

JackBNimble1933d ago

I have put more time then that into Ark

AdmGenAladeen1933d ago

I got 820 in Bloodborne. It's pretty sad lol.

notachance1933d ago

it's normal for longterm games though, like cs:go, lol, dota2, minecraft

I myself have 5000+ hours on dota2, probably 10k+ if you count warcraft 3 mod dota

NarooN1933d ago

I have almost 4,000 hours in Audiosurf. Sure, that's over a period of like 10 years, but still. If you enjoy a game you aren't obligated to cut yourself off for some silly arbitrary reason lol.

That being said, 900 hours in Fallout 76 is a red flag I'd say lol

Michiel19891933d ago

Id put way more hours than that into Guild Wars 1 and old school wow, would happily do it again.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH1933d ago

I’ve put way more than that into Final Fantasy 11. Like 8 -10 years worth

Segata1933d ago

I have 800 in Xenoblade X

dragon_rocks1932d ago

*Slowly backs out of the room avoiding any eye contact with 997 hours in Monster Hunter World*

KwietStorm_BLM1932d ago (Edited 1932d ago )

Its completely normal for games that are consistently supported and updated over a number of years. I have 3000 hours in Warframe.

Necr0philiac1932d ago

900 hours is ridiculous for how long the game has been out. Ive put 900+ hours into a lot of games. I just seen that i have over 1000 on Rocket League but that is over years not months

kevinsheeks1932d ago

smh i have 900+ in rainbow six siege . . i did shock myself with that but i do enjoy playing it . . . i like to think im active though lol >.> just enjoy muh games is all

RizBiz1932d ago

@JackBNimble You're really generous! Not only did you pay for an ALPHA test instead of getting paid like you should be, but you gave the devs over 900 hours of bug testing.

MrVux0001932d ago (Edited 1932d ago )

"900 hours is ridiculous."

If you think 900 h is ridiculous...lol

I remember reaching well over 1500 hours in WoW (while the game was still good)... the most recent games i have invested quite some time into are RDR 2 (474 hours) and GOW (233 hours).

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EazyC1933d ago

I know, I guess 'one man's trash' etc

lelo2play1933d ago

Sad to say, but I have a lot of hours in Football Manager.
Don't know if it's 900.... but it's a lot.

nommers1932d ago

Pfft, y’all have some really short times. I put in 350,000 hours into that real life simulator that was all the rage 50 years ago.

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2pacalypsenow1933d ago

To be fair, he was banned for exploiting a glitch.

So it’s not just for “Having too much ammo”.

UltraNova1933d ago

A glitch is the devs fault, so instead of banning him they should have stripped that player from all assets gained through that exploit and a last strike warning. But Bethesda is not one to make ahem...the right choices these days.

ziggurcat1933d ago

while that may be, the onus is still on the user to not exploit those bugs to gain an unfair advantage in an online title. there would also be no way to determine how much ammo he would have attained through the exploit. he's also being disingenuous by saying he was banned for simply having too much ammo.

UltraNova1933d ago

Agreed. But if its just a cut and dry case of a glitch exploit then banning that guy was too harsh.

DJStotty1933d ago

No Ultra, knowingly exploiting or glitching any game, you get whatever the developers seem justifiable.

I knowingly exploited another game, and rightly got banned for 2 weeks.

UltraNova1933d ago

@DJ

What? Why does it have to be the "death penalty", why so harsh? The glitch exploit is the dev's fault! So with that in mind they should have punished the guy proportionally.

Palitera1933d ago

The devs made the player abuse the glitch? Wow, some powerful devs out there.

2pacalypsenow1933d ago

If it's in the TOS, he violated that agreement.

They also banned him until that glitch it patched, its not a permaban.

Cobra9511933d ago

Anything a game lets you do is fair. If the devs don't like how their game behaves, they need to change it, not blame the user for what they did.

DuckOnQuack351933d ago

I've quit many games because people were using exploits like crazy and it ended up ruining the game economy and game play because people suck and can't play the game how it's meant to be played. I mean think about it do you think that devs have all the time in the world to check every single little thing to make sure there are no bugs? It's hard and plus most devs have so much pressure from publishers. I think a ban will make it so more people won't do it.

Razuel1933d ago

Not even that, just take the ammo. If the devs cannot support their game then that is on them not the players looking for !@#$ to do. This sounds alot like division 1 baloney.

rainslacker1932d ago

Personally, if a glitch exists, and people use it, then that's on the devs, not the player. Fix the glitch, and call it a day. Reset people's ammo if you need to, or some other relevant action, but don't ban them because you didn't do proper QA, or fix something quick enough. That's just punishing the customer.

It's the nature of online games, especially big ones, that when you have lots of people playing, they're going to find ways to exploit those things. But it's just wrong to ban people because of it.

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Baza1933d ago

So what, Bethesda should fix their crappy broken game

2pacalypsenow1933d ago

Yeah go luck with that.

That's like robbing a bank and saying, well maybe if they fixed their security, I wouldn't have robbed them.

rainslacker1932d ago

Skyrim is still a glitch fest after a decade and multiple re-releases, not sure if Bethesda even understands what optimization of fixing is.

yellowgerbil1933d ago

"Go anywhere, do anything" another Todd Howard lie

NSANiTY1933d ago

What I'm wondering is if he did actually use an exploit. Doesn't appear that they did. The letter seems to say that they think he did, but Only because of the amount of items he aquired in 30 days. But the article says that the reason they got that much ammo in 30 days is because he traded over 100,000 ammo with a secondary account.

The person being banned never said they exploited the game, just that they played so many hours they aquired piles of ammo. Might be Bethesda in the wrong here.

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froy4021933d ago

The ban was a blessing on his soul.

INMATEofARKHAM1933d ago (Edited 1933d ago )

While I agree with the thought, it was honestly my first, this guy obviously found fun in the game and he shouldn't have lost his account if everything was on the up and up. That said he exploited a glitch so he's at their mercy.

notachance1933d ago

it's an act of mercy on bethesda's side

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As Fallout76 Crosses 20Million Gamers Amid Success of TVSeries, Todd Howard Talks Franchise’s Future

“Fallout 76″ has found a whole new world of players thanks to the popularity of Amazon’s “Fallout” TV series. The Bethesda Game Studios title, which first launched in October 2018, crossed 20 million downloads and plays as of Wednesday.

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Obscure_Observer4d ago

Impressive!

Hopefully Fallout 5 will be among next gen Xbox´s launching games.

-Foxtrot3d ago

Yeah will be great. Can’t wait for it on the PS6.

Notellin3d ago

What's the point of mentioning the platform you plan to play on? Tribalism.

Zeref3d ago

Can't wait to not have to pay 70 dollars for it lol

ocelot073d ago

Will probably be decent on the HP Omen Xbox but not so sure about the Dell Alienware Xbox though. But I have high hopes for the Asus ROG Ally Xbox Edition running this game at a stable 60.

thesoftware7303d ago

Fox,
I'm sure MS can't wait either; all that money they will make.

Everyone wins.
Play it on Xbox, play it on PS, play it on your cell phone, play it on PC, shit, maybe even on Nintendo.
ALL=$$$$ for Microsoft corp, literally all these companies care about.

-Foxtrot3d ago

@Notellin

You new here?

It's Obscure_Observer...and I like to wind him up by saying what he would say to others

I'm not even that bothered, I just find it fun.

Huey_My_D_Long3d ago

@notellin
Now you're getting it ;)

purple1013d ago

Can’t wait to play this, on my Samsung tv Xbox app,

MrNinosan3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

@thesoftware730
I'm sure Sony can't wait to be part in 30% of Microsofts profit, without spending $7,5 billion + development cost.

All free money for Sony 👍

Crows902d ago

@zeref

You think it's a positive but it's funny how much of a negative it actually is...lol

shinoff21831d 16h ago

Zeref. You silly fools still don't see the fire your adding to by not purchasing games. Keep on adding fuel to the Xbox fire. Alot of us would prefer ownership over rental

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just_looken3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Though it would be nice i think tod with his team should stay away from it let someone else take the helm like fallout new vegas.

I also hope after all these success they do not make fallout 76 number 2 sense 76 is the most profitable game they made in the series thanks to monthly subs. Then you got the billion + they made on elder scrolls online.

First thing first is the new elder scrolls title they been working on and we got more updates for starfield to come out but one has recently added a new feature called interactive maps you can see icons along with paths now true next gen.....

So yeah with starfield being there "years" of dev time biggest budget/team size do you trust them with the next fallout title?

MrDead3d ago

The next fallout will be on all systems as Xbox is their smallest market. You don't restrict your flagship games to one of the worlds smallest and shrinking platform.
Bethesda still needs PC and PS as we've learnt from recent layoffs thanks to Microsoft's greed in trying to ban multiplatform publisher's from their biggest console platform.

Obscure_Observer3d ago

Whatever happened to your claims that MS should be boycotted and ultimately destroyed due its greed and monopolistic goals?

You said that the only reason MS released Starfield on PC is because its a new IP, otherwise it would an Xbox exclusive game, as MS ultimate goal is to remove games from players, right?

Now you come to realize that all of your smearing campaign along with all of your doom and gloom prophecies was for nothing!

You don´t really care about MS being destroyed as long Playstation gets some Xbox games.

The moment you find out that neither TES VI and Fallout 5 will be making it´s way to Playstation anything soon, you will be right back where you were a few months ago, shoehorning how MS must (again) be destroyed. Smh.

"Bethesda still needs PC and PS as we've learnt from recent layoffs thanks to Microsoft's greed in trying to ban multiplatform publisher's from their biggest console platform."

Last time I checked, Tango, which released Hi-Fi Rush on both PC and PS5 got shut down while Bethesda (Starfield) do not.

Yes, MS is greed. Yes they do care about the money above most things like every company does.

But just like Sony, they´ll not put their flagship titles on Playstation while damaging their own consoles in the process. I though both Phil and Sarah were clear about that subject when they confirmed that a next gen Xbox console is in development.

That said, the thing that most people don´t realize with all that port begging nonsense, is that Xbox releasing all of its flagships games on Playstation will do nothing but hurt the Playstation brand in the end.

Let me explain:

First - If all games from Xbox land on Playstation, what real interest Sony will have to continue and invest in innovative and multi hundred million dollar single player games that they´re known for? None! I mean, why would Sony take risks when the competitor is doing it in their place?

In the end, Sony will just rest on their laurels by allowing Playstation to be carried by third party publishers and ultimately, Playstation´s premiere first party games will be no more.

Second - After the recent events, you know now how far Sony is willing to go to get that MAU from Steam gamers, they literally banned Steam gamers from 120 countries and regions for it. In Microsoft´s case, you also know they will demand Playstation players to connect to a MS account to play Xbox games, which favors no other but MS itself, because they´ll be "stealing" gamers from the Playstation´s player base, via the ultimate "Trojan Horse".

As a wise man said: "Be careful what you wish for"

Mr_cheese2d ago

Oh Obscure, the irony in what you're saying is crazy.

anast3d ago

It's a good show. They are really good at live action trailers.

Huey_My_D_Long3d ago

Yall have alot to prove after starfield. Personally I think they will squander the potential for the game, but hey, I look forward to being proven wrong when its released.

RaidenBlack2d ago

Obsidian can still save the reputation with a banger spin off Fallout title whilst Bethesda concentrates finishing TES VI.
Only drawback is Obsidian will have to halt the Outer Worlds 2 development.

shinoff21831d 16h ago

Is that a drawback though. I'd rather see then work on a fallout anyway. The first outer worlds was pretty dull. Atleast that's how I felt.

RaidenBlack2d ago

They wont.
Too many legacy program scripts to transition to UE.

4Sh0w3d ago

Yeah the TV Series was better than I expected.

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Level 1,000 Fallout 76 player advises new and returning players

There are many who want to help out new Vault Dwellers but this level 1,000 player offers the best advice after spending hundreds of hours in the game.

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Shane Kim17d ago

I have an advice. Go outside more.

OtterX17d ago

You wouldn't say that if you lived in a fallout shelter! ;P

Fonsecap17d ago

Save your time and play something else...

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Fallout 76: Skyline Valley Developers Preview

Players looking forward to exploring the new content can now enjoy a preview of what to expect.

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