Did I screw up?

[Scorch]

Yesterday I found a secondhand 4090/13900k PC build on facebook marketplace for a very good price and decided to pull the trigger. I was a little hesitant about getting scammed due to the low price and the hardware being sold, but I got it home and everything works as expected. The guy that sold it to me mentioned that he had previously played fortnite and that his account got hacked and banned. According to him he lost a lot of money when he lost the account, so he lost interest in gaming. When I heard him talk about the hacking and account loss it kind of made me feel funny, so I asked if he had ever play warzone and he said it he had a few times but not very much. I asked if his account was ever hacked or banned on COD and he responded "never". I was more concerned about receiving broken hardware at the time, so I kind of let the thoughts of the computer being HWID banned go. I got home and fired it up and reset the windows and installed battlenet/COD. As I was logging in a gut feeling told me to test it with another account, so I used my wife's account (Which she never uses). I played in 2-3 games for a total of 5 minutes running around the map to see what type of FPS I would get on the setup (I was super excited). I woke up this morning and worked on some tuning on the pc and check FPS again and I couldn't get into a game (Ping instantly went to >200). I then checked the Activision website, and it states the account is under review aka (shadowban). My wife hasn't used the account in about 9-10 months(Level 18 in game). Did I buy a HWID banned setup?

Also, I've never used ANY form of cheats and I've never had any type of ban. Now, I'm terrified to log into my own account on the new pc, so I have a really super nice paperweight until I get it figured out. Thoughts?

 

[Vixify]

The setup you bought is probably banned, so to be safe just don't login to your main account. At least thats my gut feeling but you go ahead and do what you want.

 

[Archangel72]

There is not a way to change a component out to wave the ban?

 

[KeyboardDemon]

In an ideal world you would be able to contact Activision and explain the situation and they would examine the evidence and lift the ban. We all know that that's not going to happen, if it did work that way then every gamer with HWID bans would make up some sale of goods note and send it to Activision to lift the bans.

You have a great gaming PC so it still has value on the used market, either break it down and sell it as parts or sell it as a full PC.

If you decide to sell it, advertise it as bought used with originally concealed HWID ID bans on Fortnite and Warzone, as not all gamers play these games.

Alternatively, keep it for playing single player games but if you need another gaming PC for Warzone/COD you might not have funds or space for both.

 

[Gamersmith]

Yesterday I found a secondhand 4090/13900k PC build on facebook marketplace for a very good price and decided to pull the trigger. I was a little hesitant about getting scammed due to the low price and the hardware being sold, but I got it home and everything works as expected. The guy that sold it to me mentioned that he had previously played fortnite and that his account got hacked and banned. According to him he lost a lot of money when he lost the account, so he lost interest in gaming. When I heard him talk about the hacking and account loss it kind of made me feel funny, so I asked if he had ever play warzone and he said it he had a few times but not very much. I asked if his account was ever hacked or banned on COD and he responded "never". I was more concerned about receiving broken hardware at the time, so I kind of let the thoughts of the computer being HWID banned go. I got home and fired it up and reset the windows and installed battlenet/COD. As I was logging in a gut feeling told me to test it with another account, so I used my wife's account (Which she never uses). I played in 2-3 games for a total of 5 minutes running around the map to see what type of FPS I would get on the setup (I was super excited). I woke up this morning and worked on some tuning on the pc and check FPS again and I couldn't get into a game (Ping instantly went to >200). I then checked the Activision website, and it states the account is under review aka (shadowban). My wife hasn't used the account in about 9-10 months(Level 18 in game). Did I buy a HWID banned setup?

Also, I've never used ANY form of cheats and I've never had any type of ban. Now, I'm terrified to log into my own account on the new pc, so I have a really super nice paperweight until I get it figured out. Thoughts?

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