[quote]So to start, I'm retired, so that's a vague clue to my age. A friend was visiting from Switzerland when covid hit, I'm in the UK, he was put in a hotel for around 15 days under lockdown rules, knew I played destiny a lot (he's not a gamer) so asked for pointers & bought an Xbox, all the dlcs etc, spent a small fortune, played pretty much nonstop for 2 weeks, only pve, just basic patrols, strikes etc no endgame. Messaged the day later, he'd logged in to a ban message, no explanation, just perma banned. He messaged via the appeal thing, no reply. 2 weeks later messaged again, still no reply. Safe to say he was disgusted, & the world lost a gamer, sold the Xbox & never tried again. Guys in his 70s, on console, & wouldn't know how to cheat if his life depended on it.[/quote] If at any time he got matched with a cheater in a strike, campaign mission etc bungie do full team bans, they don't care as they believe anyone at any given time who's matched with a cheater must be intentionally benefiting from it on purpose, so they just do that without investigating

It is kinda wild that you spend so much money, they ban you without a given reason, & dont respond at all. I think he gave the Xbox to a charity shop & has now taken up bowling. It was during the time they did that account recovery's are bannable twab, & we thought maybe it was because he signed in in the UK & then Switzerland a few days later but in a world of vpns it can't be that. Either way he's gone. I barely play anymore these days, & the recent accidental bans, along with those ones a while ago which where also reversed, is just another reason to have zero confidence in bungie. Just remembered wasnt there a thing a few years ago where they had to refund PSN players, I forget the details but there was something wrong with a dlc & plsyers went to Sony because they couldn't contact bumgie, Sony tried to chase it up with bungie & couldn't contact them lol. I think it was in Europe & Sony refunded everyone as it's the law here, you have to be able to contact a retailer to fix any issues.

[quote]It is kinda wild that you spend so much money, they ban you without a given reason, & dont respond at all. I think he gave the Xbox to a charity shop & has now taken up bowling. It was during the time they did that account recovery's are bannable twab, & we thought maybe it was because he signed in in the UK & then Switzerland a few days later but in a world of vpns it can't be that. Either way he's gone. I barely play anymore these days, & the recent accidental bans, along with those ones a while ago which where also reversed, is just another reason to have zero confidence in bungie. Just remembered wasnt there a thing a few years ago where they had to refund PSN players, I forget the details but there was something wrong with a dlc & plsyers went to Sony because they couldn't contact bumgie, Sony tried to chase it up with bungie & couldn't contact them lol. I think it was in Europe & Sony refunded everyone as it's the law here, you have to be able to contact a retailer to fix any issues.[/quote] Well could be that IF he signed in somewhere and then signed in again elsewhere, bungie we're very clear about that change, it was to combat account recov services / boosters etc He shouldn't of done that in such a short time, at the very least he should of signed into his bungie.net account first and changed his country to Switzerland first (iirc it's in settings)

People use Vpns every day, that doesn't make sense.

[quote]People use Vpns every day, that doesn't make sense.[/quote] Don't think vpns are allowed