It doesn’t take any brain gymnastics to figure out how this all went down, either. In a post to the r/Activision subreddit, which has since been deleted, the player shared that they’d been banned from Modern Warfare 2 on October 28. They appealed their ban, and it was denied. Most people would perhaps leave it there and accept fate, getting thrills from playing on a friend’s console and so forth in the meantime, but this Redditor — u/PlumContent — had another idea. Instead, the Call of Duty fan made a new Activision account with a new email, repurchased the game on Steam, and tried once more to play the game. Alas, the player was banned again on October 29. As a result, he took steps that no player ever should, and decided to go to Activision’s Texas office on October 31. “I was met by a security guard in the parking lot at Activision who told me that I would not be able to speak with anybody,” u/PlumContent shared. “After asking the guard politely to go into the office and explain the situation to an employee, the guard agreed to go speak with a worker. The guard came back to me in the parking lot and told me the employee had said that they are short-staffed, and it will take a few weeks for the wrongful bans to be resolved.” The user then shared their frustrations with having spent so much money on a game they cannot play, to which the security guard apparently told them to not get mad about a video game. While I can understand this person’s frustrations, and wrongful bans have been a persistent issue with Modern Warfare 2 so far, I think most of us can agree that turning up to the offices of the developer is not a heroic way of resolving an issue. In fact, it comes across as rather threatening, and doesn’t help anyone involved. Either way, u/PlumContent is going to have to unfortunately wait. It sucks, a lot, but if this is real, it does mean that Activision is actively looking into fixing these bans. That’s some good news, at least.
