I am sure all of us have been hit with a temporary ban in an online game at some point. No, not for being unpleasant in chat, behave yourself. Maybe you rage-quit the match and couldn't requeue for an hour, or you got so mad you started throwing. Or, as was the case with this Call of Duty player back in the day, you cheated.
In fairness to TikTok user LukeManuFC, it sounded like a frustrating situation. Back in the glory days of the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, he claims he was a high-ranking player who kept getting his score reset over suspicions of cheating. He denies this - until he did boost himself to get back to his previous record. That resulted in a ban... of 4,999 days.
I am sure that most people in that scenario either managed to appeal the ban or forget about it forever. It does feel like a roundabout way of saying that you're never playing it again, after all. But LukeManuFC was not deterred. After recently trying out his old copy of Modern Warfare 3 and realising that the ban was now only 164 days away from ending,...
