What Does 'Hardware Ban' Mean?

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FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Machine Judgment CultureCLUSTER: Anti-Cheat & Bans

A ban tied to a device's hardware identifiers rather than just an account, preventing a banned player from simply making a new account on the same machine.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"New account didn't even load, hardware ban caught it instantly."

LORE & ORIGIN

Technical anti-cheat vocabulary for a stricter enforcement method, commonly shortened to 'HWID ban' and widely discussed for how much harder it is to circumvent than an account-only ban.

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2016

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CN硬件封禁 →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Español es-ESno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →

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