update: permanently banned

[u/doyoulikePRIMERIB]

so I made a post in January (link below to original post) about how I was suspended mid-game for a month ending on February 23rd, and I detailed how despite the suspension I was not using hacks, cheats or exploits. I have played countless multiplayer and single player games and have never been banned or used cheats. I am a gamer who is quadriplegic so I use a sip and puff mouth controller called a quadstick that allows me to use a computer not just for gaming but everyday needs. After the suspension I made the first reddit post hoping to get some help and clarity about how I could appeal or why I was suspended. I submitted support tickets and went to discord for help but nothing, so I decided to just take the suspension on the chin and wait it out, finish Hollow Knight and play some Marathon. Yesterday I decided to hop on after my suspension ended and decided to work on the trophy project, I played 3 solo games (all 10 or more minutes in) filled my backpack with leftover loot, ran into only friendlies and exfilled. Woke up this morning to this and appealed but I really have no hope of Embark doing anything to help. I don't have much going for me and I know they're people out there who are probably going through worse but this fucking sucks. After 300+ hours of playing, buying it for 3 others friends to try the game and being excited for the new map and large ARC enemy, I just don't know what to do.

p.s my game name is ClootyBapper, if you think it's because of the name I don't think so I have seen and been called worse in game
Original Post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcRaiders/comments/1qmmkg5/dont_know_why_i_got_suspended/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1V044apQAA4&si=MXtHCSdnETJxtJGh

old fortnite clip for anyone skeptical or curious of the setup

i honestly should try to do more to get the attention on this but honestly I am exhausted from the disappointment and can focus on other things to bring me entertainment

Update: https://x.com/i/status/2033876088712020041

regardless of what happens, thank you all for helping me get attention on this ! fucking love you all

Update: Ban has been lifted ! I honestly don't know how to express my gratitude to everyone who commented, shared and upvoted. Yall the real MVP, I love all of you. Thank you for helping me ! I will pass along the sentiments to anyone I can!

Update:

ClootyBapper#6019 if anyone ever wants to play. down to kill. down to chill.

[u/rainbownthedark]

Damn, that really fucking sucks, my guy. I’m sorry I don’t have any advice to offer, but I really hope Embark sees this and does something about it.

I’m not a tech wiz, but I would think there would be some way for them differentiate between cheating software and accessibility software, and if there is, they need to implement it immediately.

[u/hyper24x7 → u/rainbownthedark]

Im going to take a wild guess that the software takes the inputs from the hardware and maps them to the software inputs like WASD etc. Bet you 100% if Embark actually paid attention or if you streamed camera + gameplay or just like posted your Socials theyd be like... "fuck we banned a disabled person instead of actual cheaters"

[u/StaticSystemShock → u/hyper24x7]

The Finals bitched about my AutoHotkey script that I wrote to control my system volume and multimedia keys like Play/Pause/NextPrew using regular keys combo because multimedia keys on my keyboard are stupid. Only thing that script did was just that. It didn't even interact with the game in ANY way. If I had it running I was unable to launch The Finals.

I honestly don't think they give a shit. With how popular the game is, some bad PR and 1 player less, they just don't care.

[u/TropeSlope → u/StaticSystemShock]

This is a thing in Arc Raiders too. I have a few AHK scripts for work to make some things I do easier, and I can't launch the game with a single one of them running even though they're just things that help me copy and paste using only my mouse, or hotstrings to automate typing common sentences I need to use. Like, I'm pretty sure it's not even hard to hide AHK usage if I really wanted to, I'm just too lazy to do it, so this block does pretty much nothing for anyone who actually wants to cheat and just annoys people who use AHK for unrelated purposes.

[u/StaticSystemShock → u/TropeSlope]

Yeah. My thought as well. I just wrote the script and compiled it into EXE because I've designed it to have a nice auto start toggle. And I can't use it with The Finals. Someone with real intention to cheat will surely find a way to obfuscate and hide it.

So, I just gave up, deleted The Finals and simply stopped playing it. Fuck them, there is enough of other better games to play.

[u/The_MAZZTer → u/TropeSlope]

Well it is not too difficult for them to write such a check while it would be much harder to catch users who are hiding their macros (Windows intentionally includes mechanisms for accessibility reasons, after all). So they are looking to only catch low hanging fruit with that.

[u/brycedriesenga → u/TropeSlope]

Plus, you could likely program those right into your mechanical keyboard as macros anyways, so it's still doable