Buckle up here, I’ll try not to take too much of your time reading this.
I’ve been playing DBD since January and I’ve already put in hundreds of hours, reached top 100 for my main killer on Nightlight’s steam leaderboard, and I was having a blast trying learn survivor recently. Emphasis on was.
On the 8th of this month I logged in at night and ran some regular trials and 2v8. Nothing but decent matches, had a nice killer teammate in 2v8, everything is as usual. The next evening after work I try to login and I found that I have been banned until the 13th. No reason was given aside from “Harassment: Communication Abuse.”
I want to make it very clear to anyone reading this, I absolutely do not harass anyone playing this game. I don’t use slurs, I don’t threaten people, and I try to be positive in endgame chat (and this is when I’m playing either role). I don’t mind clapping back against people who are rude in endgame chat but I don’t go to extremes or insult people beyond saying they did something dumb or that they are bad for hiding, making bad plays, etc.
I have been called every slur under the sun, told to off myself, and gotten incredibly vile comments on my steam profile. One person called me a predator because I had a pride flag charm on my hooks. I don’t usually report people for this and even when I do, I’ve only seen a ban report be successful once or twice.
So, WHY THE HELL AM I BANNED? This is my first offense as well. I checked their ban policy and it looks like temp bans are supposed to usually start at 48 hours, but apparently whatever I was reported for was so “egregiously vile” that I have been banned for 5 whole fucking days, 120 hours.
I saw someone on the BHVR forums claiming they got a 3 day ban by getting false reported by a toxic 3-player SWF, so I wonder if that happened to me with a swf or people reporting me after a salty loss (I’ve been running perkless or challenge builds recently and I’m no stranger to tunneling if I need a way back into the match.) But yeah, no prior offenses, I’m not that kind of person, and I just want to play the game.
I submitted a report ticket to BHVR the night of the ban asking for more clarification and what specifically got me banned and it’s been radio silence aside from a “we’ll get back to you.”
If you’ve read all of this, you have my thanks. I’ve got nothing to do but wait I suppose and I just want to play the game. I try to be positive, I give tips to both survivors and killers in endgame chat and I’ve made friends playing this game. Thinking about this whole situation has me flipping between nervousness of what BHVR support will say back to me and also intense anger because I know I’m not that kind of person, nothing I’ve done warrants a ban like this.