A player faced a long ban in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011). After over 13 years, his ban has now expired, and he takes a look at his account.
What type of ban is this? The CoD player “LukeManuFC” recently shared in a video that he was banned for 4,999 days in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 several years ago. However, the day has finally come when the ban is over, he reports on TikTok.
Subsequently, he launched the game for the first time again. He is now level 1 and has to start from scratch. Additionally, he noticed while looking at the player search that there are still just over 200 people on the servers.
In another video, he explained how his ban came about.
What’s behind the ban: The player argues in his video that he was banned for what is known as “boosting.” In the gaming community, boosting refers to the artificial and often unauthorized inflation of statistics or ranks – for example, by coordinating with friends in a sparsely populated lobby and alternatingly eliminating each other without real resistance to quickly farm points.
LukeManuFC explains that his account’s progress had been reset several times by the developers, even though he had not cheated at all. He was simply very skilled and one of the 3000 highest-ranked players worldwide.
Due to the mix of high skill and the “right” use of double-XP, he leveled up extremely quickly, achieving Prestige 10 shortly after Christmas. But the community believes his account resets had a specific reason.
What the community says about this: LukeManuFC has many comments from people convinced that the user achieved his high level through a glitch that was very well-known and widespread in the MW3 community. With this glitch, players obtained “infinite” double-XP tokens.
In this glitch, players could buy “Prestige Tokens” for double experience points for two hours in the Prestige Shop of Modern Warfare 3. However, an exploit allowed the system to be tricked. The two hours of double XP were credited to the account, but the token was not deducted. This way, players could cheat themselves into an endless loop of double experience points.
Did you know about the exploit back then or know someone who used it? Tell us about your MW3 experience in the comments!
Today, of course, hardly anyone plays the aging Modern Warfare 3 from 2011. But a few years ago, the acclaimed CoD offshoot experienced a second spring when Twitch streamers briefly revived the shooter with a tournament and made it the largest game in the world on Twitch for a time.
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