Twitch streamer Aydan \u201cshadow-banned\u201d in Warzone Ghost \/ Infinity WardOne of Warzone\u2019s most notable Twitch streamers, Aydan \u2018Aydan\u2019 Conrad, claims he has been shadow-banned in-game, posting a message of bemusement on social media. [jwplayer UpakiURx] As Activision continues to wrangle with the cheating and hacking issues persistent in Warzone, streamers have been having a tricky time playing the game \u2013 as has everyone else. The game\u2019s developers did a ban wave in early February, bragging that 60,000 cheaters had been taken off the servers. However, some of their moderation may be affecting innocent players too. What is a shadow-ban in Warzone? A shadow-ban in Warzone is typically when a player\u2019s account is placed on a kind of \u2018naughty list\u2019 \u2013 where they are removed from the wider pool of players in matchmaking, and placed into matches filled with more cheaters and hackers. A number of YouTubers have reported this happening to them, blaming frequent in-game reports from opposing players as the cause. Another downside is that queue times are incredibly long, as the available matchmaking pool is reduced so much. It\u2019s unclear if this is exactly what has happened to Aydan too, as he\u2019s simply said \u201cI got shadow-banned on Warzone\u2026 wtf?\u201d Other content creators who have had similar problems have been stuck with the shadow-ban for months, and are often forced to start a new account in order to play and create content. Although unconfirmed, it is believed that mass-reporting by players can lead to a shadow-ban, as the game registers your account as potentially being untrustworthy, and a potential cheater. Read More: Warzone devs investigating broken hitmarkers – Aydan will no doubt be in contact with the developer\u2019s support team to get the issue resolved as quickly as possible. We\u2019ve seen other big names in Warzone quit the game entirely over the hacking issues, namely Vikkstar, and compounding these issues with shadow-bans could be another big mess. We\u2019ll keep you updated on the status of Aydan\u2019s shadow-ban situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer Aydan \u201cshadow-banned\u201d in Warzone Ghost \/ Infinity WardOne of Warzone\u2019s most notable Twitch streamers, Aydan \u2018Aydan\u2019 Conrad, claims he has been shadow-banned in-game, posting a message of bemusement on social media. [jwplayer UpakiURx] As Activision continues to wrangle with the cheating and hacking issues persistent in Warzone, streamers have been having a tricky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}