How do they apply bans?

I don’t know what they do. However I know what I’d do, and maybe it’s the same, here are some ideas.

If a user has dynamic IP and you ban an IP from connecting with the game’s network, he’ll be able to connect after he’s given a different IP, or by using any proxy. So IP is a way, but probably not the solution.

You can also ban the account directly (but the solution would be to make another account), basically not allowing the account to login (and you can’t login from any location, no matter your IP).

Given that you have downloaded the game, maybe the ban can be written in some way in your computer. A dll, maybe, that gets executed with the game and tells it for example ‘what day is it? Check online; if it’s not December 2nd then don’t allow me to enter the game’.

Or (and this would be the definitive way I guess) if you really want to prevent the person from playing and multiaccounting, read the MAC address and ‘ban it’, along with the username.

I hope it’s what you were asking, and I also hope someone else can give us specific data, this is an interesting thing.

Well yea u listed some ideas that I never thought of,but can ban someone lets through an sql db and insert that user in a table named “banned users” or something even tho this is mostly used in websites right?
Thanks in advance ;D
( i wonder if there a site to read about account. Unbanning or ban bypass)

Well, if what you want is to ‘unban’, you can work against the ideas I had, just to try.
Normally if they know the user has valuable things in their account, they apply username ban. While I don’t know how it is done, probably yes there is some kind of database in their servers.

Maybe you can reverse-engineer the game’s software.

Or maybe you can open another account, and try to get it banned, while logging everything with WireShark. Then analyse the log, and try to find which request was made when you were banned, maybe you can even perform SQLi in their server. ;) (If it’s a vulnerable database)

If you want to make another account and you can’t, then maybe they used some of the things I came up with, so try against them, for example:
Use a proxy (bridge connections, for example).
Change your MAC address.
Uninstall the game completely, including the reg entries that were modified/added (if any).

Again, I’m no expert in this. No idea… xD

THANKS a lot,your ideas inspired me
I want a payback cuz the ban was meaningless
Im going to try all these thanks again,
I think i should close the thread :D

XD Don’t do anything bad, and if the ban wasn’t fair just tell them.
Be good! ;)

Mailed them twice but they never responded
XD

Always clear the logs!!!

Game file logs? :)

Mmmno, their servers' logs if you get into them. XD

Ow hahaha nice idea xD
But “if”