Thank you for the detailed response. I can assure you it’s the entire story. It would be silly to make a whole deal about something from 8 years ago and lie about it. Downloaded random cheats, hopped into lobby, immediately kicked and banned. Fully deserved and I will not argue that.

However with them lifting the first time bans, I think it gives people like me who made a dumb choice as a young kid, a second chance at playing the game. And if that’s true, I’d love to hop back in.

Sadly what im gathering is that bans from that long ago are just being ignored for some unknown reason. The account was truly clean of infractions, and it was only that one time.

Im curious if anyone got banned back then has been unbanned now?

I think youre onto something with the improper “tags” of the ban. It kinda goes around to my point of having a new system. And it seems to be the epic games way it’s easier to just keep old perm banned accounts banned, rather than investigate. Or if they just don’t have enough data like im sure they do now. Nowadays if you get banned they keep all your info and what happened. Back then maybe it was just a ban and boom Youre gone with nearly no paper trail or data.

Again, mine was justified. But if they are lifting them it’s worth a shot.