V Rising

I genuinely loved V Rising. The combat, castle building, progression, PvP — all of it is incredibly well made, and I put hundreds of hours into the game because I truly enjoyed it. Which is exactly why this feels so awful. I was permanently banned from official servers, not for cheating myself, but because another random player I happened to interact with was apparently cheating. Someone I never played with before or after. According to support, simply continuing to play around that situation counted as “benefiting” from cheats. What frustrates me most is that there seems to be no room for context, nuance, or intent. Competitive PvP servers are chaotic. People accuse each other of cheating constantly, joke around in chat constantly, and temporary alliances or interactions happen all the time — especially when entire servers are dominated by massive groups teaming together. I never used ESP or any cheat software. Not once. Yet I ended up permanently banned across all official servers anyway. What hurts is that I actually respected the game and the time I invested into it. I even tried communicating respectfully with support throughout the process because I genuinely wanted to resolve it fairly. I still think V Rising is an amazing game mechanically. But after this experience, I honestly feel discouraged from investing time into official PvP again if association alone can lead to a permanent ban without clear proof of direct cheating. I’m not writing this out of hatred for the game. I’m writing it because I genuinely cared about it, and this whole situation has been incredibly frustrating and disappointing.