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Cheating Players To Be Perma-Banned On First Offense
Shelassa
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Cheating Players To Be Perma-Banned On First Offense
Blizzard is making no bones about its stance against the cheaters in Overwatch. According to a new post on Battle.net forums, any players found using hacks, bots or third-party software will be permanently banned on their first offense, no warnings given.
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or for rage reporting really good players because they must be cheating to be that good to placate a bruised ego?
Anything. Everybody always says how harsh they will be agaisnt cheaters, but thats just PR talk.
And rage reporting I actually dont think will be that big of an issuse in Overwatch. With this many autoaiming and instakilling abilities, anyone can kill anyone. Its an easy to learn, easy to master kind of game.
That being said, there's always the possibility that some players who come across as "too good" will be banned. I was banned from a couple of Modern Warfare servers back in the day due to the fact that I was easily doubling the amount of kills of the next highest player, so they banned me under the suspicion.
I could easily see groups of people reporting the same player and then poof, there goes his account when he's just really good. Although, I would hope and pray that they will go on more than the word of some disgruntled players.
I can only assume this means bots or hacks software such as aimbots, or such scripts that automate gameplay, however (DEFINE UNFAIR ADVANTAGE?)
Is having a Mouse with 5 buttons on it set to switch weapons differently, or preform other actions illegal now?
Is having Oculus Rift, or other VR applications in this game illegal? They can provide a unfair advantage?
how high did you get in the CB ranked play?
what you or I might think is cheating "aimbots" most times are just really really good players. Most people think that they are "good" when they are in fact mediocre.
hence the ego placating rage reporting. . .
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If players do not agree within 30 days un-opened software or not it can be returned for a (FULL REFUND)
Same thing with Xbox and Playstation, it should say that players are not allowed to (Jail Break) or (Modify) the consoles on the box itself but it doesn't and people do it then lose online access its pretty stupid because the person owns the hardware and people who do this without knowledge of such should be entitled to a refund... (This is why I hate sony as a company) and I see (Daybreak Games as a failure) for complaining over PS3 mods.
But cheaters deserve to be banned I really don't care if you want to hack, then I don't care but keep it on your private servers in your own game, or perhaps like GTA 5 have a cheater pool where everyone is free to cheat and hack its stupid to disrupt players who want to enjoy the game.
Your projecting is off the charts, but Im not gonna make a fool out of you, because deep down Im a nice person.
K.
you get banned, you screw up your whole blizz account. and for most players, that includes quite some games and money.
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Still I think this should be the policy for all online games. Better to err on the side of fair play, but be prepared to reverse bans if people are found innocent.
"I'll believe it when I see it. "
Pretty sure Blizzard has the best history of zero-tolerance towards cheaters in MMOs at least.
Anyway, my point is, its really really easy to score kills in Overwatch and I havent seen anyone raging or accusing people of cheating in the game at all. Again, there so many ways to instakill someone that I guess people are kinda used to it and whether the person was cheating or not might not even make any difference.
Im of course all for cheaters getting banned. I would actually go even further and not only ban them from the game, but also "mark" their battle.net account for other people to see he is hacker.
False flags probably will happen, but anything can be sorted out if both sides are willing.
I have never understood the mentality of people who want to cheat in this way . They are robbing themselves of the fun and challenge of playing a game as well as spoiling the game for others .
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's becoming an industry / platform (PC) problem... so more companies need to follow threw with actions like this or its just going to keep getting worst as more and more keep and/or feel like they need to buy into these hacks to enjoy FPS gameplay on PC.
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Is that a humble brag? Are you going to be so good you will get banned?
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