Repeat offenders that get banned question

Continuing the discussion from [Player Behavior in Overwatch] https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/player-behavior-in-overwatch/87222:

So if someone gets permanently banned from playing Overwatch, whats to stop them from buying a new account and continuing on with their toxic behavior? Will Blizzard also ban their new accounts? I know they are able to do it as they have with people in the past when the game first came out.

Blizzard has been known to take drastic steps to hardware and IP ban serious offenders who violate the Code-of-Conduct in our game.

We have recently taken action against this player due to pervasive griefing across multiple accounts. This player has been permanently banned across all and future accounts from Overwatch.

The reason we are sharing this information is because after investigating thoroughly due to the reports you all have shared with us on social media, we have discovered that the player is one of the worst offenders we have come across. They have a large number of separate accounts with copious reports each, all of which have been previously suspended for extended periods of time and one of which is permanently banned.

To be clear this player is being banned, not for their hero choice, but rather for systematically ruining Overwatch games for thousands of players.

We think it’s important to note that players like this are EXTREMELY rare in Overwatch and the action we’re taking today will be a positive step forward.

We recognize that not finding this player faster is an unfortunate failure of our ever-developing reporting system and we’ve already taken steps to quickly eliminate outliers like this in the future.

Your reports in-game and on social media continue to help us daily in our quest to eliminate toxicity and griefing in Overwatch. Let’s continue to work together as a community to make Overwatch better.

In the past, back when aimbot cheating was a plague in Overwatch’s early days, players who got hit, found all of their accounts and any attempts to buy a new account get instantly banned from the same IP or hardware ID.

Source: https://np.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/7vkad9/timthetatman_explains_why_he_might_stop_streaming/dtumnhf/

The banhammer swung hard that day lol

That it did.

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