Did an experiment too see which ban is more proactive. I think you can guess which gets a quicker ban.
4 starred bronze border with no previous account of any mutes/bans/suspension
Played 3 ranked matches being toxic towards the enemy in game chat (keep in mind, no toxic behavior towards my fellow teammates). Result= Suspended within an hour.
Gold border account playing 3 competitive matches
2 matches back to with the same blatant aimbot player (Mass reported by both teams with obvious POG replay). Result= exactly a week out, I received a notification of the hacker getting banned.
In other words Blizzard believes toxic chat is worse than aim hacks in their game… nice =)
Toxicity is far easier to prove
Not to mention cheaters are better to ban in waves than to ban as soon as they’re discovered, it’s also very difficult to determine if a teammate is cheating, but can be very easy to determine is an enemy is being toxic to their team
Agreeable but really 1 week, even with the most blatant hacks like come on blizzard. There are so many ways they can reduce the amount of hackers, they just dont have any anti-cheat system.
To have it viable it would have been YOU who tested first if either toxicity or cheating gets you banned.
How do you know another player had an aimbot? You don’t.
So this “experiment” is already useless beyond measure.
No you absolute baboon, it means that toxic chat is easier to prove due to a list you can create in the game where it has certain keywords and if they get reported, players get punished. You can’t have a system like this for cheating.
I mean yea, you not supposed to be toxic, not that you are not supposed to be toxic to teammates only.
Or when system dont catch to them hacking they need someone who know how to recognise hacker first, when for text chat anyone can see easly your actions. You can say even intern or someone who dont know anything about games can work there, and if they ban someone for hacking prematurely it might be a problem if it would repeat to offten.
False, but its not great one, it does exist, and can auto ban even for other softwares that are not really cheat as far as i remember.
The problem is that cheat software is made to work around anty cheat one, you dont get a game where no one is able to cheat, and tbh, it will only get worse with some new cheats i saw on yt are being used as of late.
And Blizzard is supposed to have an anti cheat system active. While I’m not sure of the technical side of things on an anti cheat system, I’d like to believe that the system can track some cheats easier than others. So if it’s not some new fangled, hyper expensive, incredibly hard to detect cheat…why did it take so long for the system to detect it if it did at all?
Of course this is assuming that it is just a basic cheat and not an expensive one, people normally use those in Masters/GM rank comp games. This is also assuming that the system detected it versus the person being reported by multiple people. Ban waves, when do they even happen? Is it when there’s a large outcry of cheaters popping up? Is it a scheduled thing?
Of course first of all toxic chat is worse, and second toxic chat easily can get detected automatically, while aimbotting (as long as he does not use a known hack that gets detected by Blizzards anti cheat) will always require human reviews.
As you can imagine that Blizzards gets ton of reports everyday a one week reaction time seems to be perfectly fine.
There is so many wrong things with that “experiment” that I dont even know where to begin.
Like the penalties, punishments, reports and way of reviewing the evidence are totally different.
Also most anti-cheats analyze behaviours, patterns and crosscheck with other reported players and accounts etc … and after being 100% sure its X type of cheat, the wave happens and a lot of people get banned.
If it is a brand new cheat, it can take way longer. It doesnt mean they tolerate toxicity less than cheats.
They did in Heroes of The Storm but it’s free to play. Why they refuse to do it here is beyond me. Maybe because they are so strapped for cash that they are counting on players to get permabanned so they buy new accounts? Then again considering Paladins also doesn’t allow chat with the enemy team they have no excuse other than the conspiracy reason I gave. For all the talk they give about stopping toxicity they offer no real solutions to it. All it takes is for them to prevent some of it from happening.
Don’t use chat of any kind except among your group of friends. It is of zero value with random teammates. They won’t listen to you anyways and it just makes you a focus of toxicity because you are actually communicating. I think most randoms have chat open or voice chat on just so they can be toxic if anybody says anything.
