Overwatch was issuing hardware bans really early on to hackers what exactly happened and why are you literally able to buy another account infinitely if banning someone is supposed to mean anything
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You kind of answered your own question. BUY INFINITELY. That’s some juice for them right there.
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They only hardware banned the worst offenders.
wrong, they dont hardware ban EVER anymore.
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I’m not saying they’re still banning, I only know about old bans. Nothing in my statement was incorrect. Past tense.
Though I’m sure some people still need hardware bans…
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then why would you respond to a threat that asks “what happened to hardware bans” by telling me that they did it before, obviously I knew that lol.
Why isn’t relevant. I’m simply giving words. Some knowledge, some not. I don’t know you, so it shouldn’t offend for a stranger to mention some information.
I have to assume many people just don’t need to be hardware banned overall. They most likely banned the innovators and the personal hack creators most, and likely the worst trolls or those kinds of people.
However, it seems when they won a series of lawsuits, causing the shutdown of hack creation companies, the hardware bans stopped. After that I haven’t heard of any.
Hardware bans were likely reserved not only for the worst offenders, but likely those causing others to offend as well. The influencers of some sort.
WHY is to spread knowledge. I’m not ill intended anywhere I talk.
Maybe, because it’s not that hard bypass hardware bans anymore. Virtualization tech can bypass that easily. Also could generate wrongful bans, because people can actually “clone” certain pc info or generate randomized info and in the end affect a innocent person that don’t have the game and in the future couldn’t play.
Oo I didn’t think about that. Virtualization is a sincere possibility. Virtualbox is very easy to use. Can probably feed it incorrect mac information and even more information based on whatever you feel like as well, because you’re basically the man in the middle at that point.
It’s probably script-kiddie capable too.
Come to think of it, I could probably set it up ubuntu in a few minutes to feed the incorrect macs to a virtualboxed windows.
Oh, yeah you can just set it in the virtualbox program. Yeah that’s idiotproof.
I withdraw my earlier statement.
Hardware bans are basically useless for anyone who has Google and intent.
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Yep, also other stuff even more “reliable” like Unraid, that makes you virtualize your entire PC in many stations as you want. I used in the past to host some game nights in my house. That was fun
The gpu virtualization and cpu virtualization got really good results.
To be fair, anything can be done if you have the intent and know the way to find info about it. That can be done to do a good thing or a bad thing.
Easy answer, hardware bans don’t work.
They ban you network card MAC and you just buy a USB one for 20 bucks and keep playing.
Plus there is the edge case of what happens when they hardware ban player A he sells his gaming rig to player B who excitedly buys OW and can’t play as the computer is hardware banned meanwhile Player A buys a new one and happily plays again.
Should Player B be punished just for buying a used computer ?
IP bans are even worse as IPs for 98% of people on the internet are not static but dynamic.
Not to mention people that plays on shared network system like campuses and stuffs.
You IP ban that place and you basically nuked the entire campus from ever playing the game because some dumbass decided to cheat and got caught.
And don’t forget about today’s sponsor: ExpressVPN
Ah god damn it
You could build a new system from scratch.
You can probably avoid hw banns by knowing enough about it.
Heck china wish sends you a gt500 and your pc thinks its a legit 2080ti…
Even Nvidia is sure, you are running a 2080ti…
only solution i can think of is to make it illegal and have serious punishment but i don’t see that happening because how would they?
Well, they have many ways. Sure those ways can be bypassed, but less often (for people who want like up 5 accounts). Just in each account have more personal data like (individual register or some sort of unique ID in their country), plus Cellphone number confirmation on register. People will use their parents ID but with each account with a unique cellphone number could reduce a lot of new accounts.
Would penalize a lot people who have multiple accounts for other purposes, like parents who want play with their children, but also would reduce a lot new banned players to actually create new accounts. But could generate a bit of bad “image” because will ask a lot of personal stuff, being too restritive and impacting parents.
Hardware bans don’t work. There was someone in Korea that proved you could just spend 10mins reinstalling Windows and be back up and working.
Also there are ways to spoof a lot of your hardware using programs.
A virtual machine also gets around them.
Also hardware bans can ban people that aren’t cheating such as those in a family that share a computer.
Any cheater using hacks severe enough to warrant a ban won’t care. If they made the cheats themselves they will know how to use a vm or make the ban redundant and if they are buying good cheats then they can probably afford a new rig.
Seriously some cheats cost upwards of $500 a month (and those are just from what I’ve seen)