They can add all the cute little buffs and ability perks they want, the game is pointless to play so long as they allow XIM.
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I think XIM is somehow used in crossplay, or maybe a different type of cheats.
I’m a PC player, and from time to time I get a game with a console player who has aim-assist that is borderline aimlock.
A console player who barely misses any shot on Ashe and Cassidy in a PC lobby.
After I report them I get a “thank you for reporting” message from Blizzard
The game is overrun by cheaters on PC even more than on console. Regardless, as you can see, they do not ban cheaters.
Otherwise, the game would not be suffering from the massive cheating problem we are experiencing right now.
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They don’t allow xim. It’s reportable and bannable now, but that doesn’t mean people won’t still do it until they get caught.
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Blizzard doesn’t enforce cheaters. The amount of bots and third party enhancements infesting this game is staggering.
Xim gets a bad wrap though. It’s the console bogeyman. Xim has a 0.5 input delay. It’s not the advantage y’all make seem.
Btw Marvel shutdown Xim on console from day 1. Aaron Keller is a hack
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That’s why all the ximmers are in top 500 with the game sense of a dead fish, right?
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They could block XIM just like Rivals did, Blizzard has all the money in the world.
They just don’t want to lose any more players so they let it slide.
I reinstalled after not playing for a year and in my very first game got immediately stomped on by a blatant cheater. Subsequently uninstalled.
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Rivals hasn’t blocked it. They also just issue bans when it’s detected. Rivals does seem to be good about banning people quickly, but there are definitely still people using it. I saw a reddit thread where ximmers were discussing which settings to change in Rivals to make it harder to detect.
And there are very few ximmers in reality in OW. It’s a tiny drop in the bucket as far as player count. Blizz is absolutely not trying to retain those few people to keep their player count up.
I think you’re underestimating how many cheaters there likely are in the game.
Beyond XIM there are probably a dozen other ways players can manipulate and cheat.
In a game that is constantly losing players why would Blizz purposefully ban all those accounts? They wouldn’t. They just let their player-base suffer, which is seemingly what they always do.
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They don’t allow Xims so you’re good to play OW2. 
They don’t allow? That means nothing. Game is infested with cheaters they only get blocked after dozens of reports.
If they truly didn’t ALLOW they would implement anti cheat.
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On console? Show us your replay codes that made you come to this conclusion, please.
Ximming, aimbotting, and any kind of cheating is unstoppable in this game because it is f2p.
Bans do nothing except liberate the player to cheat even more because they simply create a new account and now have nothing more to lose.
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I wouldn’t know who is in the top 500. Again, blizzard doesn’t care. They should. Nearly 75% of their player base is on console. They don’t though and they won’t either. They are pc elitists
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The irony of all this is how account bans only work on longtime, invested, single-account players. If my 8 years of stuff is erased, there’s no way I’m going to make a new account and start over.
The cheater has no problem doing this as most of them are using fresh new accounts anyway. And if they aren’t, once their main account is banned, they then open that new account and continue.
Every match is just so painful. It’s always a contest of whether the new account on a team is a cheater, GM smurf or new player. Multiple gamer friends have moved on to Rivals because of this.
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They always make it so obvious to that they’re Ximming on console like spinning in spawn, shaking their crosshairs when they know they’re going to get POTG…
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This is the root of it. The game is free to play (free to cheat)
Even still, I know blizzard could implement more strenuous anti cheat and report/block for cheaters… but they don’t.
They just want more players, cheaters and non cheaters alike. Gotta boost that bottom line.
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Are you going to post the codes?
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How is that a sign of Xim? In fact, it’s an indication of the opposite. If you have a controller analogue input you can spin indefinitely whereas if it was a mouse you’d have to lift and place back down to continue.
Yeah, they don’t allow XIM.
It’s just XIM users found a way around the detection system day one, and no one uses the report system because they’re all XIM users themselves at the higher levels.
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