So when blizzard announced that xims would get banned I was kinda excited about playing. But now I am becoming a complete conspiracy nut about about it not actually happening.
If I have reported someone because of toxic chat, I’ll get the notification later saying action was taken. When the updates came out I noticed plenty more smurfs and xim accounts. It felt like they weren’t getting banned so I started only reporting xim accounts for hacking nothing else. I have not once received the follow up message to say action was taken since doing that. And then to test it, I reported someone I thought would get banned (because they were next level toxic) and straight away got the notification.
It feels like, you don’t get the message or, they don’t take action since I’ll see the same xim accounts several times.
I’ve read that steamers and top players have been banned but that’s it. So are they just banning what they see publicly?
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They are reportable but get banned in waves, not fast enough especially when those pieces of trash create alternative account just to cheat again
This is why it isn’t working. Don’t choose a category under cheating, leave the three options blank and just submit.
Ximming is all I report. I report ximmers this way every few days, and every week I’ll get a thank you for reporting. I feel a 30% hit rate is good.
Have you considered that you may be incorrectly identifying the use of unauthorised peripherals, therefore the reports aren’t working?
I have successfully reported those that use unauthorised peripherals so it definitely does work. Another less likely reason is that you are incorrectly selecting “hacking” as the report justification rather than just “cheating” and leave it like that with the “hacking” and “boosting/deranking” unchecked. I doubt that would make too much difference though, especially if you include a word or two in the text field.
It would be good if Blizzard added a “unauthorised peripheral” option for clarity.
I do not report just for XIM, but I ran into a Cronus Zen user today for sure this time. And apparently you cannot report that to PlayStation?
It’s kind of wild. I guess nobody cares about cheaters at all.
The problem is that they’re very hard to detect at system level due to them piggybacking off of official/authorised devices. It’s why things like the innocent Brooks converters getting the harshest treatment because they were unauthorised and had a similar (from a technical standpoint) spoofing function yet had legitimate uses (even being tournament legal) but didn’t piggyback off authorised devices.
This basically ended up with Brooks devices being disabled on systems pretty easily and the cheating devices continue after some firmware changes.
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socal studio dev blogs they go radio silent on XIM,
then take a stand against XIM,
but somehow don’t let PCMR opt-out of reverse-XIM.
they show up in the OW UI just fine.
Offer a “best-effort” opt-out if it’s sooooo hard to detect.