This maybe a bit offtopic but because it applies to acti/blizz owned games I thought I’d post it anyway.
Reddit is on fire, again, seems acti/blizz just ban hammered 6,000 cheaters in the CoD franchise using data from their RICOCHET anti-cheat.
I first saw this last night.
It gave me a warm fuzzy feeling all over when I read that the anti-cheat dev team went out of their way to troll the cheaters with shadow bans. Meaning the cheater couldn’t do any damage to other players.
As soon as I read that I came here to the shop and pre-purchased TWW, something I repeatedly said I’d not do, as a small reward from 1 single player that truly appreciates the efforts made to derail cheaters.
The “I got banned for nothing” posts on reddit are comedy gold. The legit players aren’t showing them any sympathy or mercy.
yea, I know it isn’t WoW, but it can and does happen here.
" Update: In a blog post posted today, Activision confirmed that it banned over 60,000 accounts for cheating in a single wave. The post also mentions that, to date, over 300,000 cheaters have been banned since Warzone’s launch."
never have understood the cheating mentality. its degenerate.
Cheaters dont win. They cant win by definition, so whats the point? An Ego boost? How? They didnt actually win anything. They literally just wasted their time and everyone they were involved with in the cheat.
Those accounts have already been remade and are already in Warzone I bet. F2P games are a haven of cheaters because you can just create a new account. Destiny 2 actually has tried to battle it by forcing End game PvP, Trials of Osiris, to only be available to current expansion owners, but cheating is STILL a massive problem.
Someone willing to shell out hundreds for an aimbot will also be willing to buy whatever they need to regain access to the game.
No, that does not happen in Blizzard games. If you have an account penalty you know it and get an email about it. A Silence (no social game functions), Suspension, or Ban are very clearly communicated.
Blizzard does not shadow ban people.
In the past year or two Blizzard/Activision has moved to putting a phone number on the account, esp free to play games. That phone number needs to match your country of residence and it can’t be VOIP or something. Most burner phones won’t work either. That slows down the remaking of accounts. It does not stop it, but it has an impact of making it harder to keep creating free accounts each time they get banned. They run out of phone numbers/phones they have access to.
Yah, if they are willing to get a new phone/phone number they can do it but it does have an impact on some of the cheaters.
Ah, ok. Yeah I thought you meant they did shadow bans here which they def don’t do. They do publish a count of bans each month over in the Classic forums though.
This was the December totals for example.
Total Exploitative WoW Account Actions in December 2023: 270970
It does not include chat/advertising/naming account actions.
That action here for rotation bots that was on reddit had cheaters crying on each other shoulder about how they “losing” parses. They was posting screenshots like they did something to be proud of.
And I’ve seen it happen. It happened to my husband. He absolutely did not do the thing he was accused of. I know this because I know what was on his computer.
Ehm… I won’t comment on whatever happened to your husband because I believe something did happen but … A shadow ban is to limit someone to the extent of banning someone without letting them know it.
The fact that they were accused of something is a pretty strong indication that there was no shadow banning taking place. And it is relatively easy to figure out whether someone has been shadow banned or not actually.
Since the point of it is to make it appear like someone’s still able to engage normally but in reality has been, effectively, throttled. Which is something one can always test to see whether there is something implying that the “normal” gameplay is anything but normal in reality.
I have never encountered anyone who could back up that they had been limited or otherwise throttled like that in WoW. And to know that oneself or others have been, one kinda need evidence for it. What you are saying is, at most, that your husband received a false-positive to … something.