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Fascinating. Blizzard appears to be taking a different approach....

Troll Armada·7/7/2016, 3:01:23 AM·6 votes·1,169 views

...to Overwatch.

Banning Cheaters Almost Immediately
Naming and Shaming (a time tested and proven system of community driven behavior modification)
...and three not taking the attitude that there will always be cheaters, so there is no point in trying to eliminate them all. This way, their organization is set up to strive for a goal, even if it is unreachable, rather than just throwing up your hands and just expecting that cheating can never be eliminated.

"Judging by aggrieved posts on the forums of popular hack providers, Overwatch is proving difficult to fool."

http://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-cheaters-are-having-a-hard-time/

http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5edjLC3JGJT5aR8Qb5KFQo-650-80.png

"Bought the game again... didn't hack on it at all, just wanted to enjoy the game a bit. Two days later—banned again.

"Bought the game... again. But before doing that, I deleted Overwatch and launcher completely. Enjoyed it again without cheating only for a day."

On his fourth attempt, he purged his PC, changing hard drive IDs, MAC address, BiosDate and buying a VPN to throw Blizzard's anticheat off. It didn't work.

additionally, peopel banned on the pc version, get banned on their PS4 and/or XboxOne as well.

some day, perhaps in the not too distant future, perhaps Riot will adopt this type of disruptive anti-cheat philosophy. ... who knows. for now, i think it's just too new and unproven so it scares people at Riot who don't like change.

24 Comments

TrulyBland7/7/2016, 3:21:26 AM4 votes

Don't see the difference.

Your first point seems fairly wrong. The way this looks it's a banwave. Just the same way Riot does it. Blizzard just also seems to identify other accounts by the same people and bans those, too. That part, however, depending on how it's done, might really net a lot of false positives. And that isn't even a matter of anti-cheat philosophy. This is an elementary philosophy regarding punishments. A virtually irreversible punishment shouldn't have false positives.

Your second point seems irrelevant, seeing as how people getting banned is probably a bit more of a punishment than getting their account names published. In case you were trying to refer to the rule against naming and shaming on the boards, that's for "normal" people. Riot has done it in the past (see Tyler, for a recent example). There's a difference between somebody official declaring somebody to have broken rules, and just a regular person on the internet.

And your third point... well, let's just say I'd like to see some source for the attitude you attribute to Riot there. They've banned cheaters in the past and they continue to do so. In fact there are still threads from their last ban wave of people complaining about having been banned for cheating.

If you want to compare two companies philosophy, you probably should look at both companies philosophies, instead of just looking at one and implying the other's is not only different, but inferior.

Bettnachleger7/7/2016, 1:19:01 PM2 votes

Blizzard is there for like 25 years ... (I remember playing battle chess all day long myself back in the days) They developed a lot of competitive games, they have experience. Riot Games does not. Give them time, they will catch up ... sometime.

EvilDustMan7/7/2016, 3:09:49 AM1 votes

Rammus

Maximum Morde7/7/2016, 1:23:41 PM1 votes

Much easier for Blizzard because it isn't a free game.

Bloodmorne7/7/2016, 4:35:40 PM1 votes

good company multiple games huge player base= blizzard. Bad marketing, bad system, bad community, bad support team, bad at handling objectives, one game= riot. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Cpt Jack Bird7/7/2016, 1:15:38 PM1 votes

Well, for one, battle.net accounts are linked to a few more things (well, other games as well) than League accounts.

For two, Blizz's anti-cheat actually has a history of being pretty good as software.

They're probably just willing to ban more cross-account based on similar data. Riot doesn't care if you hack and then have another account on the same email, and blizzard's policy seems to go right into any further accounts they think are you.

Troll Armada7/7/2016, 3:20:22 AM1 votes

ha ha! let the negging begin!

All you cheaters who happened to get banned here and then threatened to go to Overwatch.

LMAO!!!!

They are even better than Riot at rooting you sick twisted folks out of the game,