Blizzard statement on Overwatch cheating

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20743596231

that YANG guy apparently still isn't banned

yang has a crazy amount of connections, don't see him getting banned any time soon

yeah but but

If a player is found to be cheating—or using hacks, bots, or third-party software that provides any sort of unfair advantage—that player will be permanently banned from the game. Full stop.

That was actually a very useful and thoughtout statement. Sadly, a statement means nothing without an anti-cheat system. We need a game built AC. In game report is cool, (and would be cooler with a CSGO style Overwatch demo review) but without an AC is there really any difference being made here?

Hopefully this game doesn't become unplayable similar to what happened in CSGO a few times. The $40 paywall should aid in that, given that people are actually being actively caught. From my experience Blizzard has done a pretty poor job at detecting things like bots in other games, most bans are a result of player reports, so my hopes aren't exactly high.

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That was actually a very useful and thoughtout statement. Sadly, a statement means nothing without an anti-cheat system. We need a game built AC. In game report is cool, (and would be cooler with a CSGO style Overwatch demo review) but without an AC is there really any difference being made here?

All modern Blizzard games use an anti-cheat called Warden, it's pretty similar to VAC. That said, what ricco said isn't necessarily wrong either, Blizzard's actual detection rate (especially if we're talking about Diablo 3 where they are only recently doing mass banwaves) is not the best. I think it's made up for by their strict legal initiative though - a combination of randomizing the addresses of almost everything on each launch in StarCraft 2 (which Overwatch also uses if you check a few illicit sites about people looking into it) and strict legal action on cheaters has basically obliterated all StarCraft 2 map hacks for example - there is literally zero working public map hacks for SC2, and while there might be a few private ones out there if there is everyone keeps it to themselves because Blizzard has a history of suing the people who hack at their games. There's practically no public WoW hacks anymore either (people just basically share game mechanic exploits nowadays), for much the same reason, there used to be but the court case against Glider really scared a lot of people off - being ordered to pay 6,000,000 USD scares people. After they took a hard stance on bots in Hearthstone those have been very few and far between, really leaving Diablo 3 as their only majorly hacked game but they've upped Warden/report ban waves pretty heavily the past few months.

So, I'd agree their detection rate is pretty poor, but they also scare people off to the point where most people don't even bother with making cheats for their games as much as like, CSGO. Diablo 3 was handled terribly though and a lot of people got complacent with botting in it since Blizzard did fuck all for literally years.