ur cute :3

(never forget)

in my case can't do sunday afternoons due to work but can do saturday evenings and just want to play something slightly more organized outside of 6 stacking matchmaking. if i could do the gosugamers stuff i would.

Definitely agree with you on that, I dunno why they'd only release account names for China. :c

Since it seems like a lot of the TF2 players I knew weren't aware that OW has the same anti-cheat that every modern Blizzard game does called Warden, here's some reassuring news that it works pretty well.

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

As promised, Blizzard is fanning the hammer at Overwatch cheaters. In China alone, 1572 players have been named, shamed and shown the door. Western cheaters are faring no better. Judging by aggrieved posts on the forums of popular hack providers, Overwatch is proving difficult to fool.

Cheaters are being hit by serial bans even after buying new copies. "Got banned one day after the official release," one enemy of fair play recounts. "Thought I got detected for using RPM tools, because the game was crashing for it at that time.

"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.

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

Is there no justice for cheaters!? Screenshot by /u/gibkeeg.
Blizzard pledged that it would be taking a no-nonsense approach to cheaters, and from the delectable wording of the ban notice, it's staying true to its word.

"Our support staff will not overturn these closures and may not respond to appeals."

Let's hope the false positives are small, eh?

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.