ZeroLives.com serves cookies to personalize content, show advertisements and analyze traffic. Information about your use of this website may be shared with third parties.
More information
OK
Articles
home
Frontpage
Latest news
PC
Xbox
Playstation
Nintendo Switch
Virtual reality
Indie
inbox
Archive
Search
today
Calendar
Live
Contact
Others
Twitter
Facebook
No one likes ads. We know that. But ads help us pay the bills. sentiment_dissatisfied
Please whitelist us in your adblocker software so that we can continue to provide quality content.
Advertisement
This website does not support Ad Blocker
Do you enjoy our journalism? We can't continue making it without advertisements. Please disable your Ad Blocker software to continue.

Blizzard bans first Overwatch cheaters

person
by
Ray
Friday, June 3, 2016 | 12:42 GMT
1 min.

Blizzard bans first Overwatch cheaters

Friday, June 3, 2016 | 12:42 GMT
person
by
Ray


Blizzard Entertainment has started banning thousands of cheaters in Overwatch, the developer confirmed earlier today. The game released last week on May 24th for PC.

In the announcement the developer revealed that it has banned over 2000 people, permanently removing the cheaters from the game.

No one likes ads. We know that. But ads help us pay the bills. sentiment_dissatisfied
Please whitelist us in your adblocker software so that we can continue to provide quality content.
Advertisement

In a surpising turn of events the developer has also released the account names of 1500 Chinese cheaters on the developer's Chinese forum. First reports indicate that the game's anti-cheat functionality is doing its job of keeping the game's multiplayer community free of people that try to get ahead through the use of unconventional methods.

The game's anti-cheat system appears to not only flag current accounts. First reports indicate that the game is also able to find cheaters that re-purchase the game to regain access, only to be banned again instantly. This could indicate that the system keeps track of a special fingerprint of the cheater's machine to be able to track them.

No one likes ads. We know that. But ads help us pay the bills. sentiment_dissatisfied
Please whitelist us in your adblocker software so that we can continue to provide quality content.
Advertisement
subject

Related video games news

Overwatch
Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard
Platforms
PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release date
PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
assignment
Learn more

About the author

person
Ray
Editor and journalist at ZeroLives. He covers the latest video games news from indie to virtual reality and has been actively involved in the video games industry since the early 2000s.
bubble_chart

Read more about

An error has occurred

Do you want to receive notifications for breaking news?
Enable notifications
No spam. Just news.
Weekly newsletter
Stay updated with our weekly newsletter. The latest news in your e-mail inbox every Saturday.
done
Subscribe
close
No thanks!
Thank you for subscribing
close
Close