> Overwatch has only been out for a bit more than a week, and Blizzard is already showing cheaters and hackers the door. First up, users of a popular Overwatch cheat program began reporting bans en masse yesterday, to the point that the program’s creators have shut down authentication servers until they can figure out what to do.
> According to PC Gamer, some people are even reporting bans that span multiple copies of the game. “Bought the game again,” said one alleged cheater. “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.” They claim they even tried altering hard drive IDs, MAC address, BiosDate, and buying a VPN, but they still kept getting banned.
Thank you based Blizzard.
Fuck these scum
>>339733449
>First up, users of a popular Overwatch cheat program began reporting bans en masse yesterday, to the point that the program’s creators have shut down authentication servers until they can figure out what to do.
>figure out what to do.
Um, don't cheat?
>>339733449
>cheaters buying multiple new copies just to play again only to get immediately banned all over again
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA
>>339733449
cheat at a babby mode tf2
>>339733853
This. How delicious. Blizzard said they'd permaban cheaters and people are acting surprised they're getting banned for cheating.
>>339733987
TF2 is a babby mode TF2.
>Valve takes two (2) YEARS to ban LMAOBOX cheaters
>Blizzard takes one (1) WEEK to ban cheaters
Tip top kek.
I don't know if this is more of an indictment on how shitty Valve is or how good Blizzard is.
Good
There's too many companies out there that play softball and only gives cheaters and hackers a slap on the wrist in the form of a temporary ban and usually a short one.
It's usually with the excuse that they spent money on the game, either because they bought it or even worse is a microtransaction whale and gets special treatment.
>>339733449
anyone knows how to figure out whether or not the opponent is cheating? I have trouble separating them from the ones who are actually good
>>339733449
>According to PC Gamer, some people are even reporting bans that span multiple copies of the game. “Bought the game again,” said one alleged cheater. “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.” They claim they even tried altering hard drive IDs, MAC address, BiosDate, and buying a VPN, but they still kept getting banned.
This is how you stop cheaters. Don't go fucking soft on them. You get one chance and that's it, you're done.
>>339733449
I bet 95% of these are widowmakers who played sniper in TF2
get fucked shitters
>/v/ defending a multi billion dollar corporation stealing money from consumers.
When you buy a NEW copy of the game and don't cheat with that new copy, you shouldn't be permabanned again just because you cheated previously.
>>339733449
>they even tried altering hard drive IDs, MAC address, BiosDate, and buying a VPN, but they still kept getting banned.
That's pretty crazy. How are they identifying these people?
>>339733449
>Letting them buy another copy only to ban them again
>>339734343
>assmad cheater upset he has to face consequences
>>339733853
And they said cheaters would stop bringing in money to any dev.
lol
>>339734054
makes you wonder how bab overwatch then is
>>339734343
>once you cheat in a competition, that's it, you've learned your lesson
>you should be allowed to compete again
This is you, this is what you sound like.
>>339733449
>Barely a week old
>Already had a ban wave
How long did it took Valve to ban all those cunts this past April?
Relevant as always
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBNZnNPnfUs
Was it Widowmaker aimbots? Are my fears as a Zenyatta player jusitifed?
>>339734343
Why would buying a new copy help at all? I'm thinking about physical copies which aren't tied to any account.
>>339734343
Yeah you should, go cheat in a fucking single player game.
>>339734343
>What do you mean I can't get a new driving license? just because I ran someone over with my old car doesn't mean I'm going to do it with this one!
>>339734383
Probably a combination of all those identifiers.
So they can keep track of you if you only change one thing at a time.
>>339734093
>2 years
Try 4
It started since 2012.
>>339734224
I never even suspected anyone of cheating. Didn't see anything obvious so far, then again there's literally millions of players and only a few thousand cheaters banned so far so maybe it just isn't as prevalent as in other games.
Closest was a McCree constantly wrecking me in a desperate rush to the point. Went Winston and he kept missing and couldn't track me well when leaping around so I concluded he wasn't cheating.
>>339733449
>do something that is expected of any self respecting game
WOW THANKS BLIZZARD WHERE CAN I DUMP MY MONEY
BASED
BASED
BASED
BASED
BASED
>>339734343
Get that ass banned
no one wants you cheating cucks online
>>339734554
Widowmaker, McCree and Tracer are all popular with aimbot users.
>>339734324
This, They were cheating without any consequences for all these fucking years, and then when valve did the massive banwave and exposed thef rauds that they were, they decided to move over to overwatch and pull the same shit there
Eat shit you despicable shits. Fuck it feels great to be vindicated.
>>339734578
You won't believe how many times people run someone else over and don't lose their license and/or still can get a new one.
>>339734383
Payment address.
Also what >>339734640 said.
>>339734343
Read the fine print, you cheating fuck.
It's over 9000
>>339734093
They are just banning the poorly written obvious hacks that come out shortly after a game's release.
It will get harder once the hacks improve
>>339733987
I don't care if it's baby mode. It's way more fun.
but im still hacking in overwatch fine tho....
>>339734383
they forgot to uninstall the hacks
alternatively, they recognized their credit card when they bought the game
>>339734546
Almost 2 years. Yes, years.
>>339734343
it was clear from the get go, that cheaters get banned permanently.
cheaters are posion for the community, these peoplem are definitely at risk to cheat again, when more effective hacks are available
ban those idiots
>>339734769
some states like wisconsin let people get 3 DUIs before they take their license
>>339734383
Most likely by using companies such as Iovation who specialize into fraud detection.
>https://www.iovation.com/
Today you don't win the fight against hacking by beating cheating tool, you win by identifying bad users and preventing them to return.
Pretty certain that most of these cheaters left trace them enabled Blizzard to identify them again.
>>339734343
Don't cheat don't get banned. It's simple.
>be PC master race
>get banned
KEK
>in other news, BB player count quadrupled
ok and how many banned for shittalking?
>>339734383
Payment method, obviously.
>>339734949
based
>>339734803
Which is why their doing a scorched earth tactic now rather than later.
>>339734343
Do you also believe criminal records shouldn't exist and nobody should ever be discriminated against for previous felony convinctions
>>339734842
It's just a matter of time.
Have fun not being able to play a Blizzard game ever again.
>>339734343
you cucks ruined CSGO to the point where even ESEA is unplayable at times, fuck off
>keeps buying the game several times after getting banned
TOP KEK
how stupid are hackers?
>>339733698
Not everyone is aimbotting. some people are doing things like sweet fx or monitoring variables using .dll's
>>339734983
>BB becomes a shitfest full of hackers
They can have their containment game
>>339734814
yet you cheat at it. when it already gives free kills and free wins
>>339733449
>Cheat
>Get banned
>"OK I'll stop"
>Buy it again like a good goy
>Still get banned
Why is this allowed?
>>339733698
They'll find a way to go around it
They always do
>>339734383
Blizzard has knowledge of your hardware.
>>339734224
Watch their fan the hammers. If you see someone get fanned and the mccree stays directly on their fucking face for every shot including the jump, it's an aimbot.
Actually watch potg. They usually give themselves away there.
If you have a suspicion of it, suicide on that person several times as a speedy character with kill cam on. If they have perfect accuracy, report.
Pharahs with upwards of 60% direct hits are usually cheating. Watch them and notice how they avoid far off combat. Their programs are shit at leading slow rockets so they stay close. Similar to Hanzos. Be wary of any Hanzo player who stays close to the front. Some are just aggressive snipers, others are getting close to make their arrows autoaim easier.
Tracers, Genjis, and Reapers using autoaim give themselves away super easy. Twitch aiming for high accuracy is incredibly easy to notice.
Anything that isn't an aimbot is usually so obvious you don't need help noticing it.
When in doubt, report. A false flag is easily disproven by Blizz. Helping them find a discrete cheater is invaluable though.
TF2's still the better game, but Blizzard's support is ridiculously better than Valve's.
I guess they figured if they couldn't make a better game, they'd go all in and make everything else better.
Well, I guess good on Blizzard for figuring out where their strengths lie and sticking to them.
I would like to find some friends to play this game with but I don't have any IRL friends or online friends.
>>339735059
monitoring variables is effectively cheating,
just because you don't visualize them as an wallhack doesn't make it better
>>339734842
>implying that using a program you didn't write and clicking on "start" is hacking
>>339734983
No joke, Battleborn doesn't have a report function. Cheaters are common and if you're playing one you just have to deal with it.
> b..but I can just leave
If you leave a match early and try to play another match, you're automatically brought back to the same server until the match ends.
If there's anything that infuriates me, is these closet hackers going around in comps, getting
praised for their 'skill'.
This is more prevalent in CS:GO, were there's a mass of closet hackers going around.
>>339735114
>needing to be harshly punished before you follow the rules
This is a child's mentality.
>>339735059
>Monitoring variables
/g/ would have a field day with that post of yours.
The post of anon.
Which anon posted.
From anon by anon.
>>339734093
This is banning for things like wallhacks. In my experience, Blizzard has no idea how to deal with botters, which was the issue with Diablo 3 and TF2.
>>339735240
What the hell is a closet hacker?
>>339735114
Sounds pretty good to me.
>>339733449
>bought the game three times
>>339735114
>>339735058
They don't really care as they'll just chargeback the transactions. They're already banned, they got nothing to lose doing a chargeback.
>>339734851
why dont they just buy a $50 prepaid visa like drug dealers do
>>339735114
You're only stopping until the better hack comes out.
Enjoy Battleborn, tell Burch hi at the next cuck meeting.
>>339735294
hackers who get away with hacking and pretend it's skill. It's disgusting
>let them buy game again
>ban after 2 days
genius
>>339735294
I assume he means high profile players who secretly hack? Closet hacker sounds like a silly thing to say, as if anyone would actually admit to hacking while playing.
>playing Overwatch on a computer
>using arrow keys to move
Serves em right
>>339735339
Because you can't chargeback these, it's actually more clever to use a normal card. However say goodbye to buying anything Blizz related again with it.
Yet it took Valve more than 4 years to get rid of LMAObox.
>>339735309
You act surprised. You shouldn't be.
>>339735139
>A false flag is easily disproven by Blizz
I sincerely doubt that. Most of the time they only look into people who have more than X reports on them in short amount of time since they don't have the time to look into reports little timmy made because someone called him out on being a fucking kid on teen/adult rated game.
If it meant doubling or even tripling their revenue, they'd ban everyone on the game.
>>339735059
Isn't that kind of shit against the Terms & Conditions of the game too?
Get fucked cheaters
ITT people that do not know what hacking means
>>339735338
Except the rest of their Blizzard account.
>>339735181
If you're decent, you may find people who will add you and invite you to a group. It's happened to me twice so far since starting.
>>339735173
TF2 plays like shit ever since they "rebalanced" it. It doesn't even feel like the same game. It's absolute completely irredeemable trash now.
Playing Overwatch feels like playing vanilla TF2 all over again
>>339735460
The fuck are you talking about?
>>339735246
But they were punished harshly, and then they did follow the rules, and they still got fucked over.
>>339734383
It could be IP Address, Payment methods, other apps selling your data to blizzard.
The list is endless, honestly.
>>339735485
Yet it's still around isn't it? I went into a valve server last week and had a system message being spammed every 5 seconds saying to go buy it.
>>339734343
>When you buy a NEW copy of the game and don't cheat with that new copy, you shouldn't be permabanned again just because you cheated previously.
Nah a zero tolerance policy is better. It's the cheater's fault for ruining the fun for hundreds and thousands of other players. If you don't like it go play something else.
>>339735536
Haha fuck them!
>>339733449
They are being banned by the windows product key. Any program has access to it if they ask for it.
>>339735339
Blizzard doesn't accept payment from prepaid cards.
>>339735114
Cheaters need to be gone. I wouldn't mind if people who cheat in online games got banned from all online games. Such an agreement wouldn't be impossible, in fact. E.g. when signing the EULA, the user might be asked to agree to the rules of a general anticheat organization, and if they break those rules, the player will be banned from games by all companies that participate in this organization. E.g. cheat in a EA shooter = get banned from Street Fighter V, WoW and Dark Souls. How good would that be?
>>339735536
Which has no value to a cheater, unless they're retarded and used it on their main. Even if they did, what's of value on a Blizzard account? And if charge are recent enough, you can still CB up to a year after a transaction has been made (at least in EU you can).
>your game has so many cheaters that you have to ban thousands of them just to remain playable
And dropped. I refuse to support a game that even allows these cheats one single moment to play the game.
>>339733449
At least they are doing something good.
>>339735498
Wait, what the fuck, these "hacks" cost money too? Who the fuck would pay for this?
>>339735673
Is that the drink with the marble in it?
That shit is so dumb.
>>339734343
Cheat ad many times as you want in single player. On multiplayer you're cheating on other people's expense. Fuck you.
Why do faggots feel the need of hacking?
Just to get some e-status over an online community because they're losers in real life?
>>339735591
You shouldn't need to be harshly punished in order for you to follow the rules.
>>339733449
>shitaku
>nathan grayson
>source is pc gamer comments
I'm not saying its bullshit, but I think
>They claim they even tried altering hard drive IDs, MAC address, BiosDate, and buying a VPN, but they still kept getting banned.
might be
>>339734343
Why?
Cheaters are harming their business since it makes the game less attractive to the majority of their customers. In that regard they're free to ban people for life from their games.
>>339735591
The point is there should be no tolerance for acting like a child in an online community.
>>339734695
Name one game that bans your account and hardware when you cheat.
>>339735263
Diablo 2 was fucking unplayable with all the bots.
>>339735771
It's funny right?
PC players won't pay for games but they'll gladly pay for hacks.
>inb4 they paid Overwatch
Just compare the number of retards who bought lmaobox.
>>339735338
Doesn't doing a charge back too many times hurt your credit score or something?I don't know what a credit score is.
>>339735591
They would have likely started using cheats the moment they were reported as safe. What Blizzard is doing is eliminating people with the right mentality as early as possible before cheating gets hard to detect (which will definitely happen after a while).
>>339735114
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
awww yus gtfo cheaters
>>339735945
Heck, he should name a company that gives the slightest fuck about hacking.
>>339735935
Then why would you be able to buy the game again?
>>339734343
I don't agree with this. I cheated in MW3 (shit PC, felt justified using a texture pack that made shit easier to see) and I was a little butthurt when I was banned. In retrospect I fucking deserve that ban showing on my Steam profile so everyone knows I'm a piece of shit that thinks he deserves better than others.
I feel like the fact that it was way over a thousand days ago makes it possible to forgive me for some, but in others' eyes I will always be a cheater and I understand this.
>>339735694
enjoy not playing any game ever
>>339735694
(You)
>>339735951
Nah, however with chargebacks the other company can rebuttal and possibly get the refund denied by the bank. Apparently Visa cards have a higher chargeback success rate than Mastercard.
>>339736126
Actually, they probably did questionable shit right away to their installs. Maybe they didn't USE the cheats, but they might have had cheating software on their machines when reinstalling, for example.
system restore windows will stop the chain of bans.
>>339734343
That is not how the eula works.
You can buy as many copies as you like, blizzard still has the right to deny you access to their product for literally any reason they want, forever and ever, and in buying the game you accept that.
>>339735694
Serious question, are you retarded?
>>339736092
>Then why would you be able to buy the game again?
Because they're more than happy to accept money from someone who is banned's futile attempt to try to evade the ban.
>>339735694
How's undertale?
>>339735673
People like you is the reason why I cheat.
>>339734910
That's nothing, man. Move near the reservation. There's drunk Navajo shitbags that you see on the local news all the time with 20-40 DUIs but they live on the rez so the state can't yank their license since it's issued by their hilariously corrupt and retarded """government""". Even if they get caught out of the rez driving drunk, some other drunk native cop comes stumbling in to the drunk tank to take the offender back to their car and ain't nothing no one can do about it.
Navajos are literally the worst people on the planet. Drunken, sister raping, shitting in parking lots, give me money white man, pieces of shit. Every single one of them.
>>339734983
4 times almost nothing is still nothing impressive.
>mfw there's a slight, slight chance this widowmaker I reported last night may just be banned
I know I'm probably just be a salty shitter but fuck, this sniper just DID NOT MISS HEADSHOTS, like ever
I just cannot accept that a human being has the reaction time and precision that this fat lard did
>>339733449
PCuck race all over again
Hey guys. Wanna play some counter strike?
>>339736468
Actually, the last online game I played was TF2 in, like, 2007. So nah, you cheat because you're a cuntwipe.
>>339734093
Ones a rootkit and the other is not. CSGO for example also has hundreds of cheats where the majority of them are obscure private ones that the VAC team hasn't got their hands on to ban the signature of said cheat. Whereas overwatch is new, give it time.
>>339736472
My family took a vacation though navajo land on the way to the grand canyon and the moment they saw CA plates I had 4 or 5 kids trying to sell me shitty beads
Cheating in Overwatch is like using doping at the paralympics.
>>339735951
Maybe in the US. It's forbidden in my country for sure, chargeback is a right your card issuer or bank cannot deny. And when you paid for something and is unable to access it (even if you broke Blizzard rules, which have no legal ground in most countries outside the US), your bank will grant you a chargeback.
Hell so many whales on mobile games spend 100's and then just reverse charges, they get their game account banned but who cares.
>>339734725
Yeah, I've seen a Widowmaker aimbot, followed my movements behind a wall during the Killcam.
I suspect I've seen Tracer aimbots too.
>>339736642
OW put a shit ton of care in creating the game. I am pretty sure they cared enough to put something in there to detect cheaters.
Where can I find hi rez images of skins?
>>339736768
>doesn't know about widow's ult
>>339736782
That's not really how it works. And if some defense can be programmed, the guys that make the cheats can potentially program a way around it.
>>339734383
your battle.net ID, perhaps?
>>339736468
Well i guess you're the reason you're getting fucked in the ass by Blizzard this very moment
>>339736824
Google images you fucking idiot.
>>339735498
>paying money to be a shitter
FOR WHAT FUCKING PURPOSE?
serves em right
>>339735463
You can use molpoint payment things so you can buy OW without using credit cards.
>>339736858
You can see if she ulted during the killcam, idiot.
The red silhouettes show up.
>>339736858
That would show up on the killcam.
>>339734343
Once a Cheater, always a Cheater. Just look at Valve's VAC forums, them niggas just don't stop and it's hilarious.
>>339736397
That's foul business.
>>339736858
In the replay you can see when you're being wall hacked by widow's ult.
Not on this one.
>>339736907
Are you retarded?
>>339737052
>>339737056
>retards still don't know about the ult
>>339735946
t. d3 turbohud botter cancer
>>339736782
>OW put a shit ton of care in creating the game.
If they did, the meaningless features such as commendations and potgs wouldn't be in it.
It's a fucking cashgrab on tf2's success.
These people pay money to cheat at and get banned from an online game they already paid for. I don't understand. How do they justify all this spending just so they get lots of kills. Do you need to have a tiny penis to understand?
>>339737154
>Oh shit I got called on...
>BETTER CALL THEM IDIOTS ANYWAYS
Just stop dude.
>>339735059
They deserved to get banned for using piss filters.
>>339737073
It's been 13 years since I last cheated.
Are you claiming I'm still a cheater? If so, when will I cheat again?
>>339733449
There were Russians cheating in open beta, no wonder cheating got so widespread so fast.
>>339737215
>A cashgrab on TF2's success
>Not a last minute recuperating of the failed project known as Titan to make as much money back as possible
>>339737305
And this is why I don't want it to go F2P.
>>339733449
See, this is the reason why it was actually good to put a price tag to this game.
No really. It is. It makes the players aware that they fucking spent money on it and are wary for this type of problems and they won't want to do it.
But of course cheaters still try.
>>339737256
>STILL doesn't know about the fucking ult
If you cheat in a Blizzard game, 99.9% of the time they'll catch you and your account will be permabanned. They've gotten really good at it after dealing with WoW Chinks for 12 years. Blizzard has always had a merciless banhammer. This is not surprising.
>>339733449
If they ban people from the game completely regardless of what they do, isn't it illegal to permaban them?
I don't know, banning their account forever and a personal ban for a year seems fair to me, but permanently banning the person to ever play that product seems kinda awful.
>>339737154
dat backpedaling tho
>>339736689
Well, they do make some pretty rad rugs so they have that going for them.
>>339737346
Yes. That's what cashgrabs are for. To make as much money back as possible.
And apparently it's working.
>>339735771
VIP Hacks are a great way to ensure a hack stays under the radar of the anticheat solution. Have thousands of kids running around with free hacks and see how fast they're busted.
Also the companies won't get the hands on the cheats when it costs money. A free hack is easy to analyze and detect. Reminds me of this one CS hack that costs like 1000€ a month but was basically never detected.
>>339733449
But cheaters can still play the singleplayer campaign right? People aren't spending $60 for a hastily slapped together multiplayer only game are they?
>>339735498
Isn making hacks themselves illegal in some way?
>>339737215
If it was a cashgrab on TF2 it would've come out years ago
This is just using a fuckton of assets/ideas from Titan to make up all the cash they blew on its development
>>339735829
For me is hard to believe that someone cant face the fact of loosing in a video game.
>>339737154
>>339737506
Yeah but it's not a cashgrab on TF2's success.
>>339737441
>isn't it illegal to permaban them?
The game is a service. They just sell you the license to use their product and since there's no unauthorized servers they can just revoke your rights to use the online effectively disabling your access completely legally.
>>339737434
This. They're fucking brutal. I was recently banned from WoW for 6 months for doing some minor botting and I got the same treatment as people who bot for commercial use.
>>339736468
>I-I don't cheat because I'm bad, I cheat t-to make people i'll never actually meet online angry.
>>339737441
I bet is all in the terms of use nobody reads
hack download link pls
>>339735620
This. Don't cheat in the first goddamn place. Never cheat in online games that have any form of pvp, period. Single player games? Go for it! Cheat the FUCK out of those if you want. It's all you, bro. But the minute you go into multiplayer or can use that singleplayer shit in multiplayer, you need to fuck right off.
>>339735673
That's already what's more or less happening with fraud preventing/screening companies. Cheating is often linked with fraud in online gaming. Publishers don't care about cheating on its own, they care about money.
Cheaters are more likely to reverse transactions, compromise accounts or server security, do illegal business (RMT) etc. All of the above impact publishers revenues.
Technologies to identify and differentiate online devices are becoming more and more advanced. (See Iovation or similar). So people will still be able to cheat, but only couple times before being identified and banned. If you make it really annoying to cheat, then way less people will do it.
>>339737441
They ban "people" not account, it's something players tends to forget. It's their right to just deny you the access to their product. It's most likely legal in the US (hell everything is legal there as long as you have good lawyers and lot of money) and illegal in many other countries in the world (hence why you can still reverse transactions easily).
>>339737441
They can do whatever they want.
>>339733449
>the program’s creators have shut down authentication servers until they can figure out what to do
Is this a Trump meme?
This whole thread is about a fake article, isn't it?
>>339734343
yes you should, piece of trash
>someone bought the game 3 times
This is worse than the cheating.
Get a fucking life good lord.
>>339737678
it can easily be both
you look pretty angry right now
>>339737531
>overwatch
>single player campaign
That's cute. You're cute.
>>339735945
it's only "technically" a game, but Second Life will ban your hardware ID as well as account if they catch you doing certain shit that's not allowed.
>>339737864
Why on Earth would you mock the idea of a full priced game being full featured? Just who is actually being cute here?
>>339737227
For the life of me I have no idea.
You spend money to play the game, then you spend more money to cheat in said game.
And then after a week they get banned and either they don't care, or they get mad because blizzard isn't playing softball like every other company.
In either case they've spent a decent chunk of change just to be an ass online for a few days, because... I don't know.
>>339737535
Selling them and/or distributing them in any way or form probably.
>>339737816
>a block of text looks angry
>>339737729
It's a common practice for paid cheats to have auth servers in order to ensure that users are paying their "licence" to be able to cheat. Cheating IS a business nowadays for tools creators. It's more than just being an annoyance.
Back then in FF XI you could see in real time how many users were using a specific botting tool (FF XI app) and it was 200~300 users per servers easily. There were 32ish servers or something, and each licence for the software was $29.99 IIRC.
Do the maths. That's almost $200K~$300K for making a bot. There was an even fancier botting tool which was sold to guilds for $5K US (every linkshell members would chip in) as well.
>>339737915
Thankfully sinking my foot long knotted fox cock into lolis is allowed.
>>339733449
>Didn’t hack on it at all, just wanted to enjoy the game a bit. Two days later—banned again.
delicious
based Blizzard
>>339737535
Haha, no. They're legal greyzones.
>>339737974
It is a full-featured multiplayer-only game.
There's nothing worse than a shoddy MP mode shoehorned into a single-player game or vice versa.
>>339737434
Bullshit. I mountainclimbed.exe in vanilla for a year and never even got as much as a warning despite glitching up and through walls in ironforge and casting chain lightning through said walls to PK
>>339733449
Thnak you based vigilant Brittleborn community members.
>>339735623
>>339735685
And the card holders NAME.
Put on a register of fraudlient offenders.
They'll never do with blizzard again :^)
>>339734343
If you can't do the time don't do the crime.
I really don't understand why you'd want to hack on a multiplayer game. It really makes no sense for me.
>>339737704
>Publishers don't care about cheating on its own, they care about money.
Actually, everyone cares about customer satisfaction a lot. For an online game, it's pretty important that the experience doesn't get ruined by retarded kids with l337 enough h@ck skillz to install third party software.
>>339738113
DINDU NUFFIN
>>339738140
>Full-featured
>Multiplayer only
>Overwatch isn't a shoddy MP mode shoehorned into a game without anything else to back it
Ho-kay buckaroo.
FUUUUUUCK!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I JUST GOT BANNED!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK THIS GAME!!!!!
>>339738141
also used it in WSG to capture the flag before the match even started. blizzcucks
>>339738140
>There's nothing worse than a shoddy MP mode shoehorned into a single-player game
Agreed. Man, I still have so much respect for the Yager devs who genuinely stated "yeah, multiplayer in Spec Ops was a cancerous tumor forced by our publisher." Say what you will about the game but for a dev to be honest like that is based as fuck.
>>339734343
Cheaters have 0 rights fuck em till they die
>>339738375
Screenshot. Here's your you.
>>339735294
>>339735771
>>339736968
Many modern hacks are designed to be undetectable to not just anti-cheat software, but even simply watching one's screen. Aimbots that are far from the old days of the crosshair locking on instantly to people. ESP and wallhacks that won't show up on screenshots and streams and can be quickly hidden or very cleverly disguised.
Cheating programs have become so complex and nuanced both in how they function and in their ability to go undetected in an age of very observant anti-cheating systems that those capable of making them have found a business in selling and regularly updating their hacks.
There have been several "confessionals" from cheaters who subscribe to these things over the years. A notable one being a guy who cheated in Battlefield 3, bought the game four times after being banned each time. He must have spent hundreds of dollars not just on the games, but on the monthly subscription to the cheating "service". He didn't mind at all spending so much money on one game just to win, because apparently he was just so damn bad at video games.
>>339733449
>“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.” They claim they even tried altering hard drive IDs, MAC address, BiosDate, and buying a VPN, but they still kept getting banned.
banning again a legitimate copy is illegal, this guy is full of shit
>>339737697
TotallyNotAVirus...TrustMeImADolphin.exe
>>339733449
>But before doing that, I deleted Overwatch and launcher completely. Enjoyed it again without cheating only for a day.” They claim they even tried altering hard drive IDs, MAC address, BiosDate, and buying a VPN, but they still kept getting banned.
I bet they didn't try a different payment method.
It shows the the core of Blizzard is still run by a ragtag bunch of college friends who just like making games fun for people. Chris Metzen reminds me of my childhood friend's dad who'd always take turns playing Warcraft with us and taking us to arcades.
>Cheaters get banned even when they don't cheat on new accounts
>>339735114
>Murder
>Get arrested
>"OK I'll stop"
>Break out of prison
>Live as a responsible, law-abiding citizen once free
>Still get brought back to prison
Why is this allowed?
>>339734343
Stay mad cheaterfag
>>339738508
The guy probably is full of shit, but you are also retarded because there's nothing illegal about it.
>>339733449
>sensationalist articles again
>/v/ of course falls for it again
ebin
simply ebin
keep believe everything they tell you, especially that TOTALLY RANDOM guy that complained about tracer's ass that got even more publicity for this shill game
go on
give them more of their attention
oh by the way
this game is a week old, fuck off to >>>/vg/ already you asperger ridden retards
>>339735231
>Cheaters are common
Nah. I have136 hoursin the game, the amount of cheaters is no different than pretty much any online shooter. I dont understand why /v/ seems to hate the game so much. You know you can like more than one game at a time, right? I enjoy both OW and BB.
>>339737974
You said $60, it's $40 - It's designed as a "competitive" multiplayer title, and who the fuck players single players for these games? it's like caring about Street Fighter's "single player" where you just fight through a gauntlet of other chars.
>>339738202
In most countries that's illegal though. You aren't allowed to store such data and identify people by their names just like that. It's definitely forbidden in EU, you can't create a "ban list" you'd share between companies, hell even fucking banks can't do that so freely, shit's tightly regulated.
Even hashed IPs have to be wiped after 2 years at most (Google got sued and fined HARD for that).
Remember we have a history were we put jews on list in order to kill them later, so in EU we're not super found on collecting personal data and sharing them just to prevent something as minor as "cheating". That shit isn't being done properly across countries for terrorism so yeah...
>>339738272
They care about customers satisfaction because it impacts revenues. Not because it make them sleep better at night knowing you're enjoying their product obviously.
Cheating is causing way more damage than just being an annoyance, random l33t haxors just wanting to show off to their friends are only the tip of the iceberg. Cheating cost LOTS of money to companies due to related fraud. A company like Blizzard probably have 100+ employees dedicated to fraud and cheating prevention. That has a cost as well.
>>339738504
>He didn't mind at all spending so much money on one game just to win, because apparently he was just so damn bad at video games.
I will never understand this mentality. Winning is meaningless if you cheat.
>>339738508
Once you've accepted the license agreement that says "DON'T CHEAT OR WE CAN REVOKE YOUR ACCESS", it doesn't matter how many copies you buy. You violated the license. It's the same exact license no matter how many times you buy the game
>>339738639
>>Break out of prison
Actually, buying the game again would count as having served your time.
Good try at a broken analogy though.
>>339738660
>I have never read an EULA before
kys you mongoloid
>>339736639
I don't understand, why do you care so much then? I'm not someone who's ever considered using cheats but I never get angry when I see someone who does, especially if they're really obvious about it, like zipping around the map at the speed of light or flying around shooting lightning bolts from their hammer. Some of the best fun I've had in ds2 was getting invaded by cheaters who made themselves boss characters or watching tool assisted or his bots in sf4/5. At the end of the day it's just a game.
>>339733449
>cheaters get permabanned
>literally
>they can't even buy a new copy of the game without getting banned
Seems a bit extreme, but I love it.
THIS IS BULLSHIT /V/!!!!!! I JUST GOT BANNED FOR NO FUCKING REASON!!!! BLIZZARD IS A BUNCH OF FUCKING ASSHOLES
>>339738106
That's actually what the main thing they ban Hardware for, ageplay. Assuming you get caught/reported by a drama queen, which has been happening en masse the last few months.
>>339734343
i seriously wish cheating got you banned from all games forever
>>339738714
You find me a way to buy it retail for $40 for 2/3 of the platforms its on. I'll wait.
>tfw you are cheating in cs go with a vip hack for nearly 3 straight years now
>tfw Global Elite
>tfw about 90% of the people hack here
>valve doesnt give a single fuck
Can't stop my buybower ;)
>>339738553
Metzen does seem like a guy that just wants to make cool shit and it's too bad he's still wasted at Blizzard instead of a smaller team where he'd actually get to run with his stupid ideas instead of having to cater to WoW's retarded masses.
>>339734949
>Today you don't win the fight against hacking by beating cheating tool, you win by identifying bad users and preventing them to return.
Pretty sure keeping a private database of people like that goes against a lot of legislations.
>>339738739
it's not the same you retarded mong, there's a separate contract for every piece of merchandise, it's called EULA you stupid retard, If you buy another copy it's a separate thing completely, hence why valve bans ID's instead of copies, learn basic law before trying to shitpost on the internet you fucking smelly fart.
>>339738727
People don't care, see how these mobile games are making millions. Look at supercell, their games are literally "pay to be the best", and yet millions of people do pay.
Look at Asian online gaming market, esports/competitive games aside, everything else is pay to win shit.
>>339737537
Blizzard is really slow on new ideas.
Magic the gathering and other card games were there for more than 20 years yet heartstone is booming.
After dota's success, 2-3 years later they launched their own moba and people hailed it as the new coming of christ. Then again, that happens every time a new moba comes out.
Diablo 3 was a failure and still managed to make them money.
Blizzard is only into cashgrabs now.
>>339734343
my hatred for your kind exceeds my hatred for companies
go get fucked and stay the fuck out of any and all vidya
>>339738778
Stop being a full blown retard, man. Please.
>>339738791
>I don't understand, why do you care so much then?
What makes you think I care so much? I just find satisfaction in people getting b& from the game forever because they were shits. I'm enjoying virtual violence against people I don't like, as simple as that. That doesn't mean I feel strongly about theg ames themselves, because I fucking hate online shooters and always have.
>>339735550
The moment valve added the demo knight was when things went downhill.
>>339738876
Identifying devices is allowed, users? Not, you're right. But when companies like iovation exists and claim to "recognize" over 3 billions devices openly, I hardly doubt it's illegal or they'd get sued hard.
>>339736968
>FOR WHAT FUCKING PURPOSE?
FUCK YOU I WANT TO WIN. That is the entire thought process of the cheater.
>>339738753
No, it really wouldn't. Try contacting customer service and offering them the value of the game in cash if they will lift your ban. They won't do it.
If you had served your time, they would have lifted the ban.
Good try at evading the consequences of your actions, though.
>>339738852
Not the other person, but it's still $40 for the base game. The $20 inflation is from the stupid skins and other pixels.
>>339738639
>>339738753
>get your driver's license
>buy a new car
>intentionally crash your car and 11 others' cars in the process every time you get on the road
>get your car impounded and your license revoked
>buy a new car and drive it responsibly
>it gets impounded too because you don't have a license to drive it
fixed
Games have licenses.
>>339734343
>i-ill stop swear
fuck off, druggie
>>339739132
So there's a version console owners can buy sans skins? Great sign me up.
>>339734383
Probably payment method, or these fag cheaters are just full of shit. (More likely).
