Blizzard Serious About Banning Overwatch Cheaters
Even though the game has just been out about a week, Blizzard has already dropped the Ban Hammer on more than 1500 Overwatch players. 1572 (and likely rising) players have been banned in China for cheating.
Blizzard is serious about this, guys. Don't Cheat. Each and every one of the cheaters have been called out by username on Blizzard's official (chinese) forums and screenshots from PC gamer show some forum topics blowing at about bans.
Seems some western cheaters not having much luck cheating either. One person really went all out to try to play this game after getting banned and simply couldn't get past Blizzard's digital Bouncers.
"Bought the game during the beta, did a d3d11 wallhack which wasn't the best thing but meh."
"Got banned 1 day after the official release, though i got detected for using some RPM tools because the game was crashing for it at that time."
"Bought the game again... didn't want to hack on it at all, just watned to enjoy the game a bit on it.
Two days later - banned again."
"Bought the game ... again, but before doing that, i've deleted Overwatch and launcher completely.
Enjoyed it again without cheating for only a day."
After this, he waits a few days and decides its time to get serious about a workaround. He changed his HD Drive letters, changed his MAC Address, changed some of the processor ID in the registry, changed BiosDate in registry, and bought a VPN, all in an attempt to slip past Blizzard's Bouncers and into the Overwatch party. Didn't work.
"Went to buy the game once again, played it for a bit and got banned in-game ... again without using any sort of cheats/hacks.
So i guess i need to say goodbye to this game, i regret poking around d3d11 during the beta...
Conclusion: They might have file(registry) marked my computer and i might need to reinstall my OS to remove their HWID ban."
Ouch. Sounds like he's not getting back into Blizzard's first-person hero shooter anytime soon. Blizzard is going hardcore serious on those cheaters. Let's hope there aren't too many cases of legit players with "unsavory software," we'll say, installed on their machines that don't deserve the Ban Hammer getting banned.
