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WoW Classic Players Banned for Exploiting a Bug

Bart Swiatek, 17 September 2019, 14:00

Players who have used an exploit that allows them to beat the same boss several times without going through the entire raid in World of Warcraft: Classic can expect a temporary ban and having the items they have gained through fraud confiscated.

This is How Apex Legends and PUBG Battle Cheaters

Milosz Szubert, 15 July 2019, 15:17

Respawn continues to fight cheaters. The company's representative gave some details about the works on eliminating this problem in Apex Legends. The creators of Playerunkown's Battlegrounds also said a few words about how to combat dishonest players.

Are You Cheating in Overwatch? The System Will Stop the Match

Konrad Serafinski, 14 July 2019, 17:53

Blizzard has announced that the new cheat prevention system will automatically stop an Overwatch match if it detects any player's malicious activity. It's a new way to fight cheaters.

Ubisoft Prepares Bans For Rainbow Six: Siege Players

Julia Dragovic, 10 July 2019, 21:15

Due to a bug in Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege spamming emots in chat will freeze the game. The company has just introduced the necessary changes, and the second stage of repairs is a ban campaign. You don't have to wait until December 6 to get the coal.

Cheaters Qualified for World Championship Finals

Frozen, 05 June 2019, 23:59

Immediately after the two-week ban for cheating in Fortnite, Damion „XXiF” Cook and Ronald „Ronaldo” Mach qualified to the world championship finals, in which the prize is 30 million dollars.

Apex Legends Cracks Down on Cheaters

Frozen, 06 May 2019, 16:09

Respawn Entertainment hasn't said the last word in the fight against cheaters. The studio has just revealed the number of PC players that have been banned for cheating in Apex Legends.

Real-Life Politician Banned in EVE Online for Corruption

Christian Pieniazek, 09 April 2019, 22:59

The career of Brisc Rubal (aka Brian W. Schoeneman in real life) in EVE Online has come to an end. The politician, who, according to CCP Games, was involved in corruption, was removed from CSM 13 and permanently banned.

Chinese Problem in Apex Legends

Milosz Szubert, 15 March 2019, 14:24

Apex Legends players are asking Respawn to introduce a region lock for China. According to the community that's where most of the cheaters are coming from.

Apex Legends - 355 Thousand Players Banned for Cheating

Adrian Werner, 10 March 2019, 21:30

Respawn Entertainment has given 355 thousand banów in Apex Legends. The developers have informed that they are working on a cheater reporting system and fixes for the issues appearing on AMD hardware.

Fallout 76 Players Banned. This Time for Duplicated Items

Agnes Adamus, 19 February 2019, 16:00

Bethesda decided to ban another group of players. This time, the banhammer was dropped on those, who used the item duplication glitch. What's interesting, the glitch had already been fixed, only to return with the recent game updates.

Apex Legends - Bans and Rumors About New Game Modes

Adrian Werner, 17 February 2019, 16:24

Further analysis of Apex Legends game files, suggests that the devs are planning 8-, 12-, and 24-player team game modes; there is also some info on bots. Meanwhile, the devs revealed the number of players banned for cheating.

Court Sentences Another GTA Online Cheat Tool Maker

Heros99, 12 February 2019, 15:40

Take-Two Interactive, the developer of Grand Theft Auto V, continues its crusade against the creators of illegal tools for the game's online mode.

Fallout 76 Player Has Entered Forbidden Crypt 63, Begs Bethesda Not to Ban Him

Bart Swiatek, 11 February 2019, 12:47

Some players accidentally found their way to the 63rd crypt in Fallout 76 - a development room, which may lead to a ban after entering it. One of players who calls himself McStaken in the game, decided to issue a 'ticket of complaint'.

Spotify Will Ban for Ad Blockers

Adrian Werner, 09 February 2019, 19:04

Soon, Spotify will change its treatment of users that block the site’s ads. The company intends to ban any account on which ad blockers are detected.

Over Million Bans On Steam - Valve Slashes CSGO Cheaters

Jacob Blazewicz, 06 February 2019, 23:44

Valve continues to fight cheaters. In January, more than one million cheaters were banned with the VAC protection system. Most of them are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players.

Battlefield 5 player banned for enabling potato mode

Bart Swiatek, 22 January 2019, 13:22

A Battlefield 5 user was banned by DICE for playing the game on visual details set below the official minimum.

Fallout 76 - further bans due to developer's room affair

Jacob Blazewicz, 18 January 2019, 00:38

To ban or not to ban. To play or not to play. The Fallout 76 drama continues and yes, ladies and gents, we have another dozen of bans due to developer's room.

Fallout 76: players find dev room, get banned by Bethesda

Adrian Werner, 12 January 2019, 20:37

Players managed to enter the so-called development room in Fallout 76, where you can get all items, including paid items and objects that have not yet been officially added to the game. Bethesda bans anyone who gets to this place.

Valve gives record number of bans in December, mainly in CS:GO

Adrian Werner, 08 January 2019, 15:25

Valve had a very busy December. Last month, more than 609 thousand bans were given, which is a record in the history of the VAC system.

The FIX PUBG initiative is officially over

Konrad Serafinski, 19 November 2018, 12:12

The information was provided by Taeseok Jang, executive producer from PUBG Corp., As a result of the 3-month long campaign the performance of the game was improved and 2 million cheaters were banned.

Rainbow Six Siege now rewards ill-mannered players with an automatic ban

Mathias Zulpo, 16 July 2018, 12:23

Rainbow Six: Siege now automatically bans players for using certain offensive words. Although the system is meant to make the game environment less toxic, it's still far from perfect.

Call of Duty: WWII PC beta is here and Steam users hate it

luckie, 29 September 2017, 12:19

It's time for PC players to test the multiplayer in Call of Duty: WWII as the open beta has gone live. So far, however, Steam users are mostly disappointed with the game.

Over 100,000 accounts banned in World of Warcraft

Jakub Mirowski, 15 May 2015, 12:53

Blizzard announced that they take serious actions against the players using bots – third-party programs that automate gameplay. Up till today, a six-months ban was imposed on over 100,000 accounts.