
Cheaters, griefers, and trolls banned from Overwatch for the use of aimbots and other hacks might want to stay away from buying a new copy lest they waste even more of their own money. According to posts popping up on various cheat forums, Blizzard is showing no mercy (unlike the screenshot above) when it comes to people using cheats. Take these accounts with a grain of salt, but players are also reporting bans being handed out to players who didn’t cheat in the live game but used various injection programs in beta, while those who do cheat in the live game are reporting pretty fast bans.
But it goes further: Again, you can take this report with a grain of salt, but we’re taking comments from places where people don’t exactly have a reason to lie about cheating. According to numerous posts, people are continuing to get banned on their second or third accounts after re-buying the game and uninstalling whatever program they were using. Apparently Blizzard is fingerprinting computers and simply banning subsequent accounts after a couple of days once they show up with the same ID as a previously banned account.
Blizzard has already commented that their ban policy is one of zero tolerance and is immediately closing support tickets for banned accounts.