With Ubisoft announcing just a few days ago that it would be banning permanently banning cheaters in Rainbow Six Siege, the idea that The Division would follow suit was merely an inevitability. In no surprising motion, the developer has announced that the zero-tolerance policy will indeed be making its way to the streets of Manhattan to weed out unruly players.
Just how serious is Ubisoft? Enough to punish more than 30,000 accounts with around 10% of those receiving permanent bans over the past month. Due to a perceived likelihood of recidivism by cheaters, these bans will now be permanent on the first offense.
Following this campaign of suspensions and bans, it also became clear that while huge progress has been made in terms of cheat detection, our 14 days suspension on first offense policy has not been dissuasive enough. Judging from your feedback, and based on what we witnessed when cheaters came back to the game, we have now decided to push our policy one step further: we will now start applying permanent bans on first offense when players are caught using cheat engines and we will communicate clearly when new ban waves are taking place.
It is unlikely that Ubisoft will go as far as Blizzard has with Overwatch cheaters, banning them on subsequent accounts. Cheating has been a major problem on the PC version of The Division going as far back as the beta, with players using programs that modify client-side data to give themselves unlimited health and ammo, among other unfair advantages.
(Source: Ubisoft)
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