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Temtem Clubs Cheaters: Almost 900 Permanently Banned
Temtem developer Crema today fired not so much a warning shot as a warning kill by announcing the ban of nearly 900 accounts from the newly launched MMO. All accounts in question have been permanently banned with no chance of appeal, with Crema stating their 100% confidence that each account has been caught cheating or abusing exploits.
We just completed our first batch of banned users. Almost 900 players have been permanently banned from Temtem.
Bans are final, we won’t answer or review any ban appeal. We’ve made 100% sure that every banned user is either a cheater or has abused exploits intentionally.
— Temtem (@PlayTemtem) February 3, 2020
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The statement that Crema won’t be reviewing any ban appeals had some members of the community concerned to say the least, as one could cite hundreds of examples of developers messing up and issuing false bans that are later overturned.
The team spent all morning checking banned accounts and player accounts saying “they didn’t do anything illegal”. We re-checked over 100 accounts.
Every single one of them was a legit ban.
— Temtem (@PlayTemtem) February 3, 2020
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Crema has since walked back their comment on a no appeals policy. Players who are banned and believe that it was out of error can appeal their ban by contacting Crema’s support email.
We’ve decided to review ban appeals, even though every single one of the ones we checked are legit. Like you said, having a “no appeal” policy is not good.
So, you can contact us on support@cremagames.com
Put “Ban appeal” as the subject and include your ingame ID or username.
— Temtem (@PlayTemtem) February 3, 2020
Kritika Reboot Names And Shames Latest Ban Wave
Kritika Reboot has a problem with gold farmers and cheaters. Who doesn’t?
Every so often the folks at ALLM Co. publish a list of banned accounts presumably as a form of public hanging and potentially to convince potential cheaters/gold buyers to not do those things. This week marked the temporary suspension of 77 accounts with 161 accounts being permanently suspended for the use of unauthorized programs. ALLM took the time to remind users of its continuing pledge to remove cheaters from the game.
Stop cheatin’.
Source: Steam
Z1 Battle Royale: We Ban By Hardware ID, and Hardware ID Scramblers
Z1 Battle Royale has been on a warpath since being taken over by NantG Mobile, and Jace Hall wants everyone to know that the company is taking cheating very seriously. In a post on Twitter, Hall noted that over 800 accounts were banned on December 7 alone with plenty more to come.
In response to another user’s question about cheaters coming back, Anthony Castoro responded that the company implements hardware ID bans as well as bans on HWID scramblers.
We do HWID bans. And we ban HWID scramblers. We also ban by IP, but you have to becareful with that because most people are on DHCP.
— Anthony Castoro (@CastoroGamer) December 9, 2018
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Source: Twitter
Epic Settles Lawsuit Against Minor Fortnite Cheater
Epic Games has agreed to voluntary dismissal and settlement in its lawsuit against a minor filed last year in the eastern district of North Carolina court. As part of the lawsuit and due to the defendant being a minor, certain documents have been sealed on order of the court and the defendant has since been simply named by his initials M.F. Epic had instigated the lawsuit after filing a DMCA takedown notice against the defendant’s video allegedly advertising cheats in their game Fortnite. When the defendant counter-claimed the video, Epic issued its complaint to the court.
Plaintiff Epic Games, Inc., by and through its attorneys, hereby gives notice of the settlement and dismissal of this action. Each party shall bear its or his own attorneys’ fees and costs.
The terms of the settlement are not being made public. Epic’s other lawsuit against another minor is still being pursued, with a recent court document submitted detailing issues that the prosecution had with finding and serving the defendants.
(Source: Court Dockets)
Survarium Kills Off More Cheaters
Survarium developer Vostok Games has announced a new ban wave of 139 players over the past week for the use of prohibited software. For those unaware, Vostok Games is one of the few developers willing to name and shame the players who are punished in their public announcements. You can find the entire list below, however many of the names will be illegible if you don’t happen to read Cyrillic.
For more coverage of Survarium, check out our first impressions.
(Source: Survarium)
If You’re Banned From Overwatch, Don’t Bother Buying It Again
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.
Survarium Slams Cheaters, Bans Over 100
Survarium developer Vostok Games has announced another wave of bans, removing one hundred accounts for violating the game’s rules on using cheats. All of the accounts can be found, by name, on the Steam announcement page. Vostok regularly posts the names of accounts banned for cheating, and recommends that players use the report tool at the end of the match to report any suspicious players.
We remind everyone that use of prohibited software is a serious violation and it is punished with a permanent ban. 101 accounts were permanently banned from March the 14th to March the 21st because their owners have used prohibited software to gain an advantage in the game.
If you follow the link below, you can also find a comprehensive list of accounts that have been previously banned in Survarium.
(Source: Survarium)
Hacking Down 90% In H1Z1, Says Smedley
Daybreak Game Company has quite a history of cracking down hard on cheaters, and in a recent Reddit post John Smedley has claimed that hacking in H1Z1 is down 90% compared to last month.
The honest reality is that we’ve knocked hacking down to about 10% of what it was a month ago. We’re still working on no-clip cheaters. We’ve got a good system to track them, but we’re working on actually preventing it. Not a simple problem. Aimbotters are tough, but we’ve made great progress against them too.
Daybreak Game Company has been ruthless in its hunt of cheaters in both Planetside 2 and H1Z1, both in the effectiveness of its anti-cheat (see previous link) and the company’s habit of publicly shaming cheaters via Twitter.
(Source: Reddit)
Guild Wars 2 Kills, Deletes, Then Bans Cheater
What could be worse than having your account publicly banned on an MMO? When the developer films themself logging into your account and manually deleting your characters. Chris Cleary, game security lead over at Arenanet, did just this against a rather notable cheater, first committing suicide and then logging out and deleting his characters, all uploaded to Youtube.
Cleary posted later in the same thread that the cheater’s other accounts were banned as well. You can see the video at the link below.
(Source: Guild Wars 2)
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