{"id":93701,"date":"2016-06-03T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T07:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93701"},"modified":"2016-06-03T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T07:16:10","slug":"blizzard-is-permanently-banning-overwatch-cheaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93701-blizzard-is-permanently-banning-overwatch-cheaters","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard is permanently banning Overwatch cheaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blizzard has maintained its firm anti-cheating stance against\u00a0Overwatch hackers, and is taking strong action against all types of cheating.<\/p>\n

The company has recently issued a massive wave of bans against Overwatch cheaters, permanently banning a total of 1,572 players<\/strong> from the game.<\/p>\n

PC Gamer<\/a><\/strong> rounded up a number of posts by the banned players, in which the cheaters express their anger at being permanently banned from the game.<\/p>\n

\"Overwatch<\/a><\/p>\n

Blizzard has reportedly also been issuing a series of bans to cheaters who attempt to buy the game again, with one player buying the game four times<\/strong> before admitting defeat.<\/p>\n

Although Blizzard’s permanent bans and strong anti-cheating action are admirable, Overwatch players should be wary of false positives which may get them permanently banned from the game.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, most reports confirm that the majority of banned users are actual cheaters.<\/p>\n

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What do you think about Blizzard’s strong anti-cheating stance for Overwatch? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Blizzard has been wielding the banhammer with a heavy hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":88159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,1099,665,1952,6532,10096],"class_list":["post-93701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-banned","tag-blizzard","tag-cheaters","tag-hackers","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}