Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often 'correct negative behaviour immediately' (www.pcgamer.com)

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Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often 'correct negative behaviour immediately'::Overwatch 2 has not been having a good time of it in 2023. May brought the unwelcome news that Blizzard's original plans for the game's post-launch support were being changed, mainly the pro

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[-] nunchuk@lemmy.bigsecretwebsite.net 22 points 1 year ago

According to steam charts, it averages about 26,000 players per day on steam, not that many but I imagine across all platforms it probably has 250,000 players that play semi regularly. Granted by those assumptions they just banned the whole player base

[-] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 13 points 1 year ago

But they definitely got all the cheaters :p

[-] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

cant have cheaters if you dont have any players

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