Valve gave thousands of Dota 2 cheaters a Christmas gift

Valve has long known that cheaters are one of the main problems in Dota 2. This is not to say that the company does not consistently fight them. However, before Christmas, the company again managed to close thousands of problematic accounts, which it presented in its latest blog post as follows: “if you’re angry, we have great news. Not for you, for everyone else. We have very bad news for you. As you may recall, in September we deployed the ban hammer and permanently banned 90,000 Smurf accounts. However, we did not stop there and continued to monitor the behavior of players, both through manual and automatic analysis. Thanks to this, over the past few weeks we have unleashed an even more aggressive wave of bans, which, for example, drowned tens of thousands of Smurfs just today.“

So it looks like this is just Valve’s first step against the Smurfs and other problematic elements of their work. According to the blog, some bugs have also been fixed, which you can read more about here. It’s good that Valve is so interested in Dota 2.