Blizzard South Korea announced a ban of 18, 188 accounts today. Google Translate tells me that they were banned for “unauthorised acts, ” which include things like inappropriate chat and throwing games – basically just about anything that fall under the larger banner of toxicity. If you’re looking to start 2019 with a bit of light reading, all 18, 000 names are available for your perusal.
This is not the first list of banned Korean accounts Blizzard has published, as Dot Esports notes, and this is just an update to a post that goes back to May 2018 – but it is a notably massive one. Blizzard’s anti-toxicity efforts have been ongoing worldwide, but it seems doubtful we’ll see this tactic run outside of Korea. (Except when it comes to Overwatch League suspensions, which we now have a very public record of.)
Disrupting online games in South Korea can come with much harsher punishments than in-game bans. Account boosting, for example, now comes with the threat of prison sentences and hefty fines. That’s in addition to Blizzard’s own anti-toxicity efforts, which have tended to be a bit gentler in nature.
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Blizzard cites endorsements in particular as bringing downtoxic chat by massive percentages. In the month following the system’s implementation, daily abusive chat was down 28.8% in the Americas and 21.6% in Korea.
Our favourite story about all this is the time a toxic player changed his ways after Blizzard explained his ban. It might be too much to hope that 18, 188 more will follow in those footsteps, but it’s a new year – we can dream big.
Dustin Bailey Dustin's all about retro games and adventure games, as well as being a Final Fantasy XIV devotee. His proudest accomplishment at is carving out a niche for Truck Simulator coverage. A former Senior News Writer, you can now find him at GamesRadar.On June 18, Blizzard published the names of over 1600 Overwatch accounts that had been banned for account sharing after Season 17 in one of the biggest crackdowns on cheating so far this year.
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Boosting (where someone else plays on your account to boost SR) and account sharing are illegal in South Korea and could actually land you jail – which might be why Blizzard takes such a hard line against cheaters there.
South Korea probably produces more Overwatch players per capita than any other nation on Earth and the Overwatch esports are filled with Korean players
Blizzard likes to name and shame the accounts they ban in Korea, and on August 18 they posted a list of over 1600 users that had been banned for either account sharing or boosting.
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According to Overwatch insider Naeri, who posted the news on Twitter, the company suspended a total of 1, 618 accounts for account sharing during Competitive season 17.
A representative from Blizzard tagged every account that was banned in Season 17 in the post on the official Korean Overwatch forum, just like they’ve done for mass-bans in the past.
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The representative wrote that “Blizzard Entertainment is committed to creating a fair and positive game environment for our players, ” before listing the usernames of banned accounts and the reason for the ban.
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Blizzard’s End User License agreement states that players “cannot share the Account or the Login Information with anyone, ” and notes that players are fully responsible for any activity that breaks the rules on their accounts.
It’s not clear if all of the suspensions are permanent though, as Blizzard only specified which accounts were banned and for what reason, they didn’t list the punishment in the post.
오버워치 경쟁전 대리 행위 계정 제재 안내 8월 20일, 오버워치 경쟁전 시즌17 대리 행위(계정 공유) 의한 1618명의 계정이 제재 되었음을 알려드립니다. August 20, Overwatch competition season 17 Korean servers 1618 players were suspended for 'account sharing' :no_entry_sign:https://t.co/1EIR6LJNZ9 pic.twitter.com/zqXKZiUc2J — Naeri x 나에리 (@OverwatchNaeri) August 20, 2019
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Blizzard has been known to hand out bans that were non-permanent or proportional to the extent of the violation in the past, so a lot of these accounts could be back after a while.
Banning 1, 618 accounts may seem like overkill, until we remember that Blizzard banned over 22, 000 South Korean Overwatch accounts in January of 2018 for cheating, boosting, account sharing and more, smaller infractions
So, any players that are considering using boosting, account sharing, or any other kind of cheating to get ahead on Korean servers might want to think twice before they end up on the list of shame next season.
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