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Elder Scrolls Online admits chat mod tools had ‘hiccups’ but denies it’s auto-banning RPers
Last week we reported on concerns raised by roleplayers about Elder Scrolls Online's use of "AI-powered proactive and reactive moderation methods" that were reportedly...
Final Fantasy XIV makes plan for opening home world transfers while banning RMT accounts
If you want to transfer your home world in Final Fantasy XIV right now... well, you can't. This is not for no reason, either....
WoW Classic players squabble over the Ahn’Qiraj Scarab Lord title amidst griefing and bans
Some player-crafted drama in WoW Classic appears to be brewing as guilds seek to complete a certain portion of the Scarab Lord quest chain....
Last Oasis declares that cheaters will not be tolerated within the game
If you decide to cheat in Last Oasis, the developers do not like you. No, not if you're just testing it out. No, not...
Fortnite bans certain actions in competitive play to avoid cheating
Good news, Fortnite players, you can be issued a ban for jumping during competitive play! Sort of, anyhow. See, Fortnite really doesn't want players signaling to...
Final Fantasy XIV suspends a streamer for shaming another player live on his stream
One of the rules about playing Final Fantasy XIV is that players are to a limited extent liable for what they do and say outside...
Fallout 76 asks banned players to submit a 500-word essay on why cheating is wrong
So we all know that Fallout 76 is a buggy mess by this point, which means that until it becomes not a buggy mess,...
CCP banned over 1800 EVE Online botters in January alone
If you've been paying any attention at all to EVE Online over the past few months, you know that the playerbase's anger over the...
Fortnite deals with cheat detection false positives, breaks half a million concurrent players
Cheating is bad in online games; we can all agree on that. Having anti-cheat software usually raises some questions back and forth, but the...
The Elder Scrolls Online recaps the big events of E3 while players get hit with surprise bans
If you're fond of The Elder Scrolls Online and have managed to tear yourself away from Morrowind for a few minutes, you probably already...
Legendary pokemon are teased for Pokemon Go as a new anti-cheat measure auto-bans bots
Remember how last summer was all about Pokémon Go? That's probably not going to happen again this year, but the team behind the game...
Black Desert GM punishes a player with a writing assignment
The hard part about being a GM has to be when you're dealing with a certain brand of player. You know the sort; they're...
Kakao permabans Black Desert shovel exploiters
This past weekend, Black Desert devs disabled some unusual items in the game: shovels and empty bottles. It turned out that exploiters had been using...
Pokémon Go lifts the ban on some third-party map app users
Pokémon Go has a word of warning for those players using third-party map applications: Stop or you could be banned. Niantic said that even...
Final Fantasy XIV bans more than 6,000 accounts for RMT
Making money in Final Fantasy XIV isn't necessarily easy. You have to play the free market quite a bit to acquire large amounts of...
World of Warcraft is introducing a silence penalty with the Legion prepatch
Hello, trade chat, my old friend; I'm turning you back on again. Because the team on World of Warcraft has addressed your issues at...
The Division subtracts 30,000 cheaters from its playerbase
Cheaters are not wanted in The Division. They're not wanted in any game, really, but Ubisoft is taking a harder line against cheaters by...
Overwatch racks up 7M players, bans 1500 of them
It's been a little over a week since Overwatch launched, and in that short time Blizzard's new team shooter has become a bonafide success...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Why wave-ban Guild Wars 2 cheaters?
Last week, our very own Bree Royce summed up a response given by ArenaNet's Chris Cleary to a self-confessed hacker on the game's subreddit...
Tree of Savior names and shames banned bots and goldsellers
We have a deeply personal question for you: Are you a bot? Because if so, you might be banned from Tree of Savior right...
