Their time has come; Dota 2 permanently bans 40,000 cheaters

Valve banned more than 40,000 cheaters of Dota 2 in the last few weeks. Being one of the most popular free multiplayer games on To smokeDota 2 welcomes a large number of players every day.

Moreover, the statistics mean that there are also a large number of cheaters joining the fray, no matter how good the anti-cheat solutions are.

Fighting cheaters and dealing with them has always been an important aspect of Valve’s work on Dota 2, which has now entered the tenth year of its long life cycle.

Ban waves aren’t necessarily rare, but it looks like the game just suffered one of its biggest purges of cheaters, with tens of thousands of accounts permanently deleted.

As one of the best MOBAs for newcomers to the genre, Dota 2 is also particularly successful for dishonest players looking to score easy wins through the use of cheats. However, according to the latest announcement from Valve, in the future normal gamers will face 40,000 less cheaters.

In the past two weeks, Valve managed to detect specific third-party cheats early on. After discovering the details, Valve released a honeypot code snippet that only cheating users could access, which led to an extremely high level of certainty in this round of cheat detection.

Paul A.

I have been working as a journalist for Debate Media since 2020, I use the platform to communicate my interest in video games, cinema and technology, seeking to convey information in a clear and playful way. I have a particular taste for shooters, not to mention indie games and anything with a motor and four wheels (or two).

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