How are all these fake accounts getting through?

[Kermit the Sexy Frog]

Honestly, every game I play now has 3 to 4 brand new accounts on my team that just throw, harass, or smurf. They buy every ward so nobody can use them, steal creeps and camps, stay in jungle the entire game, then disconnect when we lose. What the ♥♥♥♥ is Valve doing? This game is getting more and more unplayable. Is there no system in place to autoban these accounts or do we have to keep reporting them for Valve?

[°Dofus]

Originally posted by Kermit the Sexy Frog:

Honestly, every game I play now has 3 to 4 brand new accounts on my team that just throw, harass, or smurf. They buy every ward so nobody can use them, steal creeps and camps, stay in jungle the entire game, then disconnect when we lose. What the ♥♥♥♥ is Valve doing? This game is getting more and more unplayable. Is there no system in place to autoban these accounts or do we have to keep reporting them for Valve?

i guess its personal harassment or some kind of gangstalking.do you get followed by people in hoodies often?

[S]

A lot of smurfs just got banned. Now they're rage creating accounts to mess with people and trying to hurt valve.

[Absche]

Wrong policy. But the community wants it that way.

[Kermit the Sexy Frog]

Originally posted by ----:

A lot of smurfs just got banned. Now they're rage creating accounts to mess with people and trying to hurt valve.

Is it really that easy to make an account?

[﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽]

Originally posted by Kermit the Sexy Frog:

Originally posted by ----:

A lot of smurfs just got banned. Now they're rage creating accounts to mess with people and trying to hurt valve.

Is it really that easy to make an account?

Yes if you're competent with PC
It takes 1 hr to half the day depending on your pc competency skill to change hardware ID and IP how can* valve dota 2 devs even tackle this
Some griefers and smurfs are high skill with entire passthroughs and emulation that devs will never ever even notice it and tbh dota 2 devs deserve it since they like to be ass

The ironic part is that the devs who can tackle this security issue/problem will never work at valve and actually dislike valve security and this dota 2 game that's how cheaters are in different league meta than dota 2 devs its completely dota 2 devs fault

[Kermit the Sexy Frog]

Originally posted by ﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽:

Originally posted by Kermit the Sexy Frog:

Is it really that easy to make an account?

Yes if you're competent with PC
It takes 1 hr to half the day depending on your pc competency skill to change hardware ID and IP how're valve dota 2 devs can even tackle this
Some griefers and smurfs are high skill with entire passthroughs and emulation that devs will never ever even notice it and tbh dota 2 devs deserve it since they like to be ass

True, I didn't think about virtual machines, VPN's, and false ID's. Still, this is a free to play game. You would think Valve would put a cooldown on new accounts if they wanted to play a free to play. Can't play CS, Dota, TF, etc. for 'X' amount of days/weeks/months due to account age. Then there's account farms to think of where they make the account and let it sit and age to bypass the requirements then someone buys it and *whammy*! Smurf/troll gets a new account....until they get reported and banned. It happened once, it's gonna happen again.

Edit: But then again, I guess they'll need actual activity on the account before either half of 'X' amount of time expires for them to play said free-to-play games. That or they need an actual credit card linked to the account to buy games. Then that card gets banned. Just thoughts on how to make it more difficult for these people. It's all about energy/time vs. necessity.

[﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽]

Originally posted by Kermit the Sexy Frog:

Originally posted by ﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽﷽:

Yes if you're competent with PC
It takes 1 hr to half the day depending on your pc competency skill to change hardware ID and IP how're valve dota 2 devs can even tackle this
Some griefers and smurfs are high skill with entire passthroughs and emulation that devs will never ever even notice it and tbh dota 2 devs deserve it since they like to be ass

True, I didn't think about virtual machines, VPN's, and false ID's. Still, this is a free to play game. You would think Valve would put a cooldown on new accounts if they wanted to play a free to play. Can't play CS, Dota, TF, etc. for 'X' amount of days/weeks/months due to account age. Then there's account farms to think of where they make the account and let it sit and age to bypass the requirements then someone buys it and *whammy*! Smurf/troll gets a new account....until they get reported and banned. It happened once, it's gonna happen again.

You realise that many competent players and people made this suggestion in old dota 2.dev forum a decade ago and several great advice idea implementations its just that dota 2 devs refused to implement this til this day

The infamous cheating ban wave of 30k banned cheaters were nothing burger in nature because total playercount in all metrics from day/week/month didn't even go negative and by that time dota 2 devs finally fixed the camera memory glitch exploits cheaters were using to cheat but that's a decade old cheat compared to current modern cheats using basic AI bots truly different league and skill

Valve dota 2 devs dug this on their own imo
I can see why there's entire dedicated hacking groups against valve now it makes more sense because of how they treat players who speak truth

Another future issue of their anti cheat with player detection behaviour with machine learning(AI) currently being developed is that cheaters already know this and they're ultra prepared against valve's meme learning bs cuz you can just fake human interactivity behaviour with chaotic time delays so no chance really

[AerSilver ♞]

Originally posted by ----:

A lot of smurfs just got banned. Now they're rage creating accounts to mess with people and trying to hurt valve.

They don't care about Valve,they care about themselves and their egos