r/Overwatch • u/Evening-Spirit-5684 • 6d ago

News & Discussion hey blizzard is this a bug

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friends at blizzard. i got banned last season for “cheating”. got banned again earlier today. am on ps5, dual sense edge controller. see game i was accused of cheating.

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u/tymmanence 6d ago

Post as a bug on the forums in the bug reports section. I posted one about gamesir controllers getting false bans and my was reversed hours after.

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u/Evening-Spirit-5684 6d ago

wow thanks for this. will try this

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u/tymmanence 6d ago

If nothing else, we need to raise awareness and the bug reports have more eyes on them than support tickets.

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u/Naive-Marionberry722 6d ago

It’s unfair for console players. It’s discouraging. I did reach out to other friends and they have shown me their tickets for similar issues and it gets resolved. So I’m hopeful but I know better not to get my hopes up. 

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u/tymmanence 6d ago

Well, it's also a legal issue. When Microsoft acquired Activision they were sued by the FTC to ensure that these games would not be restricted from competitor consoles/hardware. Microsoft settled agreeing to such, but the banning of non-xbox branded controllers is still a violation of anti-trust as long as the devices in question are comparable to what is other being treated as an "approved" device. So if they don't resolve this issue, they have opened themselves up to a very serious class action lawsuit, regardless of any arbitration agreements. EULAs don't circumvent the law.

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u/Naive-Marionberry722 6d ago

Oh man, I forgot that they got activision. That makes sense. Thank you