Dota 2's Frostivus bans 65,500 smurf accounts and cheaters
, by Quentin
With Frostivus coming to Dota 2, players can enjoy a special event packed with gifts and rewards. That said, this has resulted in a new wave of in-game bans.
Indeed, the Dota 2 teams announced the permanent deletion of 65,594 smurfs accounts as well as disruptors, cheaters and other malicious players.
This is the funny announcement issued by the devs:
"King Kringle broke his ban hammer off in some well-deserving asses last year. He's spent the year constantly reforging and testing it on various smurfs and in-game baddies, and now he's ready to rechristen it with the blood of the naughty."
"While we usually do most of our bans and penalties behind the scenes, it's become something of a Frostivus tradition for us to pull back the curtain a little bit and talk about this ongoing work. And so: This holiday season, we hope you look forward to some cleaner, friendlier, fairer games, free of the 65,594 smurf accounts we've taken action against this week."
"Besides the smurfs, we've also dropped the hammer on a significant number of high-MMR griefers, players who try to have fun at the expense of others, exploiting bugs, trading wins, and otherwise undermining the competitive challenge that is at the heart of every game of Dota."
"As always, we'd like to thank everyone that submitted a report over the year. All that data helps us find the players that are making games of Dota worse and take action. Dota is a better game because of you."
Source: dota2.com