Cheaters in Tom Clancy’s The Division existed since the game’s beta phase and until around a month ago, it was one of the major issues the game, developers and especially players had to deal with. However, the developers were thankfully able to sort that problem out by implementing certain protective and detection measures to declare war on cheaters.
After their first insight of how they want to improve the players’ experience and a special podcast, which shared some technical information of the game’s architecture, 2 ban waves went out – a very successful first strike against cheaters.
Since then, a total of over 30,000 accounts were punished for their actions, including 3,800 permanent bans. These are not just numbers, the experience in the Dark Zone significantly improved and as far as we could say as players, we might have seen 1 cheater since then, but nothing compared to the state the game had before this.
Part of Ubisoft’s punishment policy against cheaters was a 14 days suspension on first offense and a permanent ban for cheating again. A lot of players complained about this, asked for a permanent ban once the anti-cheat detection hits and right after another game publisher has announced permanent bans for cheaters in their game, Ubisoft decided to change its policy too, meaning permanent bans on first offense now when players are trying to cheat, no matter where (PvE and PvP).
In addition, Ubisoft wants to be more transparent by informing the community when new ban waves are taking place. Cheaters are gladly not a big problem anymore!
Source: Official Website
