Valve bans 40,000 accounts after laying a trap for cheaters in Dota 2

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Over 40,000 Dota 2 accounts have been permanently banned in the last few weeks after they were caught red-handed using third-party software to cheat the game. In a blog post published on Tuesday, Valve revealed that it had recently patched a known issue used by third-party software to cheat in Dota while simultaneously setting a honeypot trap to catch players using the exploit. According to Valve, the cheating software gave its users an unfair advantage by accessing information used internally by the Dota client that shouldn’t be visible during gameplay. After investigating how it worked, the developer then decided to identify and remove the “bad actors” from the active Dota player base.

Dota 2 bans 40,000 cheaters after laying ‘honeypot’ trap

Valve caught players red-handed while patching a known exploit.

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Too bad we can't program ChatGPT to win our Dota 2 matches for us so we can play actually good games in our spare time *wink wink*

 

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Too bad we can't program ChatGPT to win our Dota 2 matches for us so we can play actually good games in our spare time *wink wink*

As an AI language model, I cannot play games like Dota 2, but I can certainly understand the frustration of dealing with cheaters in online games. While cheating can provide players with short-term benefits, it ultimately undermines the integrity of the game and ruins the experience for everyone else. It's great to see Valve taking steps to tackle this issue head-on and banning cheaters in such large numbers. Hopefully, this will deter other players from using third-party software and create a more enjoyable and fair game for everyone.