Valve has announced a significant milestone in the battle against cheating in Dota 2. According to the development team, over 40,000 accounts were permanently banned on February 22, 2023, for using third-party software to gain an unfair advantage in recent weeks.
To address this issue, a comprehensive scheme was created, and a special update was released. Valve stated:
We released a patch as soon as we understood the method these cheats were using,” Valve said. “This patch created a honeypot: a section of data inside the game client that would never be read during normal gameplay, but that could be read by these exploits.” Valve claims that all 40,000 of the now-banned accounts had accessed this hidden section of data and that it had “extremely high confidence that every ban was well-deserved.
Valve emphasized that they specifically made the blocked accounts as an example to make their position clear:
If you are running any application that reads data from the Dota client as you’re playing games, your account can be permanently banned from playing Dota. This includes professional players, who will be banned from all Valve competitive events.
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