The official Dust 2 account on Twitter announced today where developers have banned more than 40,000 players from "harassing the game," but it's still unclear what that means. Kotaku reached Valve with the additional context of what led to this massive wave of ban and still to be heard in the background.
Dust 2, as many games online, is open to potential exploitation of its listed rating systems. These include complex behavioral activities with white words such as "skiing" and "enlargement," both of which still carry hot topic issues internally Dust 2
community because of the ways they can throw the remainder of online gaming into a heap. Smurfed accounts are new accounts that are opened by active players that can be compared to inexperienced players and, to a lesser degree, gain easy points. Promotion means the process by which an account is promoted to a higher level by a third party, such as when a player hires another person to play for them. Since they are listed Dust 2
Games are only accessible after spending 100 hours playing online, one can see why anyone would want to take the easy way out by just buying a burned-out account or paying a third party to increase their power.
This is not the first time that Valve has fallen into these tricks on the Dust 2
. Back in January 2019, he was an engineer 17,000 accounts have been blocked who were accused of abusing the game, in September, issued a 19-year ban of many different spreads, including hits and magnifications. A developer blog posted the same month Dust The development team was spending a lot of time finding and retrieving accounts that violated the game plan in these ways.
In addition to today's blockade, Valve also released update that it says it should make the smurf recovery system look more attractive and ensure that it "targets more" smurf accounts.