Blizzard will permanently ban any player found cheating in Overwatch

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Announced in a post about cheating on the Overwatch forums , the policy will be to slap a ban on any player "found to be cheating—or using hacks, bots, or third-party software that provides any sort of unfair advantage".The post goes onto inform players how they can report cheating, and guidelines for doing so.Blizzard has previous here - in 2012, it permanently banned cheaters in Diablo , and temporarily banned thousands of Hearthstone players found to be "botting" in Hearthstone in 2014.The Overwatch beta closed this week, garnering 9.7 million players during its run - the full game will be released on May 24.

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