http://dbd.game/killswitch
Banned for opinion, Steam community.
I'll try to keep it short:
My friend decided to try DBD again, and I'm still playing it to this day. We played our 10th match, and in the last 10th match, we encountered our fourth cheater. Yes, in 10 matches, we encountered four cheaters, not the sneaky ones, but the ones who created chaos in the match.And after the first two, we spent 20 minutes just waiting for the match to end (and it didn't, we left the match). With the next two cheaters in the match, we immediately left the match. In the end, we got a deserter for almost an hour. My friend said he wouldn't return to that dump, and I was burned this situation like cheaters in 4 matches of 10. And for leaving, we also got an hour-long ban that doesn't lift if the game isn't running.
I wrote about this incident in the Steam community and wrote that the game is almost 10 years old, but ordinary players still suffer from countless cheaters. And that the ban system for leaving is simply disgusting. We won't go out to play with a cheater for an hour (and there were four of them), we got an hour-long ban. This is the worst thing that's ever happened in online gaming. Saying it's unfair is like telling the truth, which the moderator wouldn't care about. I was permanently banned for this Steam post for the following reason:
"Posting publicly about negative gameplay behaviors, such as DCing, is not allowed."
I can't express an opinion about the game in this day and age?
Did this moderator of the DBD Steam forum just take away my freedom of speech or something? Like, no negative criticism of the game is accepted.
By the way, almost a month has passed since then, and I still don’t see a notification in the game about these cheaters being blocked.
If I get banned here for something that I raised in this thread, like the issue with cheaters, then the game will be dead for me.
I want to convey that the problem with cheaters needs to be solved somehow or the punishment for leaving needs to be softened, even though I know what this will lead to, but still, due to the number of cheaters that are in the game, the current punishment is strong only for ordinary players who just want to play the game normally.
I contacted support about the ban, and they said: "We were sad to read this, we feel sorry for you, but we don't handle unbans in the Steam community".
Comments
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Just stating that on this forum its against the rules to talk about bans so just for your knowledge.
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Nothing negative can be discussed, I understand you.
Then I'll wait for the ban.1 -
I get it's upsetting if what you said is true, but considering I've had one cheater in my past like 50 games I feel like this was a massive outlier.
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Haven't seen a cheater since the last 2v8 so yes its a quite a big out liner. Still most of the time when I see any claims of cheaters even if they provide "proof" the proof does not reveal cheating at all just misunderstanding what happened.
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Negative things can be discussed but how you do it is most likely the key even back in the Steam discussions.
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Yes, I play this game, and encountering a cheater in 4 out of 10 matches is pretty unlucky. But this says it's not impossible, and banning for criticizing this issue is somehow unfair.
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I sent everything to support.
4 videos for these 4 matches.
Like the fact that all the survivors are magnetically attached to each other at the start, with an animation as if they're being carried on someone's shoulder (creating the appearance of a human centipede) is clearly not cheating...0 -
Behavior does not inform if they ban people so you are never going to get any notification of it. Only thing they inform in game if some action was taken in other categories. I myself get usually notification if I reported someone exploiting something in the game.
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Before sending the report via email, I also made an in-game report.
In any case, a notification should have been sent stating that the player I reported had been banned (even if it wasn't my fault).Post edited by Leandralan on0 -
In-game report does not give notification of bans as I told you. They don't reveal that information for anyone.
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Well then, why did I previously receive notifications about bans for those I reported, for example, last year?
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I have never got a notification of cheating ban and I have reported several ones and I know some of them got banned because I checked later. Only times I get notification is when it was and exploit abuse report.
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If you report in-game and the report is processed you will generally get a notification saying they looked into the report and the appropriate actions were taken, it won't say whether these actions were a ban or just a closing of the report with no penalty however.
In fact I got one of those tonight, regarding a report I sent in yesterday morning, as I logged in.0 -
I should have received a notification then because cheating falls under the Exploit category.
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Reporting in-game is not enough, especially in the case of cheats it's imperative that you send in evidence in the form of a video clip. Because too often people accuse others of cheats when it was just a power or perk effect that did something they did not understand. You need concrete evidence of cheating to back up your report.
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I wrote in up above that I made a report using email too.
And all the evidence in the four videos is clear, as the cheaters themselves didn't hide their cheats.0 -
Dosnt help much tbh.. i stopped recording my videos, because its such a time waste to spend 20 minutes filling reports when you see cheaters. If they want to combat this, they must improve the report system. And add server side validation ect.
At this point i just go next… cheaters are not going away
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Its unfortunate but we don't have freedom of speech on these platforms. They are business forums and the owners decide what opinions are allowed and aren't allowed. There are other sites out there that let you say what you want. Not everyone wants the truth 😐
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Unfortunately, many moderators are just people who strictly follow a punishment guideline without questioning anything.
Also, it’s worth noting that a lot of moderators act as if expressing an opinion is some kind of federal crime…
When it would be enough to say something like: ‘Hey, I totally understand what you went through, but just so you know, it’s not ideal to talk about intentionally DCing—even if I understand why you did it.’
Just open a dialogue, basically show some humanity—something many moderators seem to lack, often too happy to have a bit of power.1
