Ubisoft Drops the Banhammer on For Honor AFK Farmers

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Ubisoft Drops the Banhammer on For Honor AFK Farmers

//cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/1376/1376860.jpgUbisoft has promised to ban AFK farmers in For Honor, and yesterday it announced that 1,500 players have been banned, with 4,00 more receiving warnings.

If you've played any Ubisoft warned [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/117004-For-Honor-Review] that it would be taking action against players found to be employing any of these methods. Yesterday, it announced the first wave of bans and warnings.

Around 1,500 players were hit with three-day bans, and an additional 4,000 or so new AFK farmers were detected and sent warnings. Ubisoft posted the announcement in the For Honor subreddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/forhonor/comments/5z5ooc/actions_taken_against_afk_farmers/]. If you've been carrying on with some AFK farming (for shame!) and you want to know if you're affected, Ubi said that "In all cases, impacted players will receive an official email detailing their sanction and the reason behind it."

Ubisoft also pointed out in the post that, "Using a cheat engine to exploit AFK farming is against our Code of Conduct, and these impacted players may get a permaban for cheating."

For Honor released on Valentine's Day, and its upcoming DLC heroes have already leaked [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/169715-For-Honor-Leaked-DLC-Heroes].

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[King_Julian]

ahhh the banhammer......the only hammer mightier than thors!


how long are said bans for i wonder? doubt its very long...

 

[RJ 17]

People still play this? I thought the peer-to-peer server bullshit - and all the connection issues associated with it - along with the pay-2-win bullshit had chased most of the people off.

 

[Solkard]

So the punishment for people not playing the game, is to not let them play the game for 3 days?

 

[Zydrate]

So the punishment for people not playing the game, is to not let them play the game for 3 days?

Yes. I've been a part of PvP games where people just stand there and it hurts the team severely.

 

[Solkard]

So the punishment for people not playing the game, is to not let them play the game for 3 days?

Yes. I've been a part of PvP games where people just stand there and it hurts the team severely.

Yeah, but wouldn't it be more productive to auto-kick or let people vote-kick people who were flagged as afk?

 

[Zydrate]

So the punishment for people not playing the game, is to not let them play the game for 3 days?

Yes. I've been a part of PvP games where people just stand there and it hurts the team severely.

Yeah, but wouldn't it be more productive to auto-kick or let people vote-kick people who were flagged as afk?

A vote-to-kick would be lovely, yes. Also prone to abuse, kicking people who elitists perceive as "scrub", only to waste a minute of the game while matchmaking finds someone else and potentially worse.
Wouldn't be a problem for me though. I play almost exclusively against AI :|

 

[Solkard]

So the punishment for people not playing the game, is to not let them play the game for 3 days?

Yes. I've been a part of PvP games where people just stand there and it hurts the team severely.

Yeah, but wouldn't it be more productive to auto-kick or let people vote-kick people who were flagged as afk?

A vote-to-kick would be lovely, yes. Also prone to abuse, kicking people who elitists perceive as "scrub", only to waste a minute of the game while matchmaking finds someone else and potentially worse.
Wouldn't be a problem for me though. I play almost exclusively against AI :|

That's why I mentioned "people who were flagged as afk". They seem to be able to identify people who are afk to ban/warn them, so only allow people who have been detected to be afk to be vote kicked.

 

[TrulyBritish]

Sorry, can someone give me context into how these people are farming XP and what this achieves (never played this game).
I thought this was basically some kind of multi person fighting game?

 

[FoolKiller]

I disagree with banning rubber banding the control sticks. If you make your game so fucking grindy and boring that using rubber bands on the controller is useful then so be it.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

I disagree with banning rubber banding the control sticks. If you make your game so fucking grindy and boring that using rubber bands on the controller is useful then so be it.

^

Honestly though, I blame the population in the end for buying these games so blindly.

 

[Avnger]

I disagree with banning rubber banding the control sticks. If you make your game so fucking grindy and boring that using rubber bands on the controller is useful then so be it.

You get rewards for finishing a match, and the "rubber bands" help to avoid being AFK kicked. The rubber bands don't allow any type of actual playing besides running in circles. Since when do rewards for finishing a match automatically make a game "grindy and boring?" Multiplayer games have been doing this for decades.

I have no problem with the bans. They're even giving first-timers a warning. It's a pretty simple concept that when you purposely harm the multiplayer game environment (sticking people with an AFK teammate), you deserve whatever the devs toss at you.

 

[ecoho]

oh another ubisoft game that people have to exploit a system to get to the good part and ubisoft is banning people again for it. this will end the same way the division did, with a low player base that's not worth trying to get into.