Ubisoft has sanctioned nearly 19,000 accounts for using an unspecified exploit, Rainbow Six Siege developer revealed rather cryptically on Twitter earlier today.
“We recently identified accounts using a fraudulent exploit in our titles,” the Ubisoft Support Twitter account wrote. “Ubisoft has a zero-tolerance policy for fraudulent practices under our Code of Conduct. As a result, we will apply account-level sanctions to the nearly 19,000 accounts involved.”
my city reached out for clarification on which titles are affected by the exploit, but did not receive a response in time for publication. However, Twitter support also did not respond to users’ requests for more details Rainbow Six players are speculating that their game has been subject to mysterious “deceptive practices” in the form of “cheating”.
“Duplicating” is a fun way of referring to duplicate issues Rainbow Six players have benefited from for at least eight years—recent version includes connecting and disconnecting Xbox accounts to keep multiple iterations of the same skin. When a version of the exploit it’s falling, another pops upoften gets people copies of expensive elite skins for free.
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It’s not the most blatant scam, I don’t think so, but people have been banned for using it for as long as it’s been around, and it’s possible that Ubisoft have finally decided to get tough in their crackdown. It is also possible and also affects Rainbow SixUbisoft developers said earlier this week that this would seriously discourage input spoofing (using adapter to disguise your mouse and keyboard as an imprecise controller) with an initiative they cutely call “Mousetrap”.
“We wanted to build our own system that sniffs out players with the mouse and keyboard on the console so we can build a better picture of who’s using those devices,” said head of gameplay programming Jan Stahlhacke during Rainbow Six‘c Year 8 Season 1 reveal panel. “We’ve been very quiet about it, but it’s actually been running in the background in the shadows for a few seasons. We collected data and analyzed the results and now we have a much better picture.”
So Ubisoft’s proud 19,000 sanctions may be the ripe fruit of that labor. But without any confirmation from Ubisoft itself, there’s no way to know. Sanctions may not even include Rainbow Six at all – perhaps 19,000 players have been marked as liking the company’s version onewhich was xbox crash for past two yearstoo much.