Defense Matrix – Driving Positivity in Overwatch
We’re back with another update to Defense Matrix, our ongoing initiative to bring a fair and friendly experience to Overwatch 2. This season, we’d like to share our current initiatives, our future goals, and how we can use your help to combat cheating and disruptive behavior in-game.
Since our last update, we've been taking time to better define our goals to deliver on our promise to provide the most fun and fair experience in Overwatch 2 as possible. Part of this goal is to establish guiding principles that help us make those decisions, and we also want to encourage you to adopt those principles when you play Overwatch 2!
Our first guiding principle, “Fair is fun,” comes from our belief that cheating is never okay in Overwatch 2. Playing with cheaters is frustrating, robbing everyone of a fun and fair match. Our team will never stop working to identify and protect against cheats, and we’d like to share how you can help!
Reporting is one of the most effective ways of helping us find players who cheat. When you submit a report, you’re shining a spotlight on an issue that could otherwise go undetected. We’re constantly working to find and block new hacks and cheats from Overwatch 2, and reporting helps us to faster track down and action players who cheat.
It’s our responsibility to address players that use unauthorized hacks or hardware that provide an unfair advantage in-game. Since the launch of Overwatch 2, we've penalized over 100,000 accounts worldwide that were found to be using a variety of cheats, including “aimbots” and “wallhacks”—in most cases, these accounts have been permanently banned.
These efforts to stop hacks also include regularly issued ban waves against cheaters, often banning up to 5,000 accounts every
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