Xbox proactively suspended up to 4.8m user accounts in the first half of 2022
Microsoft has revealed that it proactively suspended up to 4.78 million Xbox user accounts during the first six months of 2022.
The data was included in the company’s inaugural ‘Xbox Transparency Report’, which was published on Monday to highlight steps the platform holder is taking to moderate content to create a safer environment for players.
According to the Microsoft, it took a total of 7.126 million enforcement actions between January 1 and June 30 this year.
Account-only suspensions accounted for 4.5 million (63%) of all enforcements, incidents of content removal totalled 196,000 (3%), and incidents of both account suspension and content removal were 2.43 million (34%).
In terms of enforcement by policy area, Microsoft said cheating/inauthentic accounts were responsible for 4.33 million enforcements, ahead of adult sexual content (199,000), fraud (87,000), harassment or bullying (54,000), profanity (46,000), phishing (26,000) and ‘other’ (23,000), a category which includes “smaller volume areas such as piracy, account tampering, real world concerns, drugs, vulgar content, hate speech, spam, advertising, or solicitation”.
Microsoft said approximately two thirds of the enforcements issued in the first half of 2022 were the result of proactive detection. A third of enforcements were made in reaction to player reports, of which Microsoft received 33.08 million during the six-month period.
Negative communications by other players were behind 46% of user reports, ahead of complaints about player conduct (43%) and user generated content (11%).
Microsoft said the total number of player reports in the first half of the year was down significantly, from 41.83 million in the second half of 2021 and 52.05 million in the first half of
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