NetEase revealed that many of the players who were permanently banned remained in the lowest tier, Bronze.

The developer of Marvel Rivals, NetEase, has clearly stated its position regarding cheating in the popular shooter game. In a blog post, the company dispelled rumors about the game’s anti-cheat software and named and publicly shamed hundreds of players caught using and distributing cheats. All of them received permanent bans from the game. Following the latest weekend update, NetEase discovered that some players had begun promoting and using unauthorized third-party modifications – or, in layman’s terms, “cheats.” The team launched an investigation and found hundreds of accounts that violated the studio’s primary guideline of maintaining a fair and honest gaming environment.

After tracking down the accounts involved in cheating, NetEase permanently banned them and made it clear that any account caught using cheats, illegal third-party software, or client manipulation will also be permanently banned in the future. After emphasizing that players must not cheat in Marvel Rivals, NetEase put an end to rumors that the game’s anti-cheat system could be disabled using launch parameters. According to the company, these rumors are completely false. The anti-cheat system launches simultaneously with the game client and cannot be disabled independently. The parameter in question merely hides the pop-up window; it does not disable the anti-cheat software.

It’s amusing that players thought they were disabling the anti-cheat software by changing the launch settings when they were actually just blocking a pop-up window. Even funnier, the blog post includes a massive list of permanently banned accounts and their ranks. Most usernames were censored to prevent doxxing. The largest group of banned players consists of Bronze-ranked players. This means that, even with the use of cheats, they couldn’t climb out of the game’s lowest rank. Only three banned players reached the game’s highest rank, “One Above All.” The next largest group consisted of Grandmaster and Diamond players, with 65 players in each group. There were 184 banned Bronze players on the list.

It is unclear how long these players had been playing before they were banned. It is possible that they all simply created new accounts to avoid having their main accounts banned.

Source: WCCFTech, NetEase