DOTA 2 fans finally got some respite after Valve confirmed the permanent banning of more than 40,000 accounts due to their association with exploits in the game.
The bans are just the latest part of Valve's long-overdue cleanup effort to rid DOTA 2 of several ongoing backend issues, saying: Today, we permanently banned over 40,000 accounts that were using third-party software to cheat in Dota over the last few weeks. This software was able to access information used internally by the Dota client that wasn't visible during normal gameplay, giving the cheater an unfair advantage. While fixing the underlying issues that made these cheats possible was a priority, we have also decided to remove these bad actors from the active Dota playerbase. Basically, what Valve did was set a trap that isolated accounts using third-party cheat software. Valve used the information it gathered to ban with "extremely high confidence that every ban was well-deserved" any account that triggered the alarms.
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