Today, it was announced that the new model of Xbox, which appeared in the past months, was delayed due to “costing more than expected”. In addition, the long-running Call of Duty-PlayStation fight was finally over in the past days.
Today, Microsoft officials announced that they permanently banned more than 7 million accounts in total in 2022. Moreover, the vast majority of these accounts are accounts plugged into Xbox’s own security systems.
Sometimes just “your name” is enough to get you banned.
According to data released by Microsoft, the company permanently banned 7.21 million Xbox Live accounts from January to June 2022. However, because only 2.53 million of these accounts were reported, there were accounts that were banned. Other accounts were bad reputation of usernames, inappropriate usernames, accounts plugged into anti-cheat software, and accounts that violated Xbox’s rules and got stuck in systems. At this point, Microsoft announced that some usernames are popular on the internet and that users who stated that they cheated on different forums and whose account was associated with their Xbox account in the forum were banned even if they did not really cheat.
With this move, Microsoft aims to prevent potential cheating and toxic behavior. This “proactive ban” system, which has been in use since 2020, has largely prevented verbal and written harassment and cheating in the Xbox community from its very first year. In addition, since this system is supported by machine learning, it detects more users every year. While the sum of all Xbox accounts banned in 2021 was 6.72 million, this figure has already exceeded 7 million in the first 6 months of 2022.
According to the statement made by Xbox, most of the proactive accounts banned are accounts that have been blocked due to written and verbal sexual harassment, pirated games and cheating, fraud, and game purchases with stolen credit cards. Even if users do not complain, Xbox officials do not remain silent against these accounts, removing them from the community and carefully following new accounts to be opened with the same device or same IP address. In this way, it is aimed to protect the peace of the community.
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