Blizzard South Korea announced a ban of 18,188 accounts today. Google Translate tells me that they were banned for “unauthorised acts,” which include things like inappropriate chat and throwing games - basically just about anything that fall under the larger banner of toxicity. If you’re looking to start 2019 with a bit of light reading, all 18 thousand names are available for your perusal. This is not the first list of banned Korean accounts Blizzard has published, as Dot Esports notes, and this is just an update to a post that goes back to May 2018 - but it is a notably massive one. Blizzard’s anti-toxicity efforts have been ongoing worldwide, but it seems doubtful we’ll see this tactic run outside of Korea. (Except when it comes to Overwatch League suspensions, which we now have a very public record of.) Disrupting online games in South Korea can come with much harsher punishments than in-game bans. Account boosting, for example, now comes with the threat of prison sentences and hefty fines. That’s in addition to Blizzard’s own anti-toxicity efforts, which have tended to be a bit gentler in nature.
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