More than 150,000 accounts have just been “exiled” by Riot, a cause that has stunned the gaming community

Riot banned more than 150 thousand accounts during winter break

That's right, readers did not read wrong because this is the data that Riot just posted a few hours ago. Accordingly, Phillip Koskinas – head of the anti-cheat analysis team at Riot Games, excitedly shared on his personal X page that during the past winter break, there were more than 150,000 fraudulent accounts that Riot “discarded”. .

Phillip Koskinas affirmed that there is almost no holiday time for Riot employees, because at this time, many hackers/cheats have appeared and seriously ruined the community experience. It's worth mentioning that the above 150 thousand accounts are only from the game VALORANT alone. Through the Vanguard anti-cheat system, Riot scans more than 5,000 violating accounts every day on average. At its peak on January 11 and 13, there were nearly 12 thousand cases that had to receive bans.

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As can be seen in the chart, Phillip Koskinas and Riot staff banned violating accounts based on screening by 6 different methods. In particular, most of the bans are applied to 2 cases of Cheating and Hardware. These are also the two most common groups of violators, directly detected as fraud or intentional repeat violations based on hardware traces.

However, the number 150 thousand, although large, is a significant decrease compared to the initial time of the game. Previously, Riot representative – Jose “the3” Chavez shared that in the 4 years since Vanguard released on VALORANT, they have banned up to 3.6 million fraudulent accounts – a terrible number, showing instability. of this game if left to “generate and destroy itself”.

Currently, VALORANT has an average of 14 million active players per month. With the number of violating accounts at 1% (150 thousand), gamers can completely feel secure to experience this blockbuster without having to worry.