Since Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service is expanding and the firm is trying to entice more gamers to the Xbox platform, it has become increasingly important to them that those gamers have a safe and enjoyable online gaming environment free from harassment and cheating.
Microsoft has released a transparency report for Xbox that provides insight into the company’s approach to online service filtering over the first half of 2022. Xbox removed over 4.33 million accounts for “cheating” or “inauthenticity.” It’s a massive boost compared to last year.
Microsoft states that fake accounts are instantly banned 99.99% of the time “as soon as they’re created.” Over 4.3 million accounts were flagged as “not real” according to the scanning and filtering technology. These are primarily automated or bot-created accounts, which “produce unequal competing situations and possibly impact the overall gaming experience.”
In addition to being banned for cheating or making fake accounts, they also banned some users for breaking the rules about sexual content, fraud, bullying, and other things. These types of bans comprised a tiny percentage of the total.
