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>Previously, we would warn and restrict those users as well as sending them to the PC Pool. This was mostly actioned at Competitive levels above Diamond. In Season 18, we’re cracking down further: continuing to use unapproved peripherals and devices in the Controller Pool will result in a full game account ban regardless of the player’s rank or mode.

Do these idiots not understand that the adapter they're using are full-on cheat devices? You can look up clips of people using the cronus zen in Ovewatch 2 to gain what is essentially a lite-aimbot. These are not misguided people using PC peripherals on console, it's cheaters from top to bottom, full stop. Even if we assume they just wanted to use M&K on console, they were still benefiting from aim-assist on top of whatever script they were running.

This is only the surface of people cheating on console, because if you remotely play your console via PC, you can layer Computer Vision cheats onto this, and send in cheated inputs. And for this, there is simply no anti-cheat.

There are two tiers of cheaters, one definitely far worse than the other, but they should be actioned against in the same way. Blizzard needs to stop with these initial warnings because there are way to get around these detection processes. Other games have tried and failed to eliminate these types of cheaters from their pool, so the only way to deal with them is by flagging their accounts, then banning in waves while issuing console + account bans. Cheaters don't stop after getting caught, they just make a new account and getting a phone number is trivial.