I use BanAsync to keep cheaters out of my game. When my servers detect a without a doubt exploiter, they are instantly main + alt banned from playing my game. Despite including alts in my BanAsync calls, it never seems to stop any of the alt/bot farm accounts that rejoin servers and keep cheating.
It’s a common story exploiters tell us themselves, that all they do to bypass a BanAsync ban is just log into an alt from some farm of them. The only stories we ever see of alt-included bans actually having an impact is when users verify that their siblings accounts were indeed cheating, and now they’re banned as an alt.
When will this be increased or ideally removed? because I don’t know how I’d ever gauge if this is effective in my game or not if it only has a 24 hour window. We’ve managed to catch a lot of tragic ban cases all without making a serious dent in real cheater issues with BanAsync.
It sucks that its taken years this system to get any improvements, and as a developer it’s frustrating having to keep waiting for something we’ve been needing for a while, to live up to its promise as a critical civility tool for our games and communities.