VPNs work

[Khanzy]

I'm considering this a bug. VPNs are constantly being abused to circumvent region locks and the quality of matches in EU has plummeted because of it. I maybe get 1 player communicating in 10 games. Can you do something about this?

 

[fkmmarr]

I believe you can simply go in the game and change your region. I know several people who swap from Oceania to North America to play with friends.

 

[Samuel Bucher]

I believe you can simply go in the game and change your region. I know several people who swap from Oceania to North America to play with friends.

I'm Russian and this doesn't work anymore. Maybe it's Russia specific?

 

[gibnewitems]

I'm considering this a bug. VPNs are constantly being abused to circumvent region locks and the quality of matches in EU has plummeted because of it. I maybe get 1 player communicating in 10 games. Can you do something about this?

go to the discord and send a matchid to yoshi. he says there aren't supposed to be mixed queues.

I'm Russian and this doesn't work anymore. Maybe it's Russia specific?

they also have to use VPNs to queue into other servers, thought yoshi has said that the dev team is looking into allowing players from low pop regions (like south africa) to queue into EU servers if queue times take too long.

 

[thehourofcode123]

I wonder how you can even fix this, server just gets IP.

 

[thehourofcode123]

Also considering third party issues as a bugs is funny.

 

[gibnewitems]

I wonder how you can even fix this, server just gets IP.

Multiple ways, actually. There's lists of known proxy IPs out there that valve could use to blacklist vpn users from accessing their games. They already do this for the steam store, so it should be quite trivial to prevent vpn users from matchmaking.

 

[chooseLife]

aahahhaha 1200% legit genius Khanzy

 

[RADUOLOGY]

I cannot play the game without a vpn because my university wifi has a firewall installed for pretty much all online games, so banning the use of vpns means banning players like me from being able to play the game

 

[Khanzy]

aahahhaha 1200% legit genius Khanzy

Yeah banning russia would be a good idea. But considering you don't know how to behave and you abuse vpn so you can dodge eachother and pretend like you're any better than eachother... this is the next step.

go to the discord and send a matchid to yoshi. he says there aren't supposed to be mixed queues.

It's actually literally constant. They're in every game. They pause at the start of games to switch VPN off.

 

[Samuel Bucher]

Yeah banning russia would be a good idea. But considering you don't know how to behave and you abuse vpn so you can dodge eachother and pretend like you're any better than eachother... this is the next step.


It's actually literally constant. They're in every game. They pause at the start of games to switch VPN off.

They are not going to ban Russia, I assure you. We are too big of an audience in MOBAs.

 

[thehourofcode123]

Multiple ways, actually. There's lists of known proxy IPs out there that valve could use to blacklist vpn users from accessing their games. They already do this for the steam store, so it should be quite trivial to prevent vpn users from matchmaking.

You can easily set up your own VPN in an hour.

 

[gibnewitems]

You can easily set up your own VPN in an hour.

That requires spending money renting a vps, which is usually located inside a data center that anybody could easily blacklist from connecting to their services using publicly available resources.

 

[thehourofcode123]

That requires spending money renting a vps, which is usually located inside a data center that anybody could easily blacklist from connecting to their services using publicly available resources.

What about OpenVPN? From what I remember, you can literally set up some machine as vpn.