Marvel Rivals dev knows players are getting paid to "deliberately sabotage matches" in a "disturbing trend," threatens permanent bans for people "maliciously idling"

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NetEase is aware that some Marvel Rivals players are getting paid to deliberately throw matches, and it's threatening to dish out permanent bans to anyone caught taking on these bounties.

A website called Intlist recently caused waves for allowing players to post bounties across a number of online games, including Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, Overwatch, and Marvel Rivals. People could essentially put a cash bounty on any player for any reason, and the system then rewards the person who throws a match against the target.