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Kaan Serin

Valve brings the ban hammer down on 10,000s of Dota 2 smurf accounts and other "bad actors" with a lump of Christmas coal

Dota 2.

Valve is channeling its inner Santa Claus with a Naughty & Nice List that includes a jolly festive update for Dota 2's nice players and a permaban for the tens of thousands of naughty players and smurf accounts. 

The company mentioned the crackdown on smurf accounts in a hilariously brutal blog post detailing this year's winter-themed Frostivus update. "You might remember back in September, we got out the ban hammer and permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts," the post reads. 

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