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This sounds interesting, tho' i guess at expense of non-cheating new players.
- 7 years agoYeah, guess one can think of it as community grind / contribution, combined with in game reporting would really make this gaming community a better place. Maybe could be a target for newer accounts to achieve. Prob should make it public knowledge so new accounts would know the more they invest, be it time or money, the better the experience will be in the long run
- 7 years ago
@Tensai_Zoo wrote:This sounds interesting, tho' i guess at expense of non-cheating new players.
As interesting as it is, I don't think it is a good idea to place all the new players with all the cheaters. Imagine someone trying the game for the first time, and having to play against cheaters game after game. They would quit and never return. This would stop the game from gaining new players.
I believe a much better method is to introduce a cost to the game, for example, $10 USD. But then compensate us by giving us in-game cash worth $10 USD. In essence, the game is free for the regular player. But cheaters would have to "buy" a new account every single time they get banned. This would discourage some cheaters. The higher the price is, the fewer the number of cheaters there will be.
Right now as a free game, there is no consequence for getting caught cheating.
- 7 years ago
As bad as it may sound and the experience might be horrid, I still think its not too bad to grind out of "new account" status, provided that it is made apparent that the account will change after X condition, be it hours and games played or by dropping cash "buying something in game". I'm also assuming that there would be a easy way to report a player of cheating in game. Thus weeding out all the cheaters earlier, granted they can start over and create another account.
The idea of the $10 cost for a game doesn't sound bad but might not get as much attention as it did if costs were involved, hell I wasn't into BR's but the execution of APEX made me come back for more. But yeah maybe a middle ground being that the game stays free, however if you do spend cash in game your account then is moved out of the "new account" category and join up with the rest of the diligent community.
- 7 years ago
Why do you think cheaters would have a small number of hours played??
That would only happen if there was an efficient and effective reporting and banning system.. which does not yet exist... and when it does exist, cheating will not be as much of a problem.
Here is an idea for a game without cheaters...
Prevent x-ray by hiding information from clients by using server-side player-to-player visibility checks (like world of tanks), and prevent aimbot by giving everyone aimbot. Voila, these cheats are useless.
- 7 years agoits just as important to get new players over keeping the older ones.
If every new players gets in a game with 6 cheaters the first 10 matches i think your new player base will dry up.- 7 years ago
@DaAceXD, I agree new players are important, thus the idea of making it apparent to the new players that the account is in a stage that isn't where the majority of the community is at. Kind of like a probation period if you want to call it that. So kinda of like proving you don't cheat, or haven't been caught cheating, or buy something in game showing that account actually has value to lose, like paying to get out of probation. On the other point with 6 cheaters in 10 games, well that would mean that the majority of the new accounts are cheating... I've only noticed 1 cheater in my 90 hours, might have been more but I thought I was just being out played.
Coming back to the probation period, I think its safe to skip probation is a players EA account has more than X amount of games, EA account has made credit card transactions or has Origin Access. Basically indicating the account has value and not a typical fresh account with only Apex or other free games (i.e there is a consequence if you do get caught and banned for cheating).
- 7 years ago
All rules and regulations and laws are basically at the expense of the law abiding
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