@Midnight9746Here's an Idea. Add an extra lobby for a premium membership, where only those who pay premium can access. It is no different than normal, but it may have less cheaters as they don't want their bank accounts tied to a cheater account. As such, the company may even be able to block purchased from bank accounts by being able to ban them or something, thus cheaters would get crossed and found out and arrested trying to make a ton of bank accounts to bypass, as banking systems are more complex than gaming systems. They might even get a direct line to the FBI for wirefraud cases.
Gifting shouldn't count, and premium membership access shouldn't be giftable.
This will, or should, solve 2 things.
A: Less cheaters in some lobbies.
B: More income to get EA off their necks so they can get back to making content instead of junk.
C: Steady cash flow that doesn't rely on junk items or spam creating junk.
D: Happier customers overall, except freeplayers.
E: Probably won't see as much action on console lobbies for a few reasons.
E1: Xbox require live gold to access.
E2: Fewer cheaters in console only lobbies already.
E3: If they push a merge of console and PC lobbies onto console, they will receive a lot of flak and fire for it.
E3.5: They'd probably try it to let console lobbies see PC cheaters and incentivise buying their subscription on top of live gold. Don't know if PS has one of those. They should leave well enough alone and not push it for console. It's only needed on PC.
F: Elon Musk effectively did this to Twitter (X). Working out pretty well I think.
