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Sure maybe VAC is better than EAC by some degree but both of those systems fail to prevent cheaters from exploiting the game, which is to be expected of any anti-cheat system due to the way games are designed.
So if Valve can't even protect its own CS:GO / source engine from cheaters then why would Respawn have any incentive to use Steam? Both of these games are based on the source engine and they are both vulnerable to some of the same exploits, which is probably why we saw cheats released for Apex about 4 days after launch.
I'm convinced Counter-strike still holds the #1 rank for cheaters in any game period, although nobody can really prove which game has the most cheaters counter-strike has always had a very bad problem with cheaters on the game, more so than any other game. I'll give Valve credit for putting forth a good effort to stop cheaters. Recently they have begun to use deep learning / AI to weed out cheaters which is probably the level of anti-cheat that we need to be effective, however this type of feature would likely have to be programmed by feeding hundreds hours of material for the AI to process through so I doubt VAC would provide this level of anti-cheat for other games.
PUBG has also sued cheaters in China, which I'm all for ( get wrecked cheaters I hate you ), but it's still not an effective deterrent.
The bottom line is with a game like Apex that probably has already cleared more than 100 or 200 million in sales, you can afford to develop your own anti-cheat system or have a wallet big enough to sue every cheater, but what they can't afford is giving out %30 percent of their profit to an anti-cheat system that fails to protect them against cheats. They could easily develop a much better one on their own with this sort of money.
I do agree that the situation is quickly becoming unbearable. After the first week where they banned 16,000 cheaters, they patched up their system, and now hackers are rampant once again.
I personally reported a least a dozen of blatantly evident ones - such as people shooting through walls, prefiring the hell out of everyone and repeatedly head-shooting people at 150+ meters over and over. You know what? I've checked the accounts after a while - they're all playing no matter what. Even if the got banned, why should they care at all? They create a new account in seconds and that's it.
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