Mobile authenticators to stop cheating
Title says it all basically. Adding mobile authenticators would be very beneficial for the game. Currently a banned player will just create a new account and get right back to cheating. With mobile a...
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You cannot gift sub to others, you cannot gift store items to others, you cannot authenticate your account which leaves you exposed to the acocunt being stolen, you have to go through hell to change nicknames, paying method etc.
Sadly for you IMEI cannot be spoofed by the average user, that is why Police uses the IMEI to track down stolen devices once they connect to the network. The IMEI in order to be spoofed you need to have access to root in the android and i am 99% certain you cannot even access the root in Apple phones.Changing the IMEI number is illegal both in US and Europe and in China. That means all the areas this game is widely popular at. Changing the IMEI locks your SIM and notifies the network provider that you have changed the IMEI and then they can choose to call the police on you. You want a police squad with guns on your *? Be my guess change the IMEI, i will read on the news the rest of the story. Also which sane person will choose to commit a real crime by chaning the IMEI on their own in order to cheat in Apex?????
So it is a very effective method.The most effective way to stop cheating is to combine 3-4 methods against cheaters and right now the best methods are HWID ban, mobile authenticator, better anti-cheat program and lawsuit to poverty the cheaters.
Your proposal of the account costing moeny has been tested and has failed across all games. R6S had that and guess what? People were buying cheap accounts from China for less than 1 dollar and conitnued to cheat or people would get stolen accounts for cheap from cheating sites. One method alone does not work.
Finally friend you don't even know what IMEI is. IMEI = International Mobile Equipment Identity IMEI =/ = Device ID. Device ID is the name people see when searching for your device via BT in a network and can be changed from within the settings in any mobile phone. You might want to change the name of your phone from Samsung Galaxy to Blueberry or to Jack. Useually Device ID is created the first time the phone is "online" on a network. IMEI is created when the install your operating system on your phone while the phone is still in the factory it is being produced at.
The IMEI is how the provider and the satellites see your phone on the network. Too very different things.
@Karsot lol? you think cheaters are gifting sub to others? or concerned about their account being stolen?
It is illegal to spoof an IMEI -- on a cellular network, for the purpose of impersonating a device.. Cheaters can easily fire up an android emulator, put in any IMEI they want, connect it via normal internet, and it does not break any laws. Which means cheaters only have to convince the authenticator to run on an emulator and they can easily make as many IMEIs as they want.
And this is sidestepping the primary problem that few game companies want to "require" second-factor for their users if they fear it will have a chance of decreasing revenues.
In the end, it's really really hard to stop cheaters. Google just announced their Stadia game-streaming platform, and game streaming has some serious latency issues to tackle, so I'm doubtful it'll be successful. However, one big benefit is that when the client also runs in the cloud there is no way to install cheats. So maybe there is a far off future where we can get really low latency no-cheat gaming using game streaming.
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