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RandomCZ
7 years ago

Re: Upcoming "fix" for piggy backing?

In my opinion, you can be calm. Their definition of Piggy-Backing as described by EA_David here is:

PIGGY-BACKING

Piggy-backing is when a player drafts off other players in the squad to carry them to a good position and level up faster but doesn't actually participate in the match [meaning they never collect a weapon, fire a shot, don’t deal any damage, etc]

 

So, if you collect weapons, shoot at the enemy (and hit 1 of 10 bullets like me), you should be alright.

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  • Koochi-Q's avatar
    Koochi-Q
    7 years ago
    @RandomCZ yea but what if the piggy backers know the conditions. Then they'll also pick up weapons and do as little as possible. How will that be any different from others who are extremely bad at gaming in general. Not an actual question/attack on what you said, but more my future process of how they'll maintain this not-so future proof definition.
  • warslag's avatar
    warslag
    7 years ago

    People used to refer to this as 'leeching' which may be a term which people perhaps wouldn't understand the meaning of. So it's called 'piggy-backing' now. In economics, according to Wikipedia, it's also known as 'free-riding'.

  • RandomCZ's avatar
    RandomCZ
    7 years ago

    @Koochi-Q>

    I think this is mainly a problem caused by people who want to get XP and level up effortlessly. Something like Boosters. So such an individual doesn't want to run around with the team, collect weapons or shoot. Apparently he probably wants to jump into the middle of the map, somewhere where he won't be seen and is AFK until the zone kills him. Alternatively, he moves from time to time to get into the next zone. For example, he gets to lvl 80 and then sells the account with everything he has gained (skins, materials & stuff). The buyer gets an account that has 0 kill, 0 dmg, etc. and has lvl 80.

    So I would say that the problem is not the player who plays the game badly, but rather the one who doesn't play it at all.

  • Koochi-Q's avatar
    Koochi-Q
    7 years ago
    @RandomCZ
    This may very well be the case but this is highly unlikely on consoles cause you'd need to buy a whole account. I don't know how it's on pc so I can't speak for that platform.

    I know this is a broadly used tactic for mmorpg's to get a high lvl account but for consoles, this just doesn't make sense. Only way to get this done would be to make a new account altogether with (new) email, lvl the account up and then try to sell it. 2 problems with this approach. First, why would a buyer want another email and password, when the supplier can add mobile insurance to the account to counter it getting 'hacked' and thus get the account back pretty easily. Second, on xbox you can only play apex if you buy xbox live gold. So I hardly think a supplier will buy live just to do nothing in a game only to sell it to someone.

    This is my thought process tho. If you have some knowledge I'm in the dark about, do let me know.
  • RandomCZ's avatar
    RandomCZ
    7 years ago

    I can hardly talk about consoles, because last console I've bought is this fellow. Well, mine is gray, not red.