Yes you are right. I recently watched the latest Apex hacks on Youtube and most of them are even togglable in a separate window. My take on this issue, and many other in this game, is that the developers are well aware of it; its even done so by design.
Fact is that game developers are a smart group of people, and they all these kinds of "features" are there, not by accident, but because they designed it so after much evaluation. They have had meetings where they discussed if the player should see how many that are spectating him and if its only gonna count teammates or also enemies. So once again; the developers WANT you to see if enemies are spectating you for one or the other reason. Maybe because they believe its a "better" way to make people stop cheating without having to ban them, i.e losing players.
Same goes with the "issue" of randoms who drops aggressively and leave the game as soon as they get knocked. The developers has made it so by design. If they wanted to prevent this, they would have only allowed you to join another game after your Respawn timer has run out, or when your squad is dead. But the fact that they allow people to, die, leave and join another game lead us to the concussion that Respawn supports this kind of behavior.
I disagree here. Spectator count will only deter people from cheating WHILE being spectated, it would be much more effective deterrent knowing people can spectate you secretly. Spectated cheaters would just get reported less cause they know they're being watched, so unless the company intentionally decided that reducing their ability to find cheaters was a good idea I 100% doubt that they were thinking about that.
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