Still no Effort to Stop Cheaters, Huh?
I really appreciate getting killed and proceeding to watch the player that killed me getting nothing but headshots on every target with flawless tracking. It's even more fun when I swap over to the next player in their squad and they're doing the same thing.
I really like how impotent Respawn is when it comes to stopping these cheaters. It's awesome to see how emboldened the cheaters are that they'll even squad up and set their cheats for 100% headshots because they know what a joke Easy Anti-Cheat and Respawn are. They know that even ragebotting isn't enough to get them banned.
I really like how cheaters can be reported constantly but nothing happens to them for weeks, months, or sometimes at all. Knowing that they can get to the top-ranks without being banned unless a well-known streamer sends in video evidence of them speedhacking and getting 100% headshots makes me so happy and really encourages me to spend money on this game.
More than anything though, I REALLY like how I've recorded incontrovertible evidence of a well known streamer using a triggerbot because he got caught in a FoV glitch multiple times within the span of 2 minutes, yet the lad continues to play on the same account to this day and continues to show obvious signs of botting. It's such a great thing to know that if someone was so inclined and/or well-known enough then they can cheat in Apex Legends with absolute impunity.
Irony aside, it's such a shame that an incredibly fun game like Apex is entirely overshadowed by Respawns impotence, incompetence, and unwillingness to actually work on addressing the situation. I know fanbois will jump all over me and make nonsensical arguments such as "if stop cheat so easy den y u no stop cheetahs?" but the reality is far and removed from a fanbois perception.
Respawn, you all could do so much more to make it that much more difficult to cheat in Apex Legends but you don't and won't. It's not that you can't, you all just make no effort. You tell us something is being done: lies; the same kind of cheats are being used to the same affect. You tell us about the number of players you've caught cheating and have banned: platitudes; you think that by telling us we'll believe you're actually working on it.
Certain companies (which I won't go into great detail about) have what's known as a DMCA Compliance Division. These people sit behind a computer 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday, and all for the sole purpose of finding sites that are uploading their content without permission (i.e. without paying). I'm sure you all understand the concept since you're an EA subsidiary and we know how much EA loves its $$$$.
It'd be a simple task of hiring a few people to fill a similar role except their purpose would be to find sites uploading cheats, acquire them, and add them to a blacklist. Ensuring players that choose to cheat don't get to cheat for very long... however, it would seem that Respawn would sooner have the entirety of their legitimate playerbase suffer from rampant cheating than to create a few jobs and proactively seek to stymie these cheaters.
Players have to do the entirety of the work to get a cheater banned. We have to volunteer the cheats over to EAC because they make no proactive effort to go out and identify the cheats themselves. Which means we have to spend our money to acquire these cheats just so we can hand them over and have EAC sit on them until they can be bothered to update their blacklist accordingly. We have to record the cheaters cheating and hope that the people reviewing the footage either recognize our name as being a big streamer with a lot of online clout so they actually move on it to resolve the case and to satisfy us/our fans, or hope that the person reviewing it is self-aware enough to recognize cheats when they're right in front of their face.
Frankly, the whole situation is an absolute exercise in bad-faith from both Respawn and EAC. If you all think that you can fool us into believing that you actually care by operating the way that you do then just know that at the very least there's one person out there that sees straight through you, your lies, and your platitudes.
