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superlloyd
7 years ago
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Upcoming "fix" for piggy backing?

They plan to ban player who do not contribute? But what if you are just bad at the game? I like to play, but at almost 50 years old and kind of new to FPS underperforming is my normality and I have ...
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  • Koochi-Q's avatar
    Koochi-Q
    7 years ago
    Good day sir (I'm assuming you're male. In case you aren't my apologies).
    You said 2 things that are completely different. 1) Being bad and 2) not participating.
    You can be bad but still participate. It likely means you shoot and might hit a target. But you can't not-participate and say you're bad (you didn't say this, I just use general 'you' here) or good. If you don't participate, you do absolutely nothing.

    As for you, if you're bad, you'll die. So you shouldn't be wary of getting banned because you won't be piggybacking
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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.
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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.

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    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.
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      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.