You all know me, im normally a very vocal critic of Respawn.
But now its time i take up the cudgels for them :
When Apex started, we had the usual Aimbots, ESP, Wallhacks ect. like any other Game before.
Not in a very high percentage and also it was very obvious, i invite anyone to go back in this Forum an look for posts about "Aimbot" before 2021.
Sure it was an issue, but compared to the amount of players back then a negligible issue.
Only die hard cheaters, with the knowledge (and money) were using them.
But times changed and so did the cheaters :
When a schoolkid is buying a cronus, xim, titan or RC-Filter Controllers at Wallmart, Amazon, you name it,
they normally dont think that this might be even cheating ... hey they bought the device at Wallmart ... would they sell cheats ?!?! No way ...
They think using those things is normal bcs "everybody" is using them.
This is a social issue, not a problem that can be fixed by some anticheat, but by educating our kids that gaining an unfair advantage is bad in general.
But we let our children be educated by some influencers on tiktok, yt shorts, instagramm ... no wonder they don't feel guilty.
We cannot blame Respawn for that and Respawn isnt responsible for cleaning up that particular mess !
Walmart would not sell cheats? Your young age is showing, there was a thing called game genie back in the day and it was both legal and sold, look it up...
Like every bad behavior in society, it needs to be met with greater punishment, life is about incentives, if there are negative consequences for doing an action then humans stop doing the action, **bleep** empathy is what allows idiotic ideas as soft on punishment.
Ill bet im way older than you, if you mention the game genie ;)
I know the Action Replay and alike from my C64 days and those things were made to cheat yourself in single player games.
Classmates buying those modules got blamed for being bad at video games and laughed at.
A fun way to make them even more angry was to edit their highscores with a hexeditor while they went to the restroom during a game session.
Whereas Aimbots/Aimhelpers for FPS games had to be acquired through the dark channels, but now being sold on literally every streetcorner.
You actually had to put in effort to acquire, install and configure those things, thats why the aimbots of the early days weren't really an issue. Most people simply lacked the needed knowledge.
By mentioning Walmart i just wanted to express the customers reasoning, often not being aware they walk on the dark side by buying that kind of crap bcs they bought it in an official store.
I see what you mean now, yeah, its **bleep**, the best part is, these forums are made so we can express and respawn listens but nope, they don't give a **bleep**, they are supposed to have jobs where they work on this but I bet they work 10% of the 100% time they get paid, glorified developers...
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