What makes u think that this will solve the problem lol, I think people tend to have the misconception of cheaters, most cheaters do not know how to make/program their own cheats, meaning they buy it from someone, cheats costs at a usual price of at least 30 euros a month, and some could get up to 2000, meaning cheaters CAN afford a 10-20 dollar purchase, especially if they use expensive cheats and not get detected in months...
So basically this could cost respawn ALOT of money to do and also possibly getting sued, and what benefit does it get? Close to nothing.
U might say there's "FREE“ cheats around the internet and they are "easy" to find, but no, they are either viruses or outdated, even if the cheat works, it will get detected very fast, thanks to EAC.
Which is why most cheaters wont even care abt the 10-20 bucks purchase.
Freemium saves you none in cheaters.
It costs you to buy Overwatch and cheating has always been at least as rampant there, certainly no less.
It is the popularity of the game, and the ease of the cheating versus the anti-cheat practices of the company. Fortnite is freemium and has far less cheating than Overwatch or Apex because Epic is both making far more money and also they are far more vigilant.
Apex has a problem in that their anti-cheat isn't up to snuff. They make plenty of cash too from their game, far as I can tell, more than they would selling it for $40 because people don't really know how to control their purses. It's a matter of their anti-cheat practices not being as high a priority, or they aren't as good at it.
