This has been suggested multiple times already and the main drawback is always the problem with matchmaking if you’re gonna segregate the paying from the non-paying. This system is better for non-BR games where you don’t need 60 players. Respawn can implement this in Arenas but almost no one plays that mode already and this system will worsen that mode’s MM.
"In my opinion the use of the "f2p" format is dated, it was a time when cheating was less prevalent and in todays time, its rampant and abused for all types of reasons. The only real way to reduce the cheating is to add a model where it cost you someting to play, so you have something to lose."
I respectfully disagree with this. Overwatch not going f2p and OW2 will be the death of that franchise since Blizzard doesn't want to move away from their tradition $60 multiplayer game and then expect you to pay more in the game. Try waiting for a single match for at least 10-15mins just to fill up a 12 player match, now try doing that in a BR for 60 players.
I get that you would like to at least make it harder for cheaters and smurfs to play, but I'm pretty sure there are other better ways. This is EA, I'm 1000% sure they already thought of milking more money from players.
It is a complete fallacy that paying for a game stops cheating.
Paying games have just as many cheaters.
it is the popularity of a game and ease of writing the cheat code versus anti-cheat code that determines how much people try to cheat.
I still argue differently. Fortnite and Overwatch (Blizzard's game is trash but their anti-cheat is good) are both immensely popular games but with less cheating because of the dedication both their companies do to shutting down cheaters. One is free to play and the other is pay to play. But cheating is rampant in plenty of either pay or freemium games. It's Apex that gets the attention, I'd argue, because it is probably the most popular game with the most cheating.
Not saying Respawn doesn't care, but I seriously doubt EA is bothering to spend the resources they need to fight cheating. Fighting cheating is a cost, so no company wants to do it. But if you start losing players in droves because of it, theres no cost like no income.
Apex gets away with it so far because it is still popular. I don't really think people are interested in quitting the game over cheaters.
