Future plans to curb cheating in Ranked. An idea.

@13lack-0utuse in game tokens that you can earn by playing a game to unlock ranked - agreed, would eliminate those sub 100 level Diamond+ players in game that clearly disrupt the ideal system.

Paying actual money - hell no, not for the game that is all the time in beta testing. When Apex will solve their issues with ever breaking servers, various code:xxx errors that in many cases also steal RP, get you banned for 10 min etc. I will consider paying for it.

Until then my pay for the game is my time reporting those bugs here. That's enough.

Plus people (especially streamers who make money via the game) will easily afford to pay while kids who don't even have a summer job will be segregated/discriminated and we might lose some talent there.

Finally, I personally don't play pubs in general - a few games as a warmup per day at most. So for me getting ranked mode behind the wall of pay would mean that I would just uninstall this game instantly, like no kidding, do that and I will send you a screenshot of the fact during the same day.

What prevents cheating is good, up-to-date anti-cheat system. People mentioned here Blizzard - a good example, their games like Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 as far as I know still haven't been ripped and are not available in various sources of the web in a format where players can get it for free and play for free even a single-player mode.

Apex has issues because their code in source seems to have flaws, stuff from previous seasons does not get removed and get exploited in hacks e.g. there was an option to see in game how many people spectate you, now hackers implement that in their software so that hacking player can see that fact and disable/hack in a smarter way a soon as he/she sees that someone is spectating him/her, while going full-on while there are 0 spectators.

And such "features" are plenty in Apex.

To a certain extent I just think they will not going to rework the game, potentially make it less appealing just to eliminate those features and in turn, lose hackers but also paying regular players because the game will become more similar to other games before it.

To sum up:

• in-game currency that unlocks features and one you can earn by playing the game, gaining experience
• better anti-cheat
• rework of the game code, potentially removing some cool features from the game e.g. aim assist for the sake of it not being exploited by hackers
• more rights to the community to increase reaction speed of banning players
• better automated flagging system for players who just shoot from zero to hero in a short period of time, timely review of those cases
• more strict policy vs streamers who advertise public game stomping, smurfing etc.
• more info to educate community on core values of the game, teamwork, communication