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Dr_F4ncyP4nts's avatar
Dr_F4ncyP4nts
Seasoned Newcomer
5 days ago

State of cheaters/smurfs

Why do you have a button to report Smurfs/Cheaters and all I ever get is "We didn't do anything this time". I've played this game the entire time and I've only ever gotten 1 response that someone was banned. Why is there a level 13 legend in my Plat lobby? Why did I report that person and you said "we didn't do anything this time". When do you plan to do something? Why are there so many cheaters and smurfs? This is officially no longer fun. Can I get my money back for the 8 heirlooms I've Purchased? 

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  • Eshshshss's avatar
    Eshshshss
    Seasoned Ace
    4 days ago

    I think you need to read EULA and stop living in your imagery world :D EA owns your account in EVERY game no matter how much money you have spent :)

    Newsflash - same applied to all FTP games, EA is no exception.

  • Welcome to Apex :)

    Our best hope is that by reporting such players we are at least training some future AI model that will be smart enough to ban people based on the data collected (very much doubt so because most pros / streamers would get (finally) banned for grinding ranked).

    So yeah idk why those options are there and not only mentioned, like all of them. Only one that "works" since I have been around from season 7 is Chat abuse.

    Rest + web form = totally useless. Used to report like every player I spotted hacking or abusing something, but these days I just press those buttons when really bored / idle waiting for respawn.

    Also fun fact - got official reply from EA about Smurfing = their take on that is that e.g. pros / streamers creating accounts to do those "run from Bronze to Pred" is not smurfing because "they will rank up fast, will not do much "damage" to low rank players". Same goes with creating smurfs to play with "your friends" who are lower ranked (yet not valid since they removed barrier of 1.5 Tiers to match up).

    So basically only thing they would treat as smurf is someone going say from Rookie to Diamond and then dropping like 100 games in a row to get into Silver rank and farm to Diamond and repeat...yet for sure noone does that or some few really sick people maybe :)

    Finally game is in bad shape, figures of active players (until this season) has been falling, still are dramatically low, so every player matters to them smurf or hacker or what not, quite sure they could ban also bot farms upping profiles for sale, but if that would mean hit of like 10k+ players per daily activity...maybe they don't to keep numbers up for shareholders.

  • RETIRED_CAUSTIC's avatar
    RETIRED_CAUSTIC
    Seasoned Adventurer
    5 days ago

    Nothing will change. This is the FPS game with the highest percentage of cheaters. The anti-cheat system is useless. Wallhacking is so common in this game that there are already tons of them at the higher ranks. Not to mention macros or devices like Zen or XIM.