THE BOTTOM LINE ABOUT HACKERS
It is clear that this game is plagued with hackers. If you play enough you will run into atleast one a day maybe more if you are unlucky. There are some things to we have to understand in this regard.
1. Apex Legends is a new game utilizing a sub par anti-cheat in the Easy AntiCheat. With this in mind hackers can more easily come out with newer and better hacks before the anti-cheat can come up with a fix for it. Think of this in regards to viruses. The virus companies are constantly working to compete with those who create the virus.
2. Posting videos of hackers here on the forums will get you no where. Due to EA rules and guidelines this falls under the category "Naming and Shaming" and will end up either getting you banned or the removal of your video. Record your video still, but send it to EA utilizing this page: https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/apexlegends/contact/report/
3. Apex Legends is a free game. What this means is once EA finally catches up to them and ban them they can simply create a new account and continue as normal. Yes, this is increasingly frustrating for those of us who play the game legit.
4. Going back to the fact that Apex Legends is new we have to understand that the game developers focus lies more in the creating more content than fixing current issues. This is not the first game to be plagued with this and won't be the last. Simply put things like hackers will never get the same attention as creating more skins, characters, or weapons. I can name dozens of games that have done exactly the same thing in this regard.
Bottom line is this: YES, hackers are a problem and EA is aware of this, however, until this affects the amount of players playing the game it will never get the attention it deserves. Since this will likely not happen soon either wait until the problem is resolved or play and report utilzing link above.
What is the point sweating to ban hundreds of thousands and millions of cheaters if they just create a new account and come back? EA doesn't have the proper security measures to tackle this. It will just be a never ending battle of banning accounts, not cheaters.
If EAC is not even capable of detecting a speedhack, one of the oldest cheats in the book and also the easiest to detect, compared to aimbots and wallhacks/map hacks, you should take into consideration the following:
1) Why isn't a phone number required yet whenever you create a new Origin account? This way you add multiple layers of security, as you also need an email and a phone number aswell to activate your Origin account. This would make it way harder for cheaters to come back with multiple accounts.
2) Change your anticheat security or demand a better implementation and cheat detection. There is no point in banning accounts indefinitely. Anticheat should be able to detect these hacks and prevent them rather than making your honest playerbase an in-game militia to police every hacker they meet. That's not what players are here for and it's not our fault that others are a bunch of excrements that can't play whithout cheating.
If others can do it, you should be able to do it even better. I'm not demanding anything for free. Couple the above stuff with great in-game content and i am willing to drop some cash every now and then. You either shouldn't expect to get money for nothing. Make it so you deserve it.
