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Yosenhimen
5 years ago

Top Warzone players quits over game "saturated with hackers"

Vikkstar quits Warzone  due to rampant cheating. 

Three people I know - not including myself - quit Apex over this issue, which also plagues this game. 
If you think you can save money because some suit at headquarters (who never played a FPS in his life) says so, you are ultimately going to be wrong. And being wrong means dead game, in this case. 

I know there has been some effort to curtail high end win - trading, but frankly that's not nearly enough. 

Break out the proverbial wallet. Spend whatever it takes to make this game as close to hacker-free as it can get. It will pay for itself -- perhaps many times over -- over the life of this game. 
The longer you think Apex Legends is going to stick around, the more important this becomes. 
But really, if you want to live up to your "pledge" that you will protect your "community" you can stop every non-cheater from the daily abuse by cheaters.

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  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
    Hero
    5 years ago
    @pastaclown I dunno how people do it. I have a few friends that love that game so once a week or so I play it with them. It truly is nothing but camping, hiding and shooting people that never even see you. To make it fun I get a truck and a launcher and drive around to run hill campers down.
  • DoYaSeeMe's avatar
    DoYaSeeMe
    5 years ago

    War against cheating is hard. Everyone wants to be safe from harm, but no one likes authoritarianism. 

    Extra security steps means more private data shared across the internet and stored by another company: phone number, credit card data, your first pet's name etc.. If that company gets hacked, all its clients are exposed and the risk is much greater than losing a match in a game. Anti cheat has the same problem, the deeper it goes into a client the worse it will get if a hacker manages to breach their software or databases.

    Besides the risk that comes with sharing more private data, security measures can take a heavy toll on performance. Games already push devices to the limit and we are still years away from having AI systems good enough to weed out cheaters efficiently, with no collateral damage. And, when they will come out, they will be very hungry in terms of computing power. 

    Players continuously reporting, along with "netwatch police" like Hideouts are the most efficient tools right now. I'm pretty sure that Conor Ford is not alone and it's good to keep people doing this type of work hidden from the public eye.

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