Here's my answer to the question of Anti-Cheat and EA and their Battlefield games.
Don't buy their games anymore. Why continue to reward them for their bad behavior?
I've played battlefield since 2002 when Battlefield 1942 came out. That game and the even better BF2 blew my mind and opened up a new world of gaming for everyone.
But. The last 2 titles as well as Star Wars: Battlefront 2 are such a hackfest, it's clear to me that they no longer care. Don't tell me there's nothing they can do. They could, but they won't. They are afraid of alienating "paying customers" with a heavy hand approach. Instead they choose to alienate their loyal fair-play customer base instead and hope to gawd that you still stick around.. Does that sound logical to you? How does that make you feel? I feel betrayed, simply betrayed. It's clear to me that the people at the top at Dice/EA are not the same as those who started this once-great game.
Unless I see them make CONCRETE AND PUBLIC efforts to combat the issue, I'll be playing other games., Sadly, it has come to this.
@LGYamita I don't see how being a longtime player would matter more than a newcomer when it comes down to the question whether both are able to enjoy the game. The bots, as previously stated, help new and old gamers who've lost their ''quick'' response time a lot. They've stated bots will cap at half the server capacity and will be removed as more players join. I'd thus heavily imply they do care, otherwise they'd not find solutions to satisfy casual players, competitive players, or players who just want to have a fun shitfest by combining the forces in their previous titles. Of course, they're still a corporation in a capitalistic society who gotta earn money and won't throw all revenue back onto the game. I doubt everyone would've been satisfied even if every title after BF 1942 was free patches to the previous mentioned title, nor would it realistically have given DICE and EA the funds to do the patches to begin with.
Moving on from whether they care or not, and onto the original topic; It's kinda ironic how you mention BF 1942 and BF2 without any context to anti-cheat software. Yet again, those games weren't free of hackers either, but maybe your nostalgia got the better of you. I still remember seeing the popups from Punkbuster in Battlefield 3. Back then hackers were a huge deal because EA/DICE were still nice to them, believing in redemption whereas a ragehacker could end up with a month ban, then three months, a year and so forth. Today, would you be caught hacking in Battlefield 1, you immediately lose access to the multiplayer f o r e v e r. Battlefield 2042 will be the first game with EAC afaik, and them being a hired independent company, they will likely strive to demonstrate to us the players, as well as their customer; EA/DICE, that they picked the best guys on the anti-cheat software market by being as ruthless as possible.
