3 years ago

EA: The community has created a cheater database with video proof for you!

Dear EA-Team,

Battlefield V is doing quite OK regarding the number of players and there is a dedicated community that wishes to continue for years. On PC there is a serious cheater problem though, that you are aware of.

BATTLEFIELD V CHEATER DATABASE on YouTube. Please check it!

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So you have the cheater names + video proof. It's all there... Just check the channel every two weeks and ban the cheaters! Word would spread fast via ingame chat and the cheater problem on PC would be solved soon.

A player I know created this and he is recording cheaters several nights of the week. A lot of the footage hasn't even been uploaded yet and he wants to continue. I am befriended with him in the EA App and can connect you.

Please don't take any steps against the channel or the creator. He is a good guy who just wants to save the game that so many players love.

You created a great game with Battlefield V. Yes there were serious problems with the road map and other things, but I do also blame the sometimes impatient, unrewarding or even toxic behavior of many commenting players for the early stop of support.

As a player who just started about six months ago, let me tell you that the current version of the game is great fun and can even be addictive. I played more than 400 hours in this short period of time and bought a relevant amount of BFC from you for skins, because I really like the warbirds.

If only the cheaters wouldn't kill the fun in so many rounds. I am a pilot most of the time and most cheaters don't fly, but it still feels bad. For infantry it completely destroys the game.

The community created BATTLEFIELD V CHEATER DATABASE is a chance for you to put an end to this with minimum effort. Please consider working with us on this problem. Your community would be grateful!

Best regards

Spirit

24 Replies

EA_Barry
Community Manager
3 years ago
@SPIRITOFSTYLE

While we appreciate your motivation, "name and shame" is not allowed here so I removed that link.

Please use the correct avenue to report suspected cheaters:

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/report-players-for-cheating-abuse-and-harassment/

Thanks.
TheWolf_GB
3 years ago
Why is name and shame not allowed is it because it might make someone upset or do you admins don't like reading the truth.
All you ever do is lock cheating topics/threads.
Rant over.
BHLazio
Seasoned Adventurer
3 years ago
I know almost every cheater on PS4/PS5 and all of them use Cronus Zen.
SPIRITOFSTYLE
3 years ago
@EA_Barry many thanks for your quick reply!
Of course I understand that you have to follow the guidelines, which are important and necessary for such a big company. I did marketing projects with Nike and PlayStation in the past, so I know...
Unfortunately the regular way of reporting cheaters doesn't work out properly. I did a lot of reports myself and participated when some really bad cheaters got mass reported in a round, just to witness them cheating again and again afterwards.
Maybe the database could work within your guidelines, if it's set to private, so the public can't see it and only the responsible team at EA receives access. If you could send me an e-mail address of a good contact person for this topic, your help would be much appeciated. Otherwise I will try it the usual way via EA support chat, which will probably cost me some time. And if everything else fails, I might even ask someone at PlayStation to connect me. 🙂
Many thanks for your support!
Spirit
SPIRITOFSTYLE
3 years ago
@55555_Rico_55555
@EA_Barry
Guys I really understand the frustration about the cheaters, but harsh words towards EA won't help us here. It's company policy to refer us to the official reporting method. Barry has to do it.
Somewhere at EA there are probably some people who could help us with this. It won't be easy to find them and they surely have a lot of much more important work to do. Still I won't give up!
InS_Hypno
3 years ago
@TheWolf_GB wrote:
Why is name and shame not allowed is it because it might make someone upset or do you admins don't like reading the truth.
All you ever do is lock cheating topics/threads.
Rant over.
It's not allowed because the majority of people cannot spot the difference between someone who's playing good and an actual cheater
All it would do is allow witch hunts based on evidence that most people can't recognize is broken
XiqpiX
3 years ago
See, told you EA/Moderators protect the cheaters. It's all about money for them....
NodNod666
3 years ago
In these videos it is extremely clear that they are cheating
55555_Rico_55555
New Scout
3 years ago
@ESPRIT DE STYLE

I'm only sincere and I tell the truth with my grumpy French side.

I find it good what you are doing and in return for saying to look elsewhere to be polite, because answering to report when I have been reporting for 3 months on BF1 and BFV and we always come across the same cheaters with very high levels .

We reap what we sow with their EA policy which is detestable, to put it simply I take the money and then it's your problem.

He might now want us to pay to remove the cheaters?
NehkidGramma84
New Vanguard
3 years ago
@EA_Barry
@EA_Leeuw
(sigh) i really wish the admins of the game could just play the game as a normal player and experience what its like in game with these cheaters.

Regarding the reporting aspects of things, I feel that the Admins are falling behind in the customer service aspect. or they literally just shrug off a lot of our reports. with that being said, i have provided video proof of a player cheating in game and submitted the proof to EA as a in-game report, and the video was on my "unlisted" portion of my channel on YT and i have shared the link to the Admins several weeks ago. As of now, there is still NO views on that video.

I feel like there should be a new reporting rule of things. Admins won't consider the ban unless there is video evidence of the player cheating. This could cut back on a lot of reports being submitted. There IS an option to view the match in spectator mode and to view that specific cheater in question. and you can totally desktop screen record that situation on both Nvidia and AMD platforms. People need to start using it more.

Where is the updated anti-cheat approach EA?