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Re: Anti-Cheat Approach in Battlefield V: Did you gave up?

Well it looks like EA has shown itself to be exactly who we all expected. 

The cheating mega thread has been closed on the forums, and any attempt to start a new one is instantly shut down. 

They say that they have made improvements and everything is working as intended now. Well good luck with that. I think the community has already spoken loud and clear by simply not playing BF5 anymore. What a pathetic response to a very serious issue. I am not going to be going back to playing BF5 and I don't think I will be purchasing anything from EA in the next 5 years. Hopefully instead of just firing developers they start firing C level execs and become a reputable game company again. But I'm not going to hold my breath. 

Enjoy your cheat filled, micro-transaction filled, garbage netcode games

EA used to be a great company making great games, not any more. Now they can barely turn out mediocre games and patches that don't ruin more than they fix. What a joke

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  • EA_Blueberry's avatar
    EA_Blueberry
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    6 years ago

    @RichardSinerface wrote:

    The cheating mega thread has been closed on the forums, and any attempt to start a new one is instantly shut down. 


    @RichardSinerface  Are you referring to this one? 

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-4/PS3-New-Insane-Cheat-Hack-Poised-to-Ruin-BF4/td-p/4732200

    That was locked because it was a discussion originally from 2015 and it's against the AHQ posting Rules to "necropost" old posts. We welcome feedback around concerns of hacking/cheating, however you cannot call out suspected cheaters in a post. Naming & shaming other players is not allowed

    • Necropost. Reviving, updating or bumping old, outdated and irrelevant threads is not helpful for our community. It's best to check when the thread was created before you hit post, just to make sure it's not 2 years old for example.
  • No, I am not talking about BF4. No one on this thread is talking about BF4. Why would we be??

    Here is the Mega thread that just got shut down

    https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us/discussion/164496/i-hate-to-admit-it-but-there-are-cheaters-in-this-game-currently/p247

    You will notice it is over 247 pages long and was mentioned in the first post of this thread too.

    Here is Braddock's reply about anti-cheat that I also mentioned. Where he states that all future anti-cheat threads will be insta shut down.

    https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us/discussion/comment/1551401#Comment_1551401

    Please keep your condescending attitude to yourself until after you actually read and understand the concepts being discussed. I know that is a little rude, but come on... did you even read the posts in this thread?? 

    Do you know the state of the official BF5 forums? Do you see all the locked threads about cheating that continue to be posted? Do you understand that this is still the number one issue for most people. No other thread came close to the participation as the anti-cheat thread.  EA locked the BF1 cheat thread the exact same way.

    That is why I stand by my decision to no longer support your company with my money. This is not the first time this exact same scenario has played out.

    This thread we are posting on is a carry over from the Official BF5 forums where it is seemingly impossible to get a response from EA. I appreciate you are interacting and posting but this is all to do with your current FLAGSHIP GAME BF5.

  • Madnesis's avatar
    Madnesis
    Seasoned Rookie
    6 years ago

    It's been few months I'm following and posting in the thread that was closed on Official EA Forums as mentioned by @RichardSinerface: https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us/discussion/164496/i-hate-to-admit-it-but-there-are-cheaters-in-this-game-currently/p247

    It does look like a poor censorship attempt to me and here is why I think so:

    1. No prior notification before closing the topic.

    2. He provided this link which states basically that situation should be better now when it comes to cheaters. Why not wait for player feedback prior closing the topic?

    3. Assumption is that the cheater problem is no longer a thing, he mentioned he would close any new topic related to that.

    I will give you guys another chance since you supposedly worked on FairFight (even though situation was horrible for months and it should have been done way earlier) so I'm really looking forward to see if the situation is definitely better now or not and will come back if it's not the case.

  • HAHAHA

    I love that you guys marked @Madnesis post as the solution. Is it because he said he would give you another chance?

    The only person to give XP to his response is an EA Community Manager, who also marked it as the solution. Wrong. The solution is to prove that you have a working anti-cheat before you end all discussion around the topic. 

    That proof MAY be coming. But lets be honest this isn't the first time that Braddock has said "we are working on it" and 6 months later no noticeable action had been taken.

    Trying to silence dissent doesn't make the issue go away. It just makes your community feel unheard and ignored. This is exactly how the nearly 5000 posters on the Anti-cheat thread feel. 

  • Madnesis's avatar
    Madnesis
    Seasoned Rookie
    6 years ago

    Hey @RichardSinerface, actually it was me, not sure I should have done it prior playing the game for a while but I like to assume the best of each other and supposedly, changes were made to improve FairFight (their anti-cheat if someone still missed that) so I see no reason I should not trust them at least yet. Thing is, I thought I could remove afterwards my post as solution but I can't so that wasn't necessarily a smart move but no big deal anyway, if needed, we will start another thread.

  • EA_Blueberry's avatar
    EA_Blueberry
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    6 years ago

    @RichardSinerface 

    The discussion was locked as players were referred to the response from the Battlefield Communiy Manager covering this topic. We will be locking this post as well.

    Hello,

    With the last few updates, our teams have continued to work on anti-cheat efforts to improve gameplay fairness and fair play in Battlefield V. With these behind-the scenes updates, our detections and detection methods have improved. 
    We've also improved our reporting methods, as well as improved the reporting review process with our anti-cheat team. 

    We appreciate the feedback from the community and ask you to continue to properly report any suspicious players you encounter. Please remember: simply filing a report does not mean they are guilty of cheating. Our anti-cheat teams look into each and every report to verify the authenticity and take appropriate action when a cheat is verified. Also note: we had previously stopped giving 7 day suspensions. Once verified via our internal tools, we have a zero-tolerance policy towards cheating accounts. 

    One thing we urge each and every Battlefield player to review is their account security details. Do you have Secret Question/Answer on your account? Do you have more than one? Have you added Two-Factor Authentication to your account (via the Origin Authentication Process/Backup Codes or a third party authenticator like Google Authenticator? Unsecured accounts are sought after by cheat engineers and cheaters to test their cheat tools. 


    This thread will be closed. Over the summer we'll be working with our anti-cheat and TOS teams to continue working on anti-cheat, from even more improved detection methods to better reporting processes for our gamers and more informative replies to cheat reports and appeals.


    -Braddock512-

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