total lack of anti-cheat
BF5 is the last software I will buy from EA. Just another game that is loaded with cheaters. EA doesn't bother with anticheat, they just want our money. wouldn't surprise me if EA sold cheats thruog...
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@qbert088 The game has an anti-cheat solution
But again...The gaming companies have a hard time to keep up with the cheat devs. I am/was playing a number of MMO's (less in the last couple of years, due to lack of time), like COD series, Destiny 2, World of Tanks, The Division 1/2, For Honor (as you can see many from other company than EA), but they all have the same problem: cheating is rampant. The companies are trying to counter this phenomenon, but the anti-cheat solutions are reactive, not pro-active.
The cheat devs usually will find exploits in the game and the anticheat soft won't know about it. At some point, the anticheat devs will catch the exploit and they will close it. The cheat devs will find another (if they didn't already have a few others discovered, but kept as backups, in case that the original exploit is found). Everything further is rinse and repeat.
In our days there are way too many people willing to cheat (don't see anyone seeing those as part of the problem), just for shallow glory, to see their own names in the leaderboards. So the cheat makers have a growing market and they don't care about the honest players that are affected by their soft. Companies take action by going after the sites where the cheats are sold, but lately, those sales moved in places like Discord, dark web and other shadier places. As long there will be money to be made and they are not found, the cheat makers will continue. As there is no legislation against cheating in an online game, this is like fighting windmills. EA, Acti, WG, Ubi, you name it, they do try to stop this in a few ways. Sometimes they will sue the cheat makers under a copyright claim. But that means a legal battle. And many judges don't consider valid the claim.Things are not in black and white. Sadly, i think that it will come a day where online games will go bust.The mentality of winning at any cost, skill be damned, is gaining more and more adepts.
I am sorry, but I am a PAYING customer of said provider!
The Developer/EA should be subscribed to all of such cheat exploits! They are making HUGE profits from their sales, and a measly monthly payment to "said cheats" should be minimal and actually boost their sales if such cheats are dealt with immediately!! If they subscribed to such sites, they would have access to such code immediately to enact counter measures within a very timely manner; if they so cared to do so!
Unfortunately they do not care! They just want to make as much money as they can!! This would be why they don't utilize hardware bans, like Blizzard does! If they were to enforce a hardware ban on cheaters, they would loose any potential future income from said person! Oh... NO!!! Heaven forbid that they lose income from a select few people that want to try and push the boundaries and see what they can get away with.......!!
It seems that is more important than the true loyal customers that love the Battlefield series that the cheaters are driving away with each of the new releases!
As stated, I have been playing FPS since 1999!
Each new release of a Battlefield game, I have fewer and fewer online acquaintances that purchase the new release; straight up due to the rampant cheaters playing!
Either protect your software releases like Blizzard does, or put stat monitors on the servers to remove the few "Suspect" cheaters and then make your decisions on a complete ban afterwards.
Having ZERO ability to remove cheaters from a server is total BS!! Put a voting system in place like previous games! Works much better than 25-30 people leaving a 64 player server; and leaving a bad taste in their mouth at the same time!
