Because they have abandoned the NFSNL game.
I am a very active player, especially in UGR mode, unfortunately that game mode is full of Infinite Nitro Hackers, as we can do for those players to receive a ban.
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Ben&Darham is a very bad example, as he is a legit player, definitely not a cheater.
However, you are right - there are a lot cheaters and Slingshot seems to be doing nothing about that. There seem to be even more cheaters then before. Those are reasons I stopped completely bothering the UGR and my goal is to get Rivals, that is all.
