Hackers

Let me know if you need materials. The toxic behavior has been well documented and there's a trove of material (videos, screenshots, dms that got leaked, discord channels that got leaked, everything a reporter would love to have).

Nailed it.

This will go down in history as one of the biggest shadow trolls of all time.

You assisted in creating all of this chaos and continue to fuel it.  The fact you can even post here is kicking players in the balls after EA spit in their face.

Consequences be damned, I'm turning in this pile of crap on you to my editor.  Maybe they'll run the story, maybe they won't as EA is pretty immune to negative press with their newfound benefactors...  But if you knew anything about the game you have had the single-biggest-hand in destroying, you'd know some of us believe in the truth.

We believe in heroes.

And you sir, are no hero.

I take it you mean these guys?

This is understandable however, given this issue has been present for a number of years and has worsened since the uplift in player counts, the question becomes why should You have to report this many hackers per day? Surely the number of complaints and reports has triggered the minimum bar for investigation at this stage? 

Most teams of EA scale set a relatively low bar for an investigation to be triggered and having players provide unpaid "bug reports" daily, takes away from your enjoyment of the game you have paid for. 

I'm not saying do not follow the protocol. My point is at which point do player interactions with the company result in the mere investigation? Looking at these threads you'd think someone in their community team would have raised this as a concern months ago, giving the team ample time to find a solution, or bare minimum respond openly to the player base raising the concerns. 

Similar to BF5 they don't need the team directly involved.  EA have enough resources to apply a server side fix and implement monitoring on the PC side of things. They've simply chosen not to address the concerns on this being an older title. 

If they've even looked at the reports, they will have noted the number of players over a prolonged period, identified that this uplift in players is a spike, and opted not to commit to addressing it. 

It's hard to believe that someone their side hasn't looked investigated by simply booting the game and watching the carnage in GA and Supremacy modes. They even have the telemetry to see which players are more likely to be the culprits, by either looking at average score per game, or simply looking at the telemetry of users in matches to see that non standard interactions are taking place. 

The cheats used by these players are actively posted online, giving the team a guide to what players are doing and how the a network side solution to an older game can be applied. 

There have surely been enough reports of suspicious behaviour at this time to allow for a wider investigation, and have a small team from their network tech group apply develop and apply a fix. 

Poor stewardship of their portfolio and back catalogue.

Can confirm reporting doesn't do much. If you managed to get the account banned they'll just get another one and start again. 

Hello Cakee100​,

The only thing you can do is to report suspected hackers, everything else will be handled by the EA ToS team.

Reporting them through the app works, as does contacting EA support through email.

I use malicious compiance with them and report between 25-50 hackers daily.  Do not believe people who say nothing will be done - the anticheat the game uses requires a report - so use it.

EA don't care and the developers have all spread out, a lot to different studios and companies, so sadly there's no way to stop it, it seems.