Hackers

Additional Reminder: KYBER and it's founders started and continue the hacking push.  They are internet-savvy and have flooded the forums with nonsensical game issues to bury threads like these.

The EA Community manager needs to answer to many of us who paid full price for this game.

Why are threads that post a solution to the hacking issue immediately banned?

Why are well-known streamers that doxx journalists allowed to continue to troll-post?

How closely is EA working with Kyber, knowing it was one of their own that leaked the code?

Recently reported 2 seperate matches with video links to obvious "teams" of cheaters.  (Flying, 4 Vaders ect)

EA banned them, but responded with a similar email saying that no action could  be taken.

Reminder - this game is still selling as a AAA on Steam for $50-$70 USD.

This does not require the entire dev team. EA have a game security team that can look at the code and work with an engineer to find a permanent solution. This is a lobby and multiplayer issue, not something that the game team specifically need to look at.

They have the resources, but allow us all to believe this is something they cannot fix. They choose not to, citing costs, yet they have ample teams working across network games who could be assigned. 

They choose not to as the business model is better served by making new games, encouraging players to migrate. But to what?

Would you spend your money on a new game every year, knowing that cheaters will exploit it and ruin the enjoyment for the sake of 'because we can'?

It's better to avoid playing all of EA's titles until they can demonstrate how seriously they take the player experience in fixing issues like this. 

Further to this, looking at the BF6 issues being reported, this is a disturbing DICE trend. We need to call out DICE for their management of network games, given the number of complaints about cheating. 

Granted, this is an industry-wide issue, but we can start by calling out the individual publishers and co-developers of these games.

So again - what is being done here?  Account blocks are obviously not working. 

New issues now include post sector control lockouts. What are we doing here?  

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.