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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Blocks 322,000 Cheaters (pcgamer.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the first-person-cheaters dept.

The new anti-cheating system installed in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been banning more than 6,000 suspected cheaters every day. An anonymous reader quotes PC Gamer: That's according to BattlEye, which polices the game's servers. Its official account tweeted yesterday that between 6,000 and 13,000 players are getting their marching orders daily. On Saturday morning, it had cracked down on nearly 20,000 players within the previous 24-hour period... In total, the service has blocked 322,000 people, double the number that was reported by the game's creator Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, last month.
Yesterday the game had more than 2.2 million concurrent players.

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  1. Re:That is a LOT of cheaters by Smidge204 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sure that if you survey the people who've been banned, there is a near 100% false-positive rate.

    I have it on good authority that nobody has ever been banned from any game for actually cheating; it's always a mod they forgot to uninstall (cosmetic only, of course!), or some innocuous program they have running in the background, or someone hacked their account...
    =Smidge=

  2. Re:That is a LOT of cheaters by Xyrus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why bother cheating? It's a game. It's like saying, "Woohoo, I won the marathon!" while driving a hemi.

    Seriously, if you have to cheat in a video game to make yourself feel 733t, you need to re-examine your priorities.

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  3. Re:That is a LOT of cheaters by Bruinwar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I couldn't agree more. But I don't think it's about feeling errrrr 733t?... it's about being an little punk asshole. Like in the MMOs where they grief players for fun. Like completely taking over a town in WoW killing everyone over & over, including the NPCs, so no quests can be ran. Some people really seem to enjoy it.

    I shouldn't be surprised how many people cheat. Back in Quake 2 my friends & I ran a server. At one point we finally had to add anti-cheat & dang we caught a lot. Many people I knew for a long time & thought they were damn good. ICQ was burning up that night. These guys got shamed bad, how embarrassing.

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  4. Re:Ban them from all PVP on Steam by nasch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Draconian penalties are not particularly effective in preventing bad behavior, whether it's crime or cheating. What works is increasing the likelihood of getting caught.