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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:Get rekt cheaters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed. Blocking is too nice. The better way is to detect cheaters and subtly modify their game so they go on a downhill course. Loss at every turn, and a hilarious sight for real players. After a while they notice, and consider the cheat sw 'broken'.

  2. Xbox Cross Network Play by HalAtWork · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Doesn't sound like such a good idea anymore if it will bring cheating to the console experience...

    Hopefully in cross-network games you can choose to play with console players only.

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  3. Re:That is a LOT of cheaters by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember once when someone was complaining on developer forums with much the same line of crap until one of the developers or community managers there posted and went into details about the programs the cheater was running and even pointed out another forum where the cheater (using the same username no less) had been posting asking after cheat programs.

    I think companies do it this way because they know these little shits will just buy another copy of the game, so more money for them, but I think it would be better to just quarantine all of the cheaters together so they can only play with each other. The only way out of that is to play for as many hours as you were cheating without using any at all to learn why it isn't appropriate to cheat.

  4. Better solution by qbast · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just put cheaters in a game with other cheaters. No banning necessary and everybody is happy.

  5. Re:That is a LOT of cheaters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's the same reason bullies bully. They only feel good when on top, and they lack the empathy that makes you feel on top when helping others. So the only way to feel on top is to dominate others, and the surest way to dominate others is in an unfair fight.

    If you're interested in the science behind this, find the lecture "What makes a bully" on youtube.

  6. Re:Get rekt cheaters by AmazingRuss · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why not just cohort all the cheaters together, and let them play by their rules?