Friday, January 19th 2018
100,000 PUBG Cheaters to Be Banned Soon, Developer Promises
One thing that phenomenon games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds can boast of is an extraordinary number of active players at any given time (there's been in excess of 3 million active players at one point in time already). This is mostly due to the multiplayer, competitive nature of the game; and where there's competition, there's ways (and ways) of trying to trump it. In a blog post, PUBG developers have taken an open stance on the issue of cheaters, which continues to be one of the most harrowing plagues in PUBG. And the results are in: PUBG has detected "over 100,000 instances of the new pattern related to use of cheat and now we have confirmed that it was clearly an attempt of compromising our game." And for those, players, there's only one solution: "these players will be permanently banned in a single wave."
That more players will be banned than many games have players at any one point in their longevity is already impressive enough. However, PUBG's dedication to maintain its game in a fun, fair state has become a torch of sorts for the company: "We will continue to check the data logs like this even if it means the anti-cheat team has to filter through hundreds of billions of data logs manually. In addition, we are looking into adopting a new solution to detect and ban more cheaters and we have been continuously strengthening our security systems. We have also liaised with investigative authorities in some countries to take legal actions against developers and distributors of cheats. We are determined to take strong measures against them going forward." Et tu, cheaters? Ready to feel the banhammer of righteousness?
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PUBG Blog Post
That more players will be banned than many games have players at any one point in their longevity is already impressive enough. However, PUBG's dedication to maintain its game in a fun, fair state has become a torch of sorts for the company: "We will continue to check the data logs like this even if it means the anti-cheat team has to filter through hundreds of billions of data logs manually. In addition, we are looking into adopting a new solution to detect and ban more cheaters and we have been continuously strengthening our security systems. We have also liaised with investigative authorities in some countries to take legal actions against developers and distributors of cheats. We are determined to take strong measures against them going forward." Et tu, cheaters? Ready to feel the banhammer of righteousness?
43 Comments on 100,000 PUBG Cheaters to Be Banned Soon, Developer Promises
everytime i see publishers attempting to ban cheaters....
Regards,
If you think 100,000 is a lot, it's not. There are undoubtedly many times that amount. It's not 3 million total players, it's 3 million concurrent. It's over 27 million total players: steamspy.com/app/578080
Lost count of # of recoil hackers we have run in to over the last 2-3 month's.
A very annoying phenomenon is teaming. It's quite difficult to survive against two or more teams that have banded together. And I've died to teaming more than all other cheating forms combined. The problem with teaming is that it's not always obvious.
I've just bin playing this game and i learn by everyday. The best gun is'nt good as either. Close ranges a shotgun defenitly pumps everyone to pieces, but on long ranges it's useless. And you cant always find a scope that's 'perfect' for whatever occasion.
I never liked cheating. We used to have a community back in the days where cheaters where a problem. We wrote our own anticheat and did some very clever things on that side to detect cheaters. The moment when aimbots could be hided in a virtual box injecting the game without being detected, it was the end of days for anticheat. You really need DRM matters into the OS or even outside to detect that type of stuff. Since then 'we' gave up and moved on. Cheater ruin the game for everyone.
A good dev/publisher devises systems that keep them out the door entirely, unless the hackers are REALLY good at it. Everyone else is lying to you. Thus far the only one I deem truly capable of that is Blizzard, although Valve also had its moments.