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Two weeks ago, the folks at PUBG Corp announced that they would be taking down 100,000 cheaters in a single ban-wave. This move was applauded by much of the player base, but the final number of in-game bans in January turned out to be much more impressive. According to BattlEye, PUBG's anti-cheat software, over one million accounts were banned over the last month.
Over the last month alone, BattlEye banned over 1,044,000 cheaters in PUBG. While this is good news, the software makers warn that “unfortunately, things continue to escalate”. As PUBG gains in popularity, the number of cheaters has also risen substantially.
The number of bans in January is actually a very sharp rise. At the end of December, BattlEye announced that 1.5 million players had been caught out by the anti-cheat system since PUBG's initial launch earlier in 2017. This has now risen to 1 million bans in a single month, which just goes to show how popular and rife cheating can be in PUBG.
Fortunately, it seems like the anti-cheat system is getting better at detecting cheaters and catching them out. The new replay system will also help, allowing players to watch their game back and see where they were shot from. This makes it much easier to spot and report legitimate cheaters in-game.
KitGuru Says: I've noticed the number of complaints around PUBG cheaters going down on our Facebook page over the last month or so. Do you guys still play PUBG regularly? Is the anti-cheat system doing a good enough job at the moment?
Credit where it’s due, good to see a dev that isn’t shying away from handing out life-time bans.
Shame they cant do hardware ID bans to stop players from creating a new (steam) account and getting back in game. So really in all essence HAS the amount of actual cheaters gone down. No. Whats happening is the same cheaters are just coming back into game and making it look as if the amount of ppl cheating in PUBG has risen. Oh they really do need to region lock china that would crack that percentage down big time.
The plus side is that the users would have to re-purchase the game. Best solution for customers and the developers would be to quickly detect and ban these people. If they end up paying $30 per PUBG round, just means more money to keep on developing it.
Its sad that people need the urge to cheat on this game, makes unfair for those who play the game the hard way, using cheats on these type of games just rips the fun right out if it
Yeah, at some point I think these cheaters may begin to feel the pinch and either give up and move on or play straight. You don’t just piss away $30 every few days!
all PC games are being hacked the problem is that we have cheat sites which are saying than no members have been caught using there cheat software for battlefield 1 and PUBG since the release date of the game and many other games to boot ,so what needs to be done is for game developers to go after these cheat sites and have them closed down i think the developers of world of warcraft did this ,all game developers need to team up and have this happen before these cheat sites kill off PC gaming for good
Full stops. Please use them!
It doesn’t really say a lot for the future of the game to be honest. I played about 7 hours of it, and stopped when I noticed how many cheaters there are. I haven’t played it since. It’s pointless to play when people are cheating so much…a complete waste of time.