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Hacker banwave hits apex legends. Hilarity ensues.
- Thread starter qaz
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The prevalence of this problem is dwarfed by the prevalence of cheaters/hackers in online gaming, to the point where it approaches near zero significance.
Can happen with consoles too, why jailbroken/hacked consoles are usually kept offline until workarounds are found, as it'll get banned.
Because there are ways around it. There are no full proof bans unless it's a forum like here with long waits to get an account.
I think putting value in accounts helps though like how MMOs do seasonal items etc
Respawn banning Apex players for cheating on console doesn't happen because there's no way to hack a console and play online with it.
What kind of receipts are you getting from secondhand purchases that validates it isn't the same person?
Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at, lol.
I just really dislike these people that cheat in multiplayer games so part of me is like "Serves you right, butt-face!" I really hope there aren't people out there getting like... false-flagged and banned because the unfortunately bought the wrong used mobo from someone who cheated, though.
No yeah I was agreeing with you, I should have said good justification haha. I'm the same way, if you wanna cheat and fuck up someone else's time, then ya get what's coming to you. Completely agreed for sure. I remember back in the days of Modern Warfare 2, .....the skywalking tubers man lol. Woulda killed to see some bans dulled out back in those days ;).
Motherboard maybe. I don't think a GPU/CPU would do it. But yeah I guess.
It's not a cottage industry it's a fully fledged million (approaching billion) dollar industry.
People are hacking games on subscription or hack/battle pass
Would be great if one day DICE would do something like this. BFV on PC is fucking dogshit now and it really doesn't seem like anything is being done.
With expensive adapters, yes. Never heard about someone getting banned for it though.
That's hilarious. I wish we could see a video of their faces every time a new account gets banned.
I really hate people. These are the same fuckers that park in two spots. The same ones that don't flush the toilet at work.
I guess that's why I don't feel bad about it. I mean these people are actively making the experience worse for everyone else, unless I guess they start hacking too just to keep up.
Then they tell two friends...
My sheltered existence honestly only thought of like Newegg returns when I posted that haha.
Hmm.. could that lead to someone buying a used "banned" component..? :/
Edit seems so. Thats so fucked up.
I'm surprised they owned up to it. I expected something along the lines of "help, I got banned and didn't do anything wrong".
Yeah I just can't understand what's so rewarding about it. I'm sure they think it's funny at first but after weeks of it?
It is definitely a thing for free-to-play games, but there are two issues concerning it in general: (1) hardware ID spoofing, and (2) that it limits repeat-sales of a game and/or its in-game purchases. People who can afford to cheat can likely afford to (and will) spend money on the game--if not once, several times.
The upside of this is the corollary: cheaters tend to lose lots of money. See /r/vac_porn as an example.
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This, it gives me life. Run into it all the time in Smite. Using trainers to increase movement speed, attack damage and defense. Love when they still get destroyed.
This, it gives me life. Run into it all the time in Smite. Using trainers to increase movement speed, attack damage and defense. Love when they still get destroyed.
Well most hardware bans are suspected to be based around the combination of specific parts and MOBO to give you a unique kind of signiture, or close to one. Which probably helps to avoid false positives when a hacker sells their parts. But I'm no expert and Blizz/EA/Game companies haven't disclosed their methods.
And if worse comes to worse, you could try and contact support with a receipt. I'm sure CS would understand in that case.
If you buy a banned piece of computer hardware or console you were scammed and there are often remedies available to you that aren't 'don't ban cheaters.'
Where did anyone say "don't ban the cheaters"?
Don't put words into people's mouth if you have no arguments to make.
Buying banned consoles was a plague back in the 360 days and more often than not you had little recourses against the seller, even reputable ones.
From what I understand/think. It's a control/power thing. I'm not equating it to rape. But the reasons can be similar.
I figured it was implied when you effectively said 'thing bad'
sorry for the misunderstanding.
I did have an argument though, and that was 'the very small number of problems caused in the secondary sale market caused by hardware bans is a necessary sacrifice to stem the much larger number of problems caused by the tidal wave of cheating taking place in popular online games.'
I'm open to some kind of middle ground here, like a petition mechanism to get hardware un-banned but I don't want it to be trivial.
Think Ive only met one hacker in the game in the past week. Which is remarkedly much better than before when there were at least two or three in a single day.