The creators of H1Z1 have now pointed out their successes against hackers in a post and have made advertising for a hacker site.
Studio head John Smedley addressed the players of H1Z1. This is usually done via reddit. Smedley apparently identified a problem: They work hard against hackers and cheaters, 5000 have already been banned, almost everyone gets caught, they are close to perfection. But an honest player who is then killed by a cheater in H1Z1 doesn’t even notice and screams about how infested with cheaters H1Z1 is.
Smedley promises to communicate their successes more clearly in the future. Anyone who submits a ticket should also receive a confirmation that this “loser” has been banned, he writes. But that takes time. And then he recommends that people check out the hacker site soundso to see how much the cheaters complain about H1Z1, and they should compare it with the subforums of other games.
On the hacker forum soundso, they naturally enjoy such attention. They have opened a “Smedley is a fan of us” thread and wonder what they did to deserve such PR. Cynics even speculate that Smedley wants to give them new customers who will start cheating, get caught, and have to buy the game again.
In the meantime, the name of the hacker site has incidentally disappeared from Smedley’s post.
Mein MMO says: As refreshing as Smedley often is in his public presentation and as amusing as the somewhat informal style stands out from a sea of PR talk by other CEOs… linking directly to a hacker forum was not exactly a shining moment. They should have stuck with this video.
