PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is plagued by cheaters, like every online game. However, cheating has come to an end for 25,000 of them.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is an extremely successful battle royale online shooter that has sold over 4 million copies and has left competitors like H1Z1 King of the Kill and Ark: Survival Evolved lagging behind on Steam. And all of this still as an unfinished early access title!
Of course, with so many players, all sorts of nasty cheaters and fraudsters congregate on the servers of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but 25,000 players have unfortunately met their demise due to cheating.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – Hunting Cheaters with BattlEye
Thanks to the anti-cheat technology BattlEye (which is also used in Ark and Rainbow Six Siege, among others), the team led by Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene was able to identify over 25,000 players who used forbidden cheat software and ban them from the game.
However, the fight against cheaters is an eternal arms race, and with over 4 million players, 25,000 banned cheaters are unfortunately just a drop in the bucket. But even such a relatively small number of banned fraudsters is ultimately better than nothing at all.
What do you think about the cheating situation in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds? Is it worse than in comparable titles, or is cheating still manageable? And do you think that anti-cheat technologies like BattlEye are really effective if only “25,000” cheaters are caught after 3 months?
With a total player count of over 4 million, there must be many more fraudsters at work who still carry out their trade unscathed. Let us know your opinion in the comments!
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