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Then there's PUBG (BattlEye) ruined by rampant cheating.

Then there's EFT (BattlEye) ruined by rampant cheating.

Then there's (was?) Combat Arms (multiple anti cheats over the years) ruined in-part by rampant cheating.

I wouldn't mind _that_ much if anti-cheats actually helped, but they don't.

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If it's online, it's full of cheaters. One of the major problems (with steam) is the price of games in different regions. While a game might me cost me/you 20 dollars, it might sell in say Russia for 4.99. Add a popular steam sell to the mix and now we're buying licenses for pennies on the dollars, maybe even less than a dollar. We can cheat with these accounts or sell them to other cheaters for double the price we paid. Now cheaters can easily access new/fresh steam accounts and never worry about getting banned on their main account.

It's almost sad to see how badly anti-cheat software works. There are entire economies built around cheating. We used to combat this by being able to manage/run our own game servers with staff dedicated to the experience but very few games still support managing your own server. It will always be cat and mouse.

I'm still playing PUBG, though just FPP, and rarely run into what is obviously a cheater - maybe once every two months? But while things have got better, you're right, when things were really, really bad it hurt the game's community terribly.

I do think that anti-cheat helps, if the developers are mostly engaged with it, but it's a long fight over a long time. Most of the strategies to do with 'ban waves' - ie, not banning cheaters immediately - are pragmatic concessions to that reality.

I play PUBG fpp in Asia servers and there's cheaters every game. I get like 3-4 successful ban reports every time I turn on the game.

How is the performance of pubg now a days?

Combat Arms was the worst cheating I have ever seen or heard of, it was actually bonkers

EFT getting ruined by cheating is such a tragedy, too. Most immersive and, well, interesting and unique FPS out there (imo). I still play it though, and only encounter cheaters on certain high loot maps at this point (Reserve and Labs).

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