[tpxl]

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.

[bastardoperator]

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.

[DizzyDoo]

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.

[lifeformed]

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.

[vips7L]

How is the performance of pubg now a days?

[FearlessNebula]

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

[remarkEon]

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).