14 DAY TRIAL // Apex Legends developers have just banned over 770K players from all over the world in an effort to curb the cheating in online matches.
The success of Apex Legends took a lot of people by surprise, especially since it was released without even an official announcement. The game just showed up one day in the Origin client, and the news about the game was spread online by players.
Fortunately for Respawn Entertainment, Apex Legends proved to be an incredible success and now prides itself with a base of more than 50 million players worldwide. It was released at a time when Fortnite, PUBG, and the entire battle royale genre was at its peak.
As you can imagine, with such a large player base, it's inevitable to get some cheaters, and it's the developer's job to make sure that they can't do much harm. From the looks of it, cheating became a major problem in Apex Legends, and that's evident from the huge number of people banned in a single swoop.
Don't mess with the system
It's unclear what type of protection Apex Legends employs, but the developers seem to have incredible control over the game, and they can easily spot problems. They are also not all that inclined to explain what the people were doing or how they are catching them, as they feel that cheaters and cheat makers might find other ways.
The new tool implemented by Respawn Entertainment help them ban over 770K players, prevent over 300K account creations, and ban over 4,000 cheat seller accounts (spammers) in the last 20 days, according to a post from developers on Reddit.
"While we can’t share details on what we’re doing so as to not give a head’s up to the cheat makers, what we can say is that we’re attacking this from every angle, from improvements to detecting cheaters, bolstering resources and tools, to improving processes and other sneaky things to combat sellers and cheaters," explained the devs.
This is just the first wave, and more drastic measures are coming. The latest push shows that matches on PC impacted by cheaters or spammers have been reduced by over half, in less than a month.