It’s fair to say that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been one of the most successful games of 2017, but with that level of success comes the undesirables. You know the kind: the aimbots, the hackers and the scumbags. Fortunately, PUBG devs Bluehole and the BattlEye security system are on the case.
It was announced through BattlEye on Twitter that over 100,000 PUBG accounts were banned this past weekend, taking the full total of banned accounts to 700,000. PUBG has had over 20 million sales so far, and this is before the release on Xbox One, but it means that 3.5% of PUBG accounts have been given the boot.
After releasing new security updates last week, we banned almost 100,000 PUBG accounts this past weekend totaling over 700,000. That being said, fighting cheaters will always remain WIP and never be solved completely, especially in the most popular Battle Royale game.
— BattlEye (@TheBattlEye) November 14, 2017
In a game that consistently manages to draw hundreds of thousands, if not millions of concurrent players, to know that 3.5% of those players are cheaters means a lot of work. It’s good to see that Bluehole are taking a hardline stance to combat this rising tide of cheating.
But, it gets better. According to a salt-infused thread on reddit, it would appear as though Bluehole have implemented a cheater’s matchmaking system. Basically, instead of banning their account instantly, they’re now being placed into games with fellow cheaters, essentially to find out who is the biggest shitlord of them all. One particularly salty commenter says “Same and everytime I get killed it’s some gods who seem to hit me on every shot, while I’m running around like The Flash”. You can almost hear the littlest violin playing in the background.
Of course, Bluehole can’t officially confirm if they’ve implemented a change like this into their matchmaking system, because of the security involved, but if it’s true then it could be an effective means of dealing with cheaters. Nothing better than a taste of your own medicine. Still, whether they’re banning or quarantining cheaters, at least the normal players can play in relative peace. For now, anyway.
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