PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Responds To Stream Sniping Ban

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Just a few days ago, some brief drama swept the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds community when a player was banned for supposedly "stream sniping," an action where a player checks a streamer's channel to find their location and use that information to their advantage. After the player in question was effectively banned, sides began forming on whether or not the action was justified, and the team behind the game has now responded to give their side of the story.

"I have seen the data the community team looked at before issuing the ban, and the ban was justified," a tweet from the creative director of the game read in response to the situation. "The tracking data shows that the player in question tried to join the same lobby as their target multiple times."

If you didn't catch the situation when it initially happened and are playing catch-up to get all the details, the actual banning was reported on recently where we went into detail on what exactly stream sniping is and what the game's developers can do to prevent it from happening. The player by the name of Lotoe was banned for the offense after killing two streamers in-game who said that he was stream sniping after they were killed by him more than once. Lotoe refuted the claims, saying that he doesn't even use the streaming service Twitch, but the ban went through regardless, even though the game's developers Bluehole admitted that they couldn't be 100 percent sure that the user was stream sniping.



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Source: http://comicbook.com/gaming/2017/07/30/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-responds-to-stream-sniping-ban/

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SilkyPosted:

Agree with this as cheating is cheating.

ZydrinPosted:

I ADVERTISE my stream in lobby to communicate with people and make the stream interactive and never had an issue with this.

KatsumiPosted:

Wow. A very smart way to cheat but cheating nonetheless. If the tracking data supports it i feel the ban is justified.

gecPosted:

Should ban them more often, stream sniping is dumb

9ntyPosted:

Stream sniping must be the most annoying thing that streamers have to put up with, and with other people stream sniping them. Just ruins their fun, the game experience. You must be a douch if you wanted to ruin a streamer fun.

DeftonesPosted:

I believe this is the first game I've seen people being punished for this which is great. Nice work

SimpPosted:

Nice to see that they are actually concerned and respond to people about bans unlike other companies. They banned the user and actually had evidence to prove he was doing something wrong. Props to them.

TOXICPosted:

Yep, could not agree more with this.

MajPosted:

I agree with their decision to ban the player. It is a form of cheating & must be punished!

EchoPosted:

I never thought this could be done because of delay's and all that stuff but ban's shouldn't be handed out due to no actual proof.