Apex Legends Cheaters Are Now Receiving Permanent Bans on Hardware

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Cheating in Apex Legends has been a big issue on PC and Respawn has now begun to bring down the hammer with permanent hardware bans.

Battle Royale games have encountered a plethora of cheaters over the span of their existence. Especially on PC. The amount of cheating going on during the glory days of PUBG was rampant. Today, the latest popular title, Apex Legends, is next on the list. Last week I wrote about a popular Reddit post making the rounds calling for Respawn to region lock China due to the rampant cheating. Respawn, is now bringing down the hammer with permanent hardware bans to all cheaters.

According to daily esports, several cheat sharing forums have discussed that people have begun getting punished for their cheating ways. As stated above, this is not your normal account suspension. If Respawn catches a player cheating, they will ban both you and your PC from ever playing the game. On top of that, if there is another account created from that same hardware, the account is then flagged and banned within 30 minutes. Someone was able to grab a screenshot of one cheater that was banned and shared the image to Reddit:



Of course, players will find ways to finagle their way around Respawns hardware ban. Cheaters are pretty clever themselves and will anticipate moves made by developers. However, a majority of them will be pretty upset. Daily esports stated that websites will sell some of the cheats that were being used for up to $150, depending on the program. Some of the websites offering these cheats have even stated that the cheats are undetectable, yet purchasers of said software are still being flagged and unable to play Apex on their PC again.

Cheating ruins the fun for players. However, what might be even more important, they ruin the entirety of a game and can drive people away from the game, which is unfair to hardworking developers. Some might say that hardware bans can be a bit harsh, I wouldn’t have it any other way though.



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HiPosted:

This is good. This is how it should be.

CTVPosted:

What I cant imagine is having a banned hardware in a gaming computer and selling the whole tower/laptop to someone who doesnt know its banned for a lower price... tbh this is not the best idea.

LGWPosted:

People cheating on these games deserve the bans. Cya!

OGTrey079Posted:

xGSxCoach Hardware ban? How's that work? How much of my pcs parts I gotta swap out? I have a few miners with lots of different parts.


Components have a unique ID that can be used for allowing access to specific programs or in this case deny access. Been nothing new when I used to code back in 2010 I was using HWID to authenticate users on my programs.

AnimePosted:

I hope they get banned for long term.

xGSxCoachPosted:

Hardware ban? How's that work? How much of my pcs parts I gotta swap out? I have a few miners with lots of different parts.

XBL-ABPosted:

Hardware bans are NOT new.
Theyve been doing this since Fortnite.
Its just a bastard to bypass so in reality, cheating isnt worth it for these games.

Im guessing they implemented some sort of motherboard ID ban similar to how windows is activated on motherboard level instead of software


Most games used HDD bans since. But motherboard? holy crap this is advanced

Two_FacedPosted:

Hux
Mike I wonder if the people on this site who mod the game will be banned!


They will eventually! No cheat is 100% undetectable.


Mods and cheats are completely different. I'm fine with mods as long as they don't ruin the game for other gamers

HuxPosted:

Mike I wonder if the people on this site who mod the game will be banned!


They will eventually! No cheat is 100% undetectable.

Two_FacedPosted:

Mob They really are trying to put a stop to this cheating, permanent bans? A little hard but I guess it's needed.


Not a little hard at all. They need to permanently ban them from this game, every game from the developer, AND publisher. PRESENT, PAST, and FUTURE games. Cheating isn't cool. Cheating is being selfish. I used to play PC this is why I only play Xbox now. Cheaters are literally the scumbags of the earth. Do whatever you want in a private lobby. But until then, don't cheat your way in life. Or else you will always be a cheating lying scumbag.