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Escape From Tarkov names over 4000 players banned for alleged cheatingSupposedly to show “justice has been served”
Supposedly to show “justice has been served”
The Escape From Tarkov Twitter accounttweeted outa list of “over 4,000 cheaters” over a week ago. You can see the list for yourselfon Google Sheets.
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“We want honest players to see the nicknames of cheaters to know that justice has been served and the cheater who killed them in a raid has been punished and banned,” Battlestate Games’ Dmitri Ogorodnikovtold TechCrunchyesterday.
I am not wild about companies summarily releasing lists of alleged cheaters without recourse or oversight, although this is probably mostly harmless given the usernames are mostly things like “Z-zzzzzz” and “N0_KILL_ME”. Gamer names, in other words, which are throwaway and easily changed. For that same reason, this list is also arguably useless - it’s barely a deterrent to actual cheaters, and a list of names doesn’t really do anything more to convince me that a cheating problem is being addressed than just knowing the number of bans.
That Battlestate felt this was necessary is indicative of what a big problem cheating remains to multiplayer games. The developers ofOverwatch,Apex Legendsand Call Of Duty all announce occasional ban figures, and several such asEpic,BungieandUbisofthave sued profit-making cheatmakers for large damage payouts.
