How Bad is Cheating?
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Haven’t played ranked in weeks. Heard it got bad. Are the rumors true?
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More than 40K are subscribed to a cheat program that was recently exposed.
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It's a problem, and one they need to address, but it's also not nearly as rampant as some would have you believe.
Far too many extrapolate their narrow experience to game wide experiences, sadly.
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Really bad. Played 2 tonight alone. Done with this trash online until this [censored] gets addressed which is likely never. On to RTTS. 400 rated players DO NOT take pitches a centimeter off the plate and dot every pitch. Been playing this game a long time and I know [censored] well when I see BS.
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It's a problem, and one they need to address, but it's also not nearly as rampant as some would have you believe.
Far too many extrapolate their narrow experience to game wide experiences, sadly.
What are you talking about haha. The discord has 40k members with subscriptions. How many players are even on the leaderboards about WS level lmao? Much less than 40k.
Still denying people cheat at this point is hilarious.
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It's a problem, and one they need to address, but it's also not nearly as rampant as some would have you believe.
Far too many extrapolate their narrow experience to game wide experiences, sadly.
Yes it is as rampant. Do you even play online? If so, you are blind.
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@NotesOfJohn_PSN yeah its not a problem if you are hard stuck on allstar.
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It's a problem, and one they need to address, but it's also not nearly as rampant as some would have you believe.
Far too many extrapolate their narrow experience to game wide experiences, sadly.
While I doubt all 40k people in the discord are actively cheating...
as of yesterday 178k people had Santander. 40K people in the discord. Let that sink in -
Best estimates for online play put it around 5-25k players online at the same time, quite a big spread and depends on time of day. Total player base estimates are 2-3 million players per annual cycle, with an estimate of 10-25% playing online.
Since SDS doesn’t publish any data, these are based on industry speculation and sports gaming in general. While 40k people in a discord is a lot, it’s not like they’re all online 24/7 at the same time.
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I23SAVAGE23I_XBL Can you read?
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@DemIsE4_XBL Another too busy throwing a tantrum to actually read.
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@SavageSteve74_PSN Ah, some common sense amongst the hysteria.
Sadly though, people are so in their feels they refuse to acknowledge any nuance on this one.
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I just looked at the patch notes on the companion app and a portion of it talks about cheating. what do u guys think do u think sds is just smoke blowing saying there gonna do something hoping the people just cut it out. Or do u think bans will actually be handed out? and we will finally have a healthy happy community again
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I think they are largely hoping people just stop cheating which will not happen. They may ban people but it won’t be nearly enough. I think it’s past the point of no return for this year and maybe something they can better address next year, if this year doesn’t tank the entire game for good. It’s sad but lots of things have led to this point including incompetence, laziness, and the current state of online gaming win at all costs mentality.
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I think they are largely hoping people just stop cheating which will not happen. They may ban people but it won’t be nearly enough. I think it’s past the point of no return for this year and maybe something they can better address next year, if this year doesn’t tank the entire game for good. It’s sad but lots of things have led to this point including incompetence, laziness, and the current state of online gaming win at all costs mentality.
Yea, if this isn't addressed the game is going to tank big time. By addressed I mean permanent bans (hardware would be much better) for EVERYONE doing it. Didn't they give out permanent bans last year to people playing bots? This is 1000x worse.
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@DemIsE4_XBL Another too busy throwing a tantrum to actually read.
LOL. That is not a tantrum.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN yeah idk they aren’t gonna stop until they see legitimate penalties being handed out. Can give them as many warning or slaps on the wrist as u want it ain’t gonna do nothing.
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So PUBG console has a massive issue with mnk players. MNK is not approved on pubg but can be done on certain devices and gives you a massive advantage. It finally got so bad they couldn't ignore and their solution was 100 year bans for a few but majority got 3 day bans. Once those 3 day bans expired they were right back on the game doing it again and no other bans have been done. This has been several months ago. Warnings do absolutely nothing.
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That’s my biggest issue. Lack of transparency and lack of a sense of urgency. It’s clear a lot of us are much more passionate about the welfare of this game than they are.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN yeah I just want a healthy online game.
