Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment have committed to tackling the ongoing cheating issue in the game.
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Respawn Entertainment have committed to tackling the cheating in ranked, however the Apex community have responded to the announcement with their own hashtag.
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Cheating has seemed to become an ongoing issue in the higher tiers of Apex Legends, it has soon became quite a controversial topic within the community.
Respawn Entertainment took to Twitter to reveal how they plan to tackle this issue, the post read “The Respawn team is pursuing several options to crack down on cheating in @playapex”.
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The Tweet from the devs stated that they were planning on “Hiring more people to focus on manual bans”, “Developing more tools to automatically detect and stop DDOS attacks” and “Investigating ways to more quickly catch and remove cheaters from games”.
The Respawn team is pursuing several options to crack down on cheating in @playapex:
— Respawn (@Respawn) June 28, 2021
⚒️ Hiring more people to focus on manual bans
🔧 Developing more tools to automatically detect and stop DDOS attacks
🛑 Investigating ways to more quickly catch and remove cheaters from games
The announcement seemed to be received well by players who are tired of cheaters running riot in the game, it didn’t take long for the hashtag #SaveApexRanked to begin trending.
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The hashtag began being used by lots of popular streamers and professional players however director of communications at Respawn Entertainment, Ryan K. Rigney stepped up to say he agreed with the most part of the communities responses however disagreed with some of the language used.
He Tweeted “There are very valid complaints in here—we’ve gotta crack down on the cheating and make real progress. Actions are needed, not just words. But I’m kinda bummed to read the last line. Idk why you’d reframe an effort to communicate as an attempt to “fool” players. Unproductive.”
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsThere are very valid complaints in here—we've gotta crack down on the cheating and make real progress. Actions are needed, not just words.
— Ryan K. Rigney (@RKRigney) June 28, 2021
But I'm kinda bummed to read the last line. Idk why you'd reframe an effort to communicate as an attempt to "fool" players. Unproductive. pic.twitter.com/HTj9ZbvLkz
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It’s comforting to know that the devs are working on a fix for this issue, hopefully it will be put into practice sooner rather than later.
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