With the development of technology, games today are appearing more and more third-party software, in other words, the problem of hacking cheats is becoming more and more sophisticated and unpredictable. One of the most typical “victims” of cheat hacks can be mentioned PUBG – the game that was at the top of the world but then went downhill not long after because of the devastation of cheat hacks.
Just recently, the developer of the game Krafton shared a shocking statistic when weekly, its anti-cheat team imposed a permanent ban on an average of 60,000 – 100,000 accounts for related to the distribution and use of cheat hacking software. However, that doesn’t seem to be enough. As noted from the players, they still encounter a lot of negative problems, adversely affecting their experience. Analysis from Krafton shows that ranked cheat accounts are often divided into two categories, with up to 85% of accounts having been permanently banned before PUBG switched to free release.
In addition, this publisher also admits that it is almost impossible to prevent the source of the problem as hackers, even if permanently banned, can still create other accounts and continue the fraud. mine. This loop goes on endlessly, and the experience of genuine players continues to be severely affected. Although it has limited players to level 80 to be able to compete in ranked, this does not seem to affect hackers too much. Incredibly, this developer has finally announced that he is going to crack down on cheating problems at the root of the problem.
Accordingly, the anti-cheat team has begun to develop an AI with stricter rules on hacking cheats. Immediately, the campaign was effective when the number of permanently banned accounts was 3 times more than before. In addition, the fact that the PUBG cheat hacking software being advertised on many websites has begun to increase in price also shows that Krafton’s prevention is promoting a certain effectiveness. Following Krafton, big game companies like Ubisoft and Blizzard are also gradually applying AI to their anti-cheat and hopefully, the results will come soon in the near future.