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Kabam distraction tactics
Noobsaibot
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Hi,the recent problem with wheel of fate completely covered the whole third party banning problem they said some accounts have been unbanned and they are still on investigation process to unban the others but for those who got ban for 7 days it's going to end in a day and after that there is no use as their account will be blackmarked and if this error happens again they will be banned for 30 days and after the new event people totally forgot and there are some people in forum just blindly troll or blame people without knowing whether they are innocent or not , so guys .. please look into it also the ticket reply is always same and seems automatic
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Kabams goal.was to have this content be good to where people have liked it. They didn't make it bad on purpose to distract you from people who broke ToS by downloading the game from unauthorized sources.
There's no cover up or anything to distract. The people who weren't banned now have something to focus on (WoF being terrible) and they are outnumbering the ban posts.
Netmarble gets the money, not Kabam.
Also, jokes about Miike vs Mike aside, please do not spam posts, of any kind.
If he showed up in here and didn't address it, chances are there is nothing to say. Its not like he is holding the information for ransom.
It really looks like distraction tactics - first couple of bans removed but a lot of them left, than WoF... really dissapointing behaviour.
The primary way people cheat in this game (outside of using mercs to run content) is with modified game clients that allow for the player to manipulate fights. There's really only one way to detect this: you can see if the game client does something the authorized game client wouldn't do.
The problem is what are you specifically going to look for? You can look for obvious stuff, like a player who manages to end a BG fight in ten seconds, and experience will tell you that those fights cannot end so fast, so the only way you could see that would be if the player was using a modified game client. If the cheater is an idiot, we can spot them that way, and have been spotting them that way for a while now.
But cheaters are getting smarter. They aren't always doing completely idiotic things. If they cheat in a way that isn't blatantly impossible, how can we tell if they are cheating, or just extremely good at playing the game? There is no way. We cannot rely on cheaters always doing the impossible, we have to stop them by trying to detect the modified game clients they are using.
But that's also a problem, because we can't just ask the game client "hey, are you modified?" Any modified game client can be modified to answer "no." We cannot trust any game client Kabam did not make and distribute itself. If the game client has been changed in any way, however small, we can't trust anything it says. Which means we can't trust it will tell us if someone is cheating with it.
The only way to eliminate cheaters from the game is to eliminate all unauthorized game clients from the game, and all unauthorized supply chains for the game client. If Kabam allows even one path to using modified game clients, all the cheaters will use it. It doesn't matter if players who don't cheat also use it, or even need it to play the game. No one is saying that everyone who uses such things is cheating. But this is a hole in the security of the game you can drive a truck through, and it has to be closed.
My biggest concern in BGs is the prevalence of soft-modders, especially among established accounts.
Competition in video games is unbridled, and it's foolish to trust anyone not to cheat, especially if they think they can get away with it.
I look back at stats and my experience tells me there is no practical way my opponent could've finished with the stats they finished with, but is it impossible?
No.
So how do you deal with it?
Just let them get away with it?
No.
You have to stop them at the source.
@DNA3000
But are You OK with the fact that innocent players who only used official sources got hit in the "crossfire"?
But we still live in the real world, and in the real world our choices are let cheaters cheat, and get increasingly better at cheating, until eventually everyone just accepts that everyone cheats and eventually everyone will be cheating, and the game ends up with nothing but cheaters playing it, or we aggressively try to remove them from the game, even knowing that mistakes will happen.
If I was in charge and that was the decision presented to me, I would do what Kabam did. I would hopefully have done it better than that, but that's not relevant. In the long run, cheating is the far more existential threat.
Also, the idea that most of the people banned were banned incorrectly? I would bet cash that was not the case.