7.2 Excludes VPNs So Why Not....
KerayZ
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Can we apply this to Arena too? The same top 100 sweatshop arena merc buyers have been plaguing your Arena for years. With the announcement of the new 6* arenas will you disqualify VPN's from ranked rewards as well?
With 7.1 you cracked down on Legend Runs and then allowed them to keep ruining the leaderboard in AQ, AW & Arena.
I see no official announcement on the Arena. Just the roadmap talk. Roadmap did not even mention VPN excluded from 7.2. So will Kabam be transparent on how far the VPN exclusions will go? Will the community ask Kabam to apply this to other competitive areas?
With 7.1 you cracked down on Legend Runs and then allowed them to keep ruining the leaderboard in AQ, AW & Arena.
I see no official announcement on the Arena. Just the roadmap talk. Roadmap did not even mention VPN excluded from 7.2. So will Kabam be transparent on how far the VPN exclusions will go? Will the community ask Kabam to apply this to other competitive areas?
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But maybe a limiting factor could be that Kabam will maunally check the top-scores for VPN users for the 7.2 legends run and weed them out. That's kinda time-consuming and to do it for manually for every arena could be hard.
This isn't to say there shouldn't be an arena crackdown, I just don't think it's possible in this way.
The situations I can think of that someone would have to use a VPN can’t be much of a player base.
Being able to do that for the 7.2 run will still take some time, but the amount of people going for that will be far less than the amount they would have to go through in the arena, let alone twice per week for the arena. And it's not just the top 100 they have to check, they have to look at each account after the removal of any potential cheaters/mercs/VPN users to make sure that the ones that now make the cut are also playing fairly.
Now if by some means they do make an automated flawless system that can do this, they absolutely should implement it. But I honestly don't have THAT much faith in them being able to do so.
Second, people act like detecting all VPN activity is simple. A lot of VPN detection is done by looking at common IP ranges from well known VPN providers. So, people should realize that cheaters can even get around this with little problem by simply standing up their own VPN. Cheaters will always find a way to cheat. In fact, Kabam may not really be detecting VPNs insomuch as unusual usage patterns originating from an IP.
VPN is for my security. I’ll gladly shut it off, but it has to apply for everyone. I did a legends run for 7.1 and fell short. That’s the way things are. I’ll try again. But you can’t tell people they can’t qualify for certain rewards if they use a VPN. The poster from the Middle East - he can’t grind arena and do a legends run? How is that fair?
Just because there are mercs doesn’t mean every security feature that people use for real life should be shut off. I would say then your email needs to be verified. Then your account should be with a credit card (no charge) in order to verify you’re a real user. It can go ok forever.