Update on the Fight Against Cheaters: May 2nd

The last few weeks have been busy for the anti-cheat program. On the Battlegrounds front, we have continued to improve our cheat detection. Thanks to our data team, we also have a brand new tool to help us in our manual review of borderline cases. This tool has helped us identify some high-ranked cheaters that had previously slipped through our other detection methods.

We also took action on the over 1800 accounts that were carried by cheaters in Incursions. These players received an escalating ban and were stripped of their Legends titles. Additionally, these players had 7* shards removed from their accounts equivalent to the maximum value of rewards they could earn completing a Threat Level 6 run (this includes both the Zone rewards and the rewards from the meta event).

Why 7* shards? Because removing the dozens of different types of rewards these players gained would have been impossible, and because almost all of them had 7* shards, there was a convenient resource that would could remove to apply the punishment. We also felt that removing one of the most coveted resources as punishment would demonstrate that we take cheating very seriously. The other option was to apply a negative Unit balance (AKA Contest Credits) to the accounts, but we have never done this before for behavior that didn't involved real money changing hands. Let this be a warning though, if you engage in breaking our Terms of Service in any way, you may find a negative Unit balance in your account in the future.

We do anticipate one more ban wave related to some borderline cases for Incursions cheating. In the meantime, to those of you who received a temporary ban, your accounts have been flagged and a lower threshold of evidence will be used to ban you again in the future. If you would like to continue playing our game, it's time to become upstanding citizens of the Battlerealm.

Comments

BigBlueOx

Happy to see this being addressed and taken seriously now. While I’m vocally annoyed in other places with the game, on this topic kudos are in order. Appreciate real actions being taken. Gonna enjoy opening my 7stars while these losers can’t now.

pseudosane

great move! Kudos to cleaning up the contest. This is a huge W.

Vydra

This is great. Love the frequent updates we are getting on this front. It’s much needed. It’s definitely been demoralising watching these set of players get away with plenty in this past.

H3t3r

I've definitely noticed the lack of Cheaters especially in VC. Don't think I've seen one in last 2 seasons even in all the chats im in. Great Job!

IiIooIiI

Nice work. Cheaters are a big turn off, especially to people who spend money on the game.

I admit I was/am vocally unhappy about the revive farming changes, but I have seen things since then that I thought very highly of.

Credit where credit is due. This is a good move and I hope you continue to improve your cheater detection and continue to punish accordingly.

Pikolu

This is the best news I've seen in a long time! Thanks for keeping up the good fight

rwhack

Now do arena bots please

Syndicated

Amazing work, i really hope to see Arena bots and cheaters kicked in that Wave, with new arena changes i really want to do them propperly and fairly.

Seenk

Well done Kabam, glad that progress is being made in this direction.

BigBlueOx

This is great. Love the frequent updates we are getting on this front. It’s much needed. It’s definitely been demoralising watching these set of players get away with plenty in this past.

The frequency of these can not be applauded enough. I hope the team replicates this with other reoccurring issues like BG bugs, and Input Issue updates

Harit_kumar

I hope you can remove those arena bots before new arena rewards system comes in.

Colinwhitworth69

Good work. Sucks you have to devote so much energy into stopping cheaters, but that's the world we live in.

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Prismane1269

So there’ll be Another ban wave!

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evilKINGwilson

Finally , thank you ! Please keep it up. Morale = happy players = more spending to keep the contest alive 🤑

noclutch

I am one of those players that got suspended for 7 days.

I appreciate that you guys are now (even though its late) are showing some efforts against cheating. However I want to address something here.

I have been doing BGs and AWs for a long time. I just cant get past the roster gap between an endgame spender's whale account and my occasional spending account.

I am more than happy to get every new deal, character or rankup material that you guys sell. Who doesn't wan't to get a newly released character or good chunk of newly added rank up material, right?

So here is my point, I dont have enough money to buy every deal you guys offer.
This puts me to a disadvantage of having less champs at highest rank and less diversity of characters in my roster compared to a massive spender.

In this state neither I, an occasional spender nor an ftp player can compete for the #1 rank in any gamemode that is dependent on roster size or ranks. Thats pretty much all of the pvp modes in game BGs, AWs, Arenas and everything that has a leaderboard, that applies to event leaderboard as well.

I accept that getting carried my a cheater is not ethical and it takes community in wrong direction.
But pushing offers that create massive gap in character rosters makes imbalance in the player base as well, essentially creating a divide.

With input issues and arena top ranks cheating not being resolved, It frustrates us as players who cant bypass the grind aspect of the game by just spending.

I picked a player from global chat and asked him to carry me in incursions for insignificant amount of money. It was way better worth of my time than doing BGs with 0 points bug or hours of redundant arena grind.

And you know removing 80%* of my 7 star shards does make me sad but its not the worst thing as compared to How I feel losing to a whale account in BGs.

To anyone that hate me for getting carried, I accept that hate.
I knew what I was getting into and I did it.

"If you would like to continue playing our game, it's time to become upstanding citizens of the Battlerealm"
One could also say "Its time to be responsible administrators of the Battlerealm and work in favour of your citizens instead of just capitalising on them"

Nilmar55

Yah KAPAM , just Punish the poor players and show your muscles on them.
And keep your eyes closed on the real cheaters who tock avery single reward in the game.!!

7* shards!!
What a shame!!

Mtmkill_33

Just yesterday I read this post, where the scammer was crying that 7* fragments were taken from him. And lo and behold, after 2 hours we will find out that all this time there was an anti-cheating program in the game. Stop embarrassing yourself and deceiving players with false information.

Krishna24

Yah KAPAM , just Punish the poor players and show your muscles on them.
And keep your eyes closed on the real cheaters who tock avery single reward in the game.!!

7* shards!!
What a shame!!

Are you saying that you are a modder?

Mtmkill_33

Coincidence? I don't think so.

Nilmar55

Yah KAPAM , just Punish the poor players and show your muscles on them.
And keep your eyes closed on the real cheaters who tock avery single reward in the game.!!

7* shards!!
What a shame!!
Are you saying that you are a modder?

Absolutely not, but I keep seeing the real modder & hacker still free from any punishment,
No titles token, no rewards & not banned also!!

Mtmkill_33

The most amazing robbery team we've ever seen. Bravo, you surprised me.

DL864

I am one of those players that got suspended for 7 days.

I appreciate that you guys are now (even though its late) are showing some efforts against cheating. However I want to address something here.

I have been doing BGs and AWs for a long time. I just cant get past the roster gap between an endgame spender's whale account and my occasional spending account.

I am more than happy to get every new deal, character or rankup material that you guys sell. Who doesn't wan't to get a newly released character or good chunk of newly added rank up material, right?

So here is my point, I dont have enough money to buy every deal you guys offer.
This puts me to a disadvantage of having less champs at highest rank and less diversity of characters in my roster compared to a massive spender.

In this state neither I, an occasional spender nor an ftp player can compete for the #1 rank in any gamemode that is dependent on roster size or ranks. Thats pretty much all of the pvp modes in game BGs, AWs, Arenas and everything that has a leaderboard, that applies to event leaderboard as well.

I accept that getting carried my a cheater is not ethical and it takes community in wrong direction.
But pushing offers that create massive gap in character rosters makes imbalance in the player base as well, essentially creating a divide.

With input issues and arena top ranks cheating not being resolved, It frustrates us as players who cant bypass the grind aspect of the game by just spending.

I picked a player from global chat and asked him to carry me in incursions for insignificant amount of money. It was way better worth of my time than doing BGs with 0 points bug or hours of redundant arena grind.

And you know removing 80%* of my 7 star shards does make me sad but its not the worst thing as compared to How I feel losing to a whale account in BGs.

To anyone that hate me for getting carried, I accept that hate.
I knew what I was getting into and I did it.

"If you would like to continue playing our game, it's time to become upstanding citizens of the Battlerealm"
One could also say "Its time to be responsible administrators of the Battlerealm and work in favour of your citizens instead of just capitalising on them"

It sounds like you are trying to justify your shady actions do to whales and bugs.You have an r4 herc and spend a little bit. You still had to get carried. That says more about lack of skill then roster size. I agree bugs stink and I can't stand what is happening in bgs but that's no excuse. You got caught except it and not try water down your actions by blaming kabam, whales and bugs. Smh

Mtmkill_33

I am one of those players that got suspended for 7 days.

I appreciate that you guys are now (even though its late) are showing some efforts against cheating. However I want to address something here.

I have been doing BGs and AWs for a long time. I just cant get past the roster gap between an endgame spender's whale account and my occasional spending account.

I am more than happy to get every new deal, character or rankup material that you guys sell. Who doesn't wan't to get a newly released character or good chunk of newly added rank up material, right?

So here is my point, I dont have enough money to buy every deal you guys offer.
This puts me to a disadvantage of having less champs at highest rank and less diversity of characters in my roster compared to a massive spender.

In this state neither I, an occasional spender nor an ftp player can compete for the #1 rank in any gamemode that is dependent on roster size or ranks. Thats pretty much all of the pvp modes in game BGs, AWs, Arenas and everything that has a leaderboard, that applies to event leaderboard as well.

I accept that getting carried my a cheater is not ethical and it takes community in wrong direction.
But pushing offers that create massive gap in character rosters makes imbalance in the player base as well, essentially creating a divide.

With input issues and arena top ranks cheating not being resolved, It frustrates us as players who cant bypass the grind aspect of the game by just spending.

I picked a player from global chat and asked him to carry me in incursions for insignificant amount of money. It was way better worth of my time than doing BGs with 0 points bug or hours of redundant arena grind.

And you know removing 80%* of my 7 star shards does make me sad but its not the worst thing as compared to How I feel losing to a whale account in BGs.

To anyone that hate me for getting carried, I accept that hate.
I knew what I was getting into and I did it.

"If you would like to continue playing our game, it's time to become upstanding citizens of the Battlerealm"
One could also say "Its time to be responsible administrators of the Battlerealm and work in favour of your citizens instead of just capitalising on them"
It sounds like you are trying to justify your shady actions do to whales and bugs.You have an r4 herc and spend a little bit. You still had to get carried. That says more about lack of skill then roster size. I agree bugs stink and I can't stand what is happening in bgs but that's no excuse. You got caught except it and not try water down your actions by blaming kabam, whales and bugs. Smh

Who are you justifying the robbery of an account? A scammer just like him.

DL864

Who are you justifying the robbery of an account? A scammer just like him

What robbery are you talking about lmao. I'm the guy saying that account got what they deserve. That's who I am buddy.

DL864

Who are you justifying the robbery of an account? A scammer just like him.

Sounds like your account is in the same boat. I can taste the salt

SpartanChaos

Who are you justifying the robbery of an account? A scammer just like him.

Sounds like your account is in the same boat. I can taste the salt

How is it robbery of an account? You mean returning what the account stole by cheating in the first place? Don't cheat and you won't lose your rewards

DL864

Who are you justifying the robbery of an account? A scammer just like him.
Sounds like your account is in the same boat. I can taste the salt

How is it robbery of an account? You mean returning what the account stole by cheating in the first place? Don't cheat and you won't lose your rewards