Ubi/Massive time to put on the ”thinking cap” and do some salvage and damage control,
First,
I do like this game and put a decent amount of play-time into it.
I will also (as little as this is “worth”) mention I been a gamer for 30 years and do analyses/development as my ”food ticket”.
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With one patch 21/4 and now one today 28/4 reading the patch notes with seven solid days of grief in between and the lack of shop on the issues that now gone from the small media outlets to the big ones, I believe the ”bean counters” focus on revenue this second and there lack of ability to see visions and future revenues have laid down the current path which is a disastrous one IMO.
Why you might ask,
The stance or in this case lack of stance which also is a choice with repercussions that are hurting the game/company and also most likely the current/future revenues, my self money in hand for season pass for me and kids but not so likely in the current state of affairs.
Also there seams to be this ”let it be and it will go away” and it will not hurt the console sales.
That is not entirely true, me for instance with me paying for those ps3/ps4 assassins series and buying for first in a long time a Ubi title for PC, see it as slim to non chance any more getting into this house of those/other titles.
Down the road players will remember this handling or lack of it, the future.
A very easy and quick remedy to start the reputation salvage would be,
I wrote this before but I do it again, and the personal costs for this is probably absolutely nothing compared to the costs now/to come.
Start to actually look at the reported players stats, and the function to watch/spectator seams to be pretty available and could if not already done so to watch those named players and the videos of them.
If you do not have it, implement a feature to log the time it takes to complete a mission, if done in half possible time go figure.
Then make an announcement when you reach 100 banned/closed accounts and the same for the next 100 and so on in a way that can not be missed When You Start the Game, or even for just every 10 closed/wiped accounts, it does not matter.
That would show that you are “on the ball”, and even the ones getting one-shoot in DZ but never visit the forums would know that something positive is happening, and leave the announcement there all time.
This alone will not stop all that cheats, but I guarantee it will make the majority in this cheat immune game think twice before buying/using those cheats and lower the cheating population perhaps to level that they do not matter as much.
This will also stem the ones on the fence now ready to jump over it, right now they are almost being forced over it to be able to develop the character in DZ and stand a chance.
Another quick, easy fix,
Would be to make a new DZ span of +220, that would cut out for the moment lots of those with ill gotten gains and they can hack among them self until you come up with a better solution.
Another quick, easy fix to help the situation,
Quote:
Originally Posted by
McHondy
A day of the Division server :
00.00.00 Client : I'm now in DZ6 outside the safehouse
00.00.00 Server : ok
00.00.01 Client: I'm now outside the safehouse in DZ3
00.00.01 Server : ok
when it should have been :
00.00.01 Server: What? you can't move that fast, 1 sec ago you was in DZ6, warning for hacking and you will be disconnected in 3 sec.
There are several similar reality/reasonable checks in different areas as in the quote above that with not so much effort could be implemented on server side IMO.
Cheaters will just re-buy the game,
I see this arguments that cheaters will just re-buy the game if account gets removed.
I believe that will be true for the very few, Pavlos Dog effect and even with cheats it takes time to get that vanity look and level up on-top of the cost and doing the same thing over again in a game that you already played.
Last,
Do not bad thought process ruin the current game and hurt current sales/future ones.
A Concerned Player,
-cb99