The Worst Thing About Cheating | Forums

[Tookie1982]

In my opinion, the worst thing about cheating is the barriers to advancement it has created. I found an impenetrable wall at rank 45 where I come up against cheater after cheater that push me back down to rank 41-42 before I start clawing my way back up.

I suspect redlinx have been monitoring the L bracket assuming that's where the cheaters would end up, but the cheaters got wise to this and started hovering just under so they get as many cards per pack without being banned as possible. Now while this wall has been up the people in the L bracket have been getting a couple more cards per pack for months, has now created a huge disparity in card levels. Even if all cheaters were removed tommorow good luck ever breaking the L wall without spending 100s of dollars.

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Here is my problem with the cheaters:

I'm in the mid 20s for pvp, hovering between 24 and 26. The energy hackers are far more common now than they were at the low levels. Without them, in fair matches, I win roughly 2 out of 3 games. The thing is, roughly one out of every four matches is a energy hacker. So basically, I win two and lose two out of every four matches. Which means I'm stuck. Sometimes things are going great and I make a little progress, but then other times I run into better players, or two cheaters in a row, which makes the crawl up the pvp ladder glacially slow, even under the best of circumstances. It's very discouraging.

Then I get an email from Ubi, from the one report I filed on a cheater, and they're asking for screen shots and videos and I'm like 1) none of that is quick or easy to do on my tablet or phone and 2) it's a dumb idea anyway, because the only cheaters I can catch are the ones stupid enough to spam cards and I'm sure most of the cheaters are smart enough to just use a few extra cards to swing matches, unless they're playing against another energy hacker, and 3) none of this is my job in the first place!

I show up and play fair and play polite and buy card packs. I've spent $50 on this game so far, which is actually $20 more than I paid for Stick of Truth and Fractured but Whole combined. I am fulfilling my side of the gamer/dev contract. Hunting down cheaters and bringing them to justice is not (or should not be) on me. Ubisoft is a global company with tons of resources and the South Park franchise is a huge global entity which I'm sure pulls in more money every year than the GDP of most small countries, so why are we acting like the best way to catch the cheaters is if I make it my part-time unpaid job? COME ON.