Why are PUBG and Battle Royale games so hacked / cheat?

Hack / cheat is a problem for all publishers in the world, but with PUBG and most of the battle royale games, it is very special but difficult to treat.

As the most inhibiting thing for all PUBG players in particular and the shooting genre in general, hacks / cheats have existed since the early days of the game, causing publishers to struggle with them in a fight. nonstop.

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PUBG players are 'haunted' by their own characters

Not everyone who plays games just for fun but sometimes they are 'too happy' several times, to the point of indistinguishable between real life and the virtual world.

There are many types of hack / cheat, but for the battle royale shooting genre like PUBG, the most popular are still wallhacks (see through walls) and aimbot (auto targeting), a few more freak things. also interferes with the data transmission in the game so that cheat users can move extremely quickly around the map.

No need to talk about the benefits that players get when using cheats, just with the simplest thing is wallhack, how much you have won in a game like PUBG, not to mention using aimbot is right. is almost unrivaled. Since its launch, PUBG has always struggled with hacking, when hundreds of thousands of accounts have been locked out, but things have never been really thorough.

Even as the latest battle royale game called Call of Duty: Warzone also had a headache because of hacking, they gave more than 70 thousand accounts and determined to declare war with hack / cheat. No game could ever exist if it allowed the cheater to work, because it was obvious that no one was interested in poking their heads out.

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Wallhack in Warzone

The reason hack / cheat always exists in online games like PUBG, is because it is extremely addictive. Unlike offline games where you will get bored when you are too strong, in free games like PUBG, the feeling of 'unmatched' is always extremely exciting, especially for buffalo children who like chicken onions. Bragging on a top 1 (thanks to hacking) or ruining the experience of others is something that most gamers lack of sense of happiness, because being 'chicken' in any case is the thing. great.

Moreover, hacking / cheats also help players achieve easier, for example, the cheater rate has increased by 50% since January in Destiny 2, especially when the publisher released the Trials of Osiris update. . The reason is because in PvP mode, if a team can win 7 consecutive games, they will receive tremendous rewards, so many people have defiantly become cheaters to get rewards. The achievement is worth the risk, so despite knowing it can be banned, a large number of gamers still ignore it.

The case of PUBG is even more troublesome, because even though the game costs money to buy and the risk of ban is very high, the cheater still exists. This comes from the fact that from the beginning of appearing in 2017 , hacking in PUBG is even . crackable and shared for free, plus the very popular account rental in the community that makes the cheater more popular. , because the ban is not yours anyway.

There were thousands and even millions of such PUBG accounts in the years 2017 and 2018 (maybe even more in China), when many merchants took advantage of the price reduction to cover the number. Lots of money and started mass leasing. The popularity of PUBG also attracts a lot of hackers who constantly write illegal software, they are so blatant . advertising right in the game without any abstinence.

There are plenty of reasons why hack / cheats are so rampant, but in the case of battle royale games it's because they can't anticipate their popularity. When PUBG became famous, its growth rate per month amounted to hundreds of thousands of accounts, the publisher itself at that time could not even have expected its product to be so successful.

Moreover, when a game is on a rapid growth, publishers often tend to advertise it more than try to combat hacking, because the number of new players pouring into the balance is enough to offset the number of dropped games. Of course everything has two sides, PUBG is still struggling to fix this despite the passage of time, now even the mobile version has a headache with hacking too.

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Call of Duty: Warzone is similar, this game set a record of up to 6 million registered users in the first 24 hours of launch and then tens of thousands of accounts banned due to hacking / cheat use. Infinity Ward, of course, also learned a lesson from PUBG and made a very strong penalty, when the team did not regret their hands as well as determined to do everything to end this case but did not succeed.

One thing that is easy to notice is that hacking / cheats in PUBG games are usually found on PCs (there are also less consoles on mobile consoles), this is understandable because hacking software is often developed for PCs, rather than Another particular feature is the shooter, the more users play with the PC, the hackers who write cheats to make profits.

Call of Duty: Warzone was once proud of its crossplay ability, but now it is also criticized when console gamers are screaming that they will not find matches with the PC anymore, the reason is because there are too many cheaters. in any match.

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PUBG and other Battle Royale games themselves will still have to find a way to fight and destroy the hack / cheat, but in the current situation, PUBG is the weakest because it starts to reduce the level of interest, as well as must Add bots to support players. Maybe PUBG doesn't need to worry about hacking or cheats at some point, but if that day comes, it's more likely to be sad than happy.