This game is going to die extremely fast. I’m done with it until hacking is fixed. With the lack of kicking in comp and the lack of reporting this game is asking hackers to join and ruin it.
Hacking is destroying comp, especially since the other team enjoys it
Phantomchan
(Phantomchan)
#2
I have to agree that they should fix the hacking issue immediately as it really kills ranked. I also agree with a feature where people are able to report people which sends logs to Splash Damage and where the user might also be able to include additional files such as screenshots/video.
ispellcorrectly
(ispellcorrectly)
#3
It won’t die at all! It will just grow and keep it’s community, that’s the great thing about F2P!
sunshinefats
(sunshinefats)
#5
Because basically they have very little to lose with F2P games. They don’t have to spend money to begin with, they therefore don’t have to pay for another copy of the game, etc. If they get banned, they lose nothing more than the minor inconvenience of having to make a new account, which is nominal. Historically, F2P has been somewhat of a free4all cheatfest because of that. Sure, not all games are lax in their approach to cheaters, but I would argue that a majority are, and even those that aren’t don’t tend to do more than the absolute minimum(although certainly there are exceptions-or more appropriately exceptional games that do, but again they’re the vast minority). Add in to that factor that there’s currently very little in DB to even do a small amount of “damage” to cheaters and why wouldn’t they cheat? It’s basically just asking for it, and as others have said, if something isn’t done, fast, the game just isn’t going to stand a chance, especially against some of the heavyweight games coming out later this year. DB isn’t finished, sure, but it IS out for public consumption. That means it’s building reputation already…reputation being one of the key survivability factors for this type of game. If reputation gets too bad by the time of release no one is going to bother playing it for the most part. Hope that is some kind of reasonable answer.
Nail
(Nail)
#6
Realize this:
once a cheater gets banned for w/e bot they can’t just make a new account, the hack has been caught, they’ll just get banned again, they’ll need new hacks. An actual anti-cheat can work, just needs to be implemented soon
mti
(mti_)
#7
I think that for a game that requires you to put quite a bit of time into it to unlock classes and loadout cards it is easier to dissuade people from simply making a new account and start hacking again. They would basically never really get going.
From how I understood ispellcorrectly he argued that because the game is f2p it does not need to maintain the community properly because simply being f2p is a gurantee for having a sustainable community. I do not agree with that. A f2p title can very much fail (or “die” to use his terminology). We see them come and go every other day on Steam. I would argue that having no barrier to entry makes it easy to get initial interest and numbers but you really have to set yourself apart to maintain those numbers. If all that people remeber of the game is “It was quirky but lacking in functionality, the balance was off and it was riddled with cheaters” then you will have a hard time working past this image to communicate what you have done to address these issues.
F2p has a negative side to it as well because people are not emtionally invested due to not being financially invested. If I spent 70€ on the latest Battlefield I will sit there and be salty about how it is a casual “everything explodes”-simulator but Ill still put the time in because I paied 70 freaking bucks for it.
The amount of f2p games I installed on Steam and immediately decided they werent worth it to then never touch them again is countless.
shibbyuk
(shibbyuk)
#8
In my experience, the other team is often apologetic. I think that, in the interest of not letting hackers play, some of the players on the hackers’ team would be willing to join a vote to kick them and end the game.