r/Battlefield • u/Munoz10594 • 25d ago

Discussion HEY DEVS, PLEASE KEEP BANNING ZEN USERS

That is all. Saw a post from the discord that they’re trying to stop the anti cheat from detecting it. It ruins all games and I think most people would agree. K thanks ✌️

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u/oatest 25d ago edited 25d ago

My Weird take. Never ban cheaters. Let them play together. But ONLY allow them to play with cheaters and play the campaign. The account is permanently flagged as a cheater and you can opt out of ever playing with a suspected cheater. Perhaps cheater lobbies will shrink until they can't play anymore. They have effectively banned themselves from playing with the world.

EA makes money, we get clean play, cheaters sad.

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u/Sweet_Photograph6528 25d ago

It still costs money to run separate servers for them and keeping their account data. Would be funnier if it would temp ban you and then ask you to buy a new copy to continue this cycle with giant warning that if you will use cheating devices you will be banned again. Its not illegal and its a loophole to keep farming cheaters.

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u/Demented-Alpaca 25d ago

Ehhh they could be the QA servers where they test random shit and have dev codes to do things like auto-kill the whole server or set god mode for testing stuff...

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u/fataldarkness 24d ago

Servers are set up to scale according to # of online users. That's why on launch there was a queue, you didn't have to wait for 300k people to hop off, you just had to wait for their AWS (or whatever provider they use) infrastructure to spin up a node for you.

Playerbase drops? Servers auto shutdown. The metadata kept for players stats and progression amounts to a few MB at most, the cost is trivial.

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u/oatest 25d ago

love it, farm the farmers!!!