Apex Legends Players Want Anti-Cheat Features From Valorant and Rainbow Six Siege

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Being one of the most popular online multiplayer games of the last couple of years, Apex Legends has a long and storied history of dealing with hacks and cheats. Some of the game's players are now calling for more drastic measures when it comes to anti-cheat implementations, citing Valorant and Rainbow Six: Siege as some examples of what to do.

Respawn Entertainment has been hard at work dealing with all manner of cheaters in Apex Legends, though the company has got a long road ahead in this regard. Even though neither Valorant nor Siege are perfect when it comes to anti-cheat features, Apex Legends' community believes that these games have a better way of dealing with (repeat) offenders.

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Of course, Respawn Entertainment did have plans for combating cheaters in Apex Legends. As of June 2021, Respawn intended to hire more people to handle manual bans, develop better DDoS management tools, and look for ways to single-out cheaters faster than before. The game's player base, however, is now calling for permanent hardware bans and phone number requirements on top of that.

With 28 million new players in Apex Legends over the course of 2021, it's a given that at least some number of them would turn out to be cheaters. Odds are, too, that at least some of these player accounts were created by continuous cheaters, so taking a feature like Siege's phone number requirement would be one way to at least thin their numbers further. The question is, then, if putting this requirement up would be worth the trouble in the long run.

Hardware bans, too, are a tricky business, though it's worth pointing out that Apex Legends did issue hardware bans even back in 2019, and presumably