tl;dr: It is nearly impossible that anyone who actually plays this game could really believe that they aren't playing against cheaters almost every game. On average, no matter your region, you are swimming in cheaters every match, based just on the ones that actually go on to get permabanned. It also takes Krafton a very, very long time to actually permaban cheaters, assuming they are in the 20-25% of cheaters who actually ever get banned (and so show up in this graph).
This post is a follow on from: https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/comments/1h5g3gy/how_many_players_in_your_game_are_definitely/ with an additional 8 months or so of observation and tracking. You can read more about the data behind it there.
Comment from u/Kowo97 a few months later here and resulting conversation made me realise there was a slightly mistake in the calculation, but the error was small (the correct results are in the thread, and the correct method was used to generate the data in the graph above, ie checking the % of players who are banned in each match, and then averaging that number for the matches in a month, rather than just doing banned players in the matches for that month divided by total number of players in those matches for the month).
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If you’re reading this and you cheat at pubg fuck you
Important addendum:
You are not swimming in cheaters if you are in South America. Statistically I think that’s the only server in the world where you are statistically more likely to have a clean game than a dirty game (however this conclusion excludes the possibility of cheaters who will never be banned).
South American PUBG players are saints, and they should be protected, and given more PNC slots for next year, somehow.
Second important addendum:
There was nearly the same proportion of permabanned hackers in the protected Korean servers as there were in the unprotected Asian (ie, Chinese) servers; significantly more than any of the other populated regions and a result which surprised me quite a bit (having never played on them since I don’t have a Kr/Jp passport or a subscription with Kakao).
Where to Indian play? SA is South Asia or South America?
Funny I was playing and it said two players were removed from the match. Hoping that means they were caught cheating
‘never’ seeing cheaters may be a stretch. But playing NA FPP, I definitely see wayyyyyy less cheaters than ASE TPP.
Cheaters are retarded. Change my mind.
Quality post.
I mean I feel like we run into cheaters probably 1 out of 3 games, cheaters ” lucky” enough to actually kill us. A lot of times they just get killed by others before we get to them. Cheats can only take you so far if you have no actual game sense.
I just figure they are hopefully fully investing all efforts onto pubg 2, and so they doing very little for the current state of the game. Though I don’t really have much faith in that either, but that’s the only way I can find a positive spin at the moment.
You’ve loaded a graph which shows perma banned accounts steadily going down.
So your statement assumes those permabanned accounts, cheated in every match they ever played?
I think that is just flawed. But the numbers are still high
After these recent updates I have yet to get temp ban on anyone I’ve reported. In may was getting notifications every day login
This is a confusing graph, and I read the methodology on the other post.
Are you saying that, in 02/24 for example, like 10% of players in a typical NA match eventually went on to be perma banned?