BGMI update: Krafton will ban devices of cheaters or hackers, check full details
Krafton Has Not Revealed How It Will Be Implementing The New Policy. However, We Expect It To Either Use The Device ID To Implement The Ban Or The IP Address Of The Device.
Krafton has announced that it will now start banning devices used by players to cheat in its popular battle royale game, Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI). With this change in policy, the developers have stated that they will ban devices running software that helps gamers cheat. Under the new policy, the devices will be banned permanently, unlike the older policy of sanctioning the offending account.
The company shared the details of the new ban policy via an official blog post on the game's website. According to the post, "If the use of illegal programs is detected with a mobile device by the newly applied security logic, the device will be permanently banned from using BGMI." To recall, earlier the company only banned the player accounts when they were found cheating.
"Up until now sanctions were given only to the accounts, but now the mobile devices will be banned as well, making fair gameplay far more effective," it added.
Apart from this, Krafton recently announced that it banned approximately one lakh BGMI accounts permanently for cheating in a six-day time frame.
The new policy update will make it much more difficult for cheaters to return to the game. Considering that when an account is banned, the offender can bypass it by creating additional accounts on the same device. However, a device ban will be much more difficult to bypass.
The company has not revealed how it will be implementing the new policy. However, we expect it to either use the device ID to implement the ban or the IP address of the device.
To recall, Krafton has been quite vocal about its stand on cheating. It has even been said that it strives to implement strong sanctions inside of the game to promote fair play. It has the ultimate goal of eradicating the use of illegal programs to provide players with a pleasant gaming environment.
Some other actions taken by the company against cheating include preventing players from running PUBG: New State on devices with Developer options enabled.
- HIGHLIGHTS
- Krafton enforced the device ban policy last week
- These device bans will be permanent in nature
- Krafton has published the list of BGMI cheaters
Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) publisher Krafton has banned nearly 60,000 accounts in a week's time. The ban is a part of strict countermeasures taken against illegal activities affecting the gaming environment. The developer has also published a list with the names of the banned accounts. In its previous weekly takedowns, the developer banned about a lakh accounts between December 13 and December 19, and over 142,000 players who were cheating in the game between December 6 and December 12.
Krafton announced via a post that 58,611 accounts on BGMI had been banned for using illegal activities in the six-day time frame from December 20 to December 26. “We would also like to present [to] you the entire list of cheaters who have tried to ruin our Battlegrounds,” Krafton said while publishing it. “Battlegrounds Mobile India will strive to implement strong sanctions with the ultimate goal of eradicating the use of illegal programs in order to provide you a pleasant gaming environment,” it added.
Krafton usually bans players if they have downloaded the BGMI game from an unofficial channel or have illegal auxiliary programs on their devices. In its previous takedowns, Krafton banned nearly 1 lakh accounts for cheating between December 13 and December 19, and more than 142,000 accounts between December 6 and December 12.
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