PUBG Ban Hammer Smashes Over 6,000 Cheaters Daily

PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds or PUBG is very serious about ridding the community of cheaters and is taking harsh steps to do so. PC Gamer reports that the anti-cheating system in the game is now banning about 6,000 suspected cheaters every day. That statistic comes from BattlEye, the service charged with finding and eliminating cheaters.

The official twitter account for BattlEye posted that between 6,000 and 13,000 people are being banned every day. The account also states that over 322,000 cheaters have been banned from PUBG so far. That is twice as many people as the game’s creator Brendan Greene talked about last month.

On October 13, BattlEye tweeted that it has banned over 20,000 players in the last 24 hours alone with the vast majority of those bans being from China. PUBG in China had recently received in-game ads resulting in lots of negative reviews hitting Steam.

PUBG is growing rapidly and it’s great to see that the developers take cheating very seriously. The game passed 2 million concurrent players three days ago with a peak of nearly 2.2 million players. Over 16 million copies have been sold according to reports.