Sea of thieves has a huge cheating problem, especially regarding the hourglass system. I have over 5,000 levels across both factions in hourglass and have fought dozens of cheaters within the past few months, although I can beat them a good amount of the time, some cheats are almost impossible to counter and I have lost many streaks to cheaters. Certain streamers should have the ability to live ban players. There is already a massive amount of stream sniping in sea of thieves especially surrounding the hourglass system in which cheaters will queue against a streamer and spawn camp/sink them. Very well known streamers or sea of thieves partners should have the ability to quickly live ban cheaters while on stream. Of course this would only be used against very blatantly cheating players who use fly hacks, wallbangs, or maybe very blatant aimbot, pretty much just cheats which are very easy to discern. I think that if this were to be a thing, you should be able to apply for this privilege and only streamers who have much experience around the games pvp system should have it to help prevent false bans, as streamers who are bad at pvp may think a good player is a cheater. If any false bans were to happen, it would happen on stream and likely would not be hard to revert. I think this would have very beneficial effects upon the cheating problem that this game is experiencing.
Way of helping to prevent cheaters
@happykitten5269 said in Way of helping to prevent cheaters:
Very well known streamers or sea of thieves partners should have the ability to quickly live ban cheaters while on stream.
There is an entire content market built around pointing out baseless accusations from streamers/partners when they get frustrated. Been that way for years because it's so common and over the top.
Giving power to any player in this game to ban others would be wild and very destructive.
@wolfmanbush I know this but if you had heavy restrictions on when you are able to use this and gave it to the right streamers that know how the game's pvp system works and who use the hourglass system frequently, it would help the cheating problem within hourglass a lot.
@happykitten5269 said in Way of helping to prevent cheaters:
@wolfmanbush I know this but if you had heavy restrictions on when you are able to use this and gave it to the right streamers that know how the game's pvp system works and who use the hourglass system frequently, it would help the cheating problem within hourglass a lot.
Nobody that wants that kind of power without accountability would use it responsibly. Especially in an ego filled scene like SoT.
Doesn't matter how popular someone is, how trusted, how nice, how long they've been around, how skilled
a system of accountability is a system of evidence examined by an impartial party.
This is even more true for people in a streaming scene which is already very low accountability as it is. One of the major reasons that baseless accusations are so normalized is because of streaming/content creation.
No. No Players should never, ever have the ability to instantly ban cheaters.
Imagine one popular streamer getting salty they lost: "They MUST be cheating!" Said streamer screams, before abusing his ability to ban the person who beat them.
And, of course, since a popular streamer would have viewers who stand up for them, right or wrong, the banned player is now screwed six ways from Sunday. All because they won against someone with a fragile ego.It's a horrid idea. Leave the banning to the developers.
@guildar9194 It is pretty obvious that they devs can neither prevent cheating or effectively control/ban cheaters. I have fought hard cheating crews over and over again for weeks before they finally get banned. It often takes well over a week for a support ticket with a clip of someone who is very blatantly cheating to be answered by support. something needs to change and if not this then what else????
If you believe a player has been toxic in the game or suspect foul-play, you can report them to Xbox Live here. You can also submit a support ticket via Rare Player Support.
As this is a matter for Support and not the Forums, I'll be dropping anchor here.
