There are a lot of cheaters in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. That’s been true from the start, and the game’s wild popularity - not to mention the frankly ridiculous prices people are still paying for mini-skirts on the Marketplace - means PUBG has continued to be a cheat magnet. But cheaters are still getting banned, and by now they’re getting banned by the millions.

PUBG’s security tech of choice, BattleEye, announced on Twitter today that they’ve surpassed 1.5 million bans for the game.

Update on the number of PUBG bans: 1,500,000.

— BattlEye (@TheBattlEye) December 28, 2017

According to SteamSpy, there over 26 million Steam accounts that own the game, so those bans represent a pretty significant portion of the playerbase. BattleEye have reported exponentially increasing numbers of bans in the past several months, with a total of 50,000 in August, 300,000 in October, 700,000 in November, and now 1.5 million in December.

And even for those who haven’t gotten banned just yet, it looks like cheaters are getting matched with other cheats these days, so we can enjoy the knowledge that if they’re not yet banned, they might just be confined to a nightmare battle royale exclusively built for those breaking the rules.

Posted: Jan 01, 2018 8:20 am
Last Updated: Jan 01, 2018 10:04 am
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Source: https://www.pcgamesn.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds/pubg-cheaters-bans