Question for Zenimax about Zenimax's incredibly stupid and vague stance on cheating/ exploits.

Verathragna · July 2016

We have no clue what's cheating or exploiting at this point, gap closers for example, you knew it was broke in PTS you were told it was broke in PTS, you were shown it was broke in PTS. You did nothing. You released broke content to the live audience. You knew it was broke in the live game, you were told it was broke in the live game, you were shown it was broke in the live game, you did nothing. Now suddenly a month in it's an exploit. So my question is what else do you know to be broken that you have ignored that you have done nothing to fix and are now going to be suddenly banning people for? Am I going to be banned for wearing Malubeth? I was informed that it was broken somehow and that Zenimax was aware of it. Do I have to worry about getting banned because someone has a video where they're struggling to kill me while I'm wearing Malubeth? It'd probably be more effective to fix the issues people report instead of ignoring it and then releasing it broke in the first place. As for your perma bans for cheat engine, I'm told almost everyone banned for it has been unbanned. Yet there is still someone banned for gap closing? So going out of your way to download 3rd party content to maliciously cheat is less of an offense than using a gap closer to have fun. Gap closers being something you created and released in a knowingly broken state.

wayfarerx · July 2016

I'm on my phone, but I think this is a wall of text. Anyone on a PC back me up?

TL;DR cheaters and exploiters suck, ZOS needs to do better, right?

UltimaJoe777 · July 2016

Inb4 lock.

Rohamad_Ali · July 2016

This is why I don't drink tap water .

Thornen · July 2016

Banning ppl for gap closing into keep is laughable when they have known about the issue for like 3 months and still haven't fixed it. Next they'll start banning you when your heavy attack glitches out and freezes the animation on your next attack or you fall through the world or a npc refuses to move during a quest or....you get my point.

ishilb14_ESO · July 2016

The person with the top score for sorcs in vMA has been proven to use cheats to get that score but he has not been banned, but the player who has the top score for nightblades was banned even though he has a video of all his runs showing that he was not using any cheats. So clearly ZOS devs want you to use cheat engine when doing vMA based on what happened in both those scenarios, is my logic flawed based on that?

UltimaJoe777 · July 2016

ishilb14_ESO wrote: »

The person with the top score for sorcs in vMA has been proven to use cheats to get that score but he has not been banned, but the player who has the top score for nightblades was banned even though he has a video of all his runs showing that he was not using any cheats. So clearly ZOS devs want you to use cheat engine when doing vMA based on what happened in both those scenarios, is my logic flawed based on that?

The person banned could very well have been using a cheat not so easy to spot with little to no relevance to what they were doing in the video and tried to deny it you know. The video no doubt got Zenimax's attention. Has the Sorcerer made any videos? Are you sure his score is impossible without cheating? As Rich said some of the reports on players suspected of cheating did not pan out, they're just THAT good at the game.

FENGRUSH · July 2016

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/278136/zos-needs-to-properly-address-gap-closer-issue-and-cheating-in-general/p1?new=1

ZOS_DaryaK · July 2016

We've closed this discussion, please use this thread to discuss cheating/exploits.