Apex Legends dev responds to calls to region lock China to stop cheaters An Apex Legends developer has confirmed that more will be done to crack down on cheaters, but region locking China isn\u2019t as simple as it seems. Apex Legends has exploded in popularity since entering the saturated battle royale market in February \u2013 amassing a huge player base across the globe that can compete with Fortnite. As with any in-demand game, some players will try to gain an unfair advantage on the battlefield, and China is particularly prominent for hackers and cheaters \u2013 PUBG were forced to region lock users in the country in order to remove a wave of exploiters back in October 2018. With hackers still ruining the gaming experience for many on Apex Legends, there have been calls for Respawn Entertainment to do the same, which would stop players from quitting the game due to the hackers. Nevertheless, one of the game\u2019s developer confirmed on Reddit that while more methods to stop cheaters are in the works, it will be a constant battle to ensure fairness among their player base. The developer also revealed that region locking China would not solve the problem of hackers on the Asian servers as the game isn\u2019t even officially released there. It\u2019s likely that players are using one or multiple VPN\u2019s in order to gain access to the game \u2013 meaning region locking won\u2019t solve the issue at hand as cheaters will continue to bypass the ban on their IP address. It seems that Apex Legends players in Asia will be forced to deal with the cheaters for the time being, with Respawn giving no further update when more anti-cheat methods will be introduced. Given the popularity of the game and the lucrative nature of the Asian market, developers should be doing all they can to come up with a solution as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev responds to calls to region lock China to stop cheaters An Apex Legends developer has confirmed that more will be done to crack down on cheaters, but region locking China isn\u2019t as simple as it seems. Apex Legends has exploded in popularity since entering the saturated battle royale market in February \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}