Apex Legends confirms ban for streamer accused of cheating by NRG Rogue An Apex Legends developer has confirmed that a player has been banned after being accused of cheating by popular Apex Legends streamer Rogue, which sparked controversy in the community. A Taiwanese streamer known as \u201915y\u2019 and his two friends got into the same game as the popular streamer and content creator for NRG, Tanner \u2018Rogue\u2019 Trebb. After Rogue 15y downed Dropped, another top-level player on Rogue\u2019s team, they were quick to suggest that 15y was cheating. While the altercation between 15y and Rogue took place, Eric \u2018Ghost\u2018 Hewitt, Lead competitive development manager, and Conor \u2018Hideouts\u2018 Ford, security analyst for Respawn, were watching Rogue\u2019s stream. A few minutes after the game ended, Ghost asked for the user name of the suspected cheater in Rogue\u2019s chat. Shortly after, 15y was banned. The followers of the Taiwanese squad quickly flooded Rogue with hate for supposedly being responsible for the ban, claiming that 15y was not in fact cheating. \u201cI didn\u2019t ban him. I\u2019m not the guy who bans people. Hideouts is the one who bans them guys, not me,\u201d Rogue said. \u201cAsk Hideouts why he got banned. If we think someone is suspect, and we think they are potentially cheating, Hideouts comes in chat and asks, then he checks their account. He\u2019s not just going to listen to me.\u201d This led fans to accuse the developers of jumping the gun on the ban, with a Reddit thread posted on August 9 garnering significant attention, labeling Rogue\u2019s actions \u201cevil.\u201d However, Hideouts responded to the thread, explaining 15y\u2019s account was connected to another two accounts that were caught cheating. \u201cBan was temporary while investigated,\u201d Hideouts said. 15y supposedly gave his friends the accounts to play on, and they were apparently caught used cheats. Although 15y claims he didn\u2019t cheat, account sharing is still against Apex Legend\u2019s TOS. \u201cUser is not banned right now but may lose account privileges due to selling of accounts to cheaters,\u201d Hideouts concluded. Hideouts is a well-known name in the Apex community, often at the helm of dishing out bans for hackers and players using exploits, particularly in high-level ranked matches. Players were initially angered, believing that the devs had blindly banned the player on nothing more than the word of Rogue, but it appears they had good reason to take action in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends confirms ban for streamer accused of cheating by NRG Rogue An Apex Legends developer has confirmed that a player has been banned after being accused of cheating by popular Apex Legends streamer Rogue, which sparked controversy in the community. A Taiwanese streamer known as \u201915y\u2019 and his two friends got into the same […]<\/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-44460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44460","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=44460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}