PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a wildly popular ?battle royale? and really fun game to play, but recently the numbers of cheaters and hackers has gotten pretty bad. Just one week ago BattlEye, the third-party anti-cheat solution used by PUBG, announced that as of October 12th that 322,000 cheaters have been banned from PUBG and then followed that up by saying 42,000 accounts were banned in one day just over a week later! PUBG Corp. is doing their best to ban cheaters and on top of BattlEye banning an average of 6,000-13,000 accounts per day and they also recently added in a custom cheat detection tool on top of that. According to Steamdb, the most recent figures show that sales have topped 18.7 million, so based on the numbers released it would be safe to assume that right around half a million or 3% of PUBG game owners have been busted for cheating thus far.
Despite PUBG's anti-cheat system doing some serious banning, we?ve still ended up with cheaters in a good number of the solo, duo and squad matches that we have recently played. Reporting someone as a cheater in PUBG after you are killed by them doesn't instantly get them flagged for banning like one might think. That is just a statistic that PUBG Corp. uses internally and won't actually lead to someone getting banned.