Tencent helps Chinese police arrest 120 PUBG hack software creators

Tencent, the publisher of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China, is working to address hacking in the region, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Tencent has begun applying Chinese law to “remove the seeds of criminals who create and sell fraudulent software”. These efforts have found 30 cases and arrested 120 people.

The arrested parties are suspected of designing fraudulent software, everything from aimbots to wallhacks. Cheat has always been a problem in PUBG after it was launched in early access on Steam in March and gradually became popular.

Just a few weeks ago, BattleEye announced that it had banned more than 1.5 million accounts for hacking in PUBG, but hackers continue to be rampant in the game.

“PUBG is currently in development and cheaters are threatening this development,” said Kim Hak-joon, a game analyst at Kiwom Securities Co. in Korea. “Cheaters will kick out new players, and without new player play, PUBG will not be able to continue the success it created before and become a lasting title.”

China now has 10 million players playing PUBG in the past two weeks, according to Steam data from SteamSpy, compared with 2 million players in the US and 8 million players in the rest of the world. Not all but a lot of hackers in the game come from China and Tencent knows this well.

We have to wait and see if Tencent’s efforts can make a big splash in the never-ending battle between game makers and hackers, but as you can see, NPH is taking it very seriously. cheat.