Final Fantasy 14 strongly bans more than 5000 cheat accounts

Final Fantasy 14 is the extremely popular MMO game of Square Enix currently has about 24 million players. FF14 It sets itself apart from other Final Fantasy games with its own personality that helps it attract a large fan base. The most recent expansion, Shadowbringers, is highly appreciated by the gaming community as well as with strong interest and interaction. Like many other games, the problem cheat is still a thorny issue for Square Enix in the process of building a healthy community.

The fact that gamers trade real money in FF14 has made the tasks more difficult for the true gamers, and the cheaters are extremely easy. Along with the development of MMO games, hacking software is also becoming more and more sophisticated.
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Square Enix recently took action by banning 5037 accounts that participated in banned activities from February 25, 2021 to March 3, 2021. During the same time period, Square Enix also locked 814 accounts for advertising services related to real money trading. The major game company also encourages the player community to continue to report all fraudulent accounts and they will have zero tolerance for this type of harmful behavior.

Two days after the wave you After the strong performance of Square Enix took place, the number of fraudulent activities decreased significantly compared to before. But this may just be temporary like the case of World of Warcraft before, if gamers still have the mentality of wanting to win quickly, then surely cheating will still exist, because there will be supply.
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The nature of MMO games is that the number of players is extremely large, so cheating will definitely still happen. To be able to build a healthy community not only based on manufacturers and anti-cheat software, but also on the spirit of fair play of gamers. Final Fantasy 14 is currently available on PC and PS4, a PS5-powered version is expected to launch in late 2021.​