Respawn has reported that over 16,000 players have been banned from Apex Legends as a result of their cheating (yay!).
The free-to-play title garnered over 25 million players after the first week of it’s February 4th release. But that number has been reduced by over 16,000, which, of course, the developers don’t mind. They must have expected that there’d be plenty of cheaters given the shockingly high number of users they’ve seen come in anyway.
Fortunately, the developers are doing their very best to crack down on players gaining an unfair advantage over others by means other than natural skill and ability. And, apparently, several cheaters have already felt the drop of the hammer.