Vikkstar quitting Warzone due to the game being flooded with cheaters had greater implications for Facebook Gaming as the social media company has taken steps to address the streamers who use unfair means to gain advantage.
Cheaters in multiplayer games have existed for as long as anyone can remember, and its frustrating to face them for obvious reason. Player encountering a cheater often gets frustrated to extent that they are willing to bail on the game, and the same happened with Sidemen member Vikkstar. He released a video addressing his frustration and how cheaters left him no choice but to quit the game once and for all.
His video gained enough traction to attract the attention of Facebook Gaming’s dev team who since then has taken steps to address the persistent issue of streamers cheating. This is not the first time streamers are openly cheating which their audience surprisingly find funny and as other platforms have concrete guidelines against the same thus Facebook Gaming was housing such content until now.
Esports insider Rod Breslau aka Slasher has tweet about the intentions of Facebook going forward that expresses the social media’s no tolerance intention towards cheaters while specifying the action taken against the particular cheater Vik mentioned. According to the Facebook insider, the cheater has been stripped off any Level Up and Partnership Program offered by Facebook while promising similar punishment for every streamer convicted of the same.
Vikkstar since then in involved in an open life of communication directly with Activison to deal with the issue and is hoping for some positive change to head his way. Having Activision directly contacting players means they are all over the problem and looking to fix all the possible gateways that lets the cheaters in. Hackers are not limited to just regular warzone but the players of CDL are also facing similar accusations.
