So, I was browsing on the forum and I saw this post from 4 years ago. 👇

[PUBG Cheating Is Out Of Control - PUBG: Battlegrounds - Giant Bomb]

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So I decided to check if after 4 years, after PUBG has gone free to play in January 2022, [Gamespot article link: PUBG Sees 486% Growth In Players After F2P Switch - GameSpot]

If cheaters are still a thing.

Answer? well, it very much is.

Here's an example from Reddit: [Too many cheaters these days (SEA) video]

and I'll also add a quote from some of the comments:

Guys seriously. If PUBG doesn’t do something about the hackers situation in SEA, they are the only people that are going to be left to be playing on the server. All multiplayer games, except a couple maybe, have hackers but the situation on SEA on PUBG is just wild! I’m a fan of the game and given so much time to the game but it’s so unfair to the loyal player base that has to face this every single day.

and here's another related comment:

It’d be really nice if they actually lived up to their anti-cheat promises and at least tried. No multiplayer game is ever free of hackers, but when they decided to make it available for free, the anti-cheat should have been tested and have been live. The hackers have caused plenty of streamers to drift away from playing PUBG specifically because of how unplayable it is on SEA.

As far as my personal experience goes with cheaters, people claim that the most notorious ones are always (mostly?) in the southeast Asia region. They claim it's mostly either Chinese, Vietnamese, or other Asians, especially since news like these happened in March 2021:

[Police bust 'world's biggest' video-game-cheat operation - BBC News]

A collaborative effort between Chinese police and gaming giant Tencent has led to the closure of what police say is the biggest ever video-game-cheat operation.

The gang designed and sold cheats to popular video games, including Overwatch and Call of Duty Mobile.

Roughly $76m (£55m) in revenue was made by the organisation which charged a subscription fee to clients.

Police seized assets worth $46m, including several luxury cars.

In my opinion, really, cheaters could be anyone, but there are certain groups of people to syndicate like this and run a massive operation. 🛠

I'm also thinking of another comparison too, since PUBG and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, are both F2P games now, they both have cheaters until now.

So what do you dudes think? 😎