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Hello r/FallGuysGame,

today we have a more serious and probably controversial topic we want to discuss with you all.

In the last few days the number of submissions about people cheating on PC has increased massively and these submissions make up a large part of the daily content on this subreddit.

We want you to understand that we do not want to silence this topic. We are affected by this just like you are - and it is frustrating. But we'd also like to point out that Mediatonic has addressed this issue - be it on Twitter (1, 2) or on this subreddit. It is of course up to each one of you to decide whether you consider this response sufficient or not.

But you can be sure that: * Mediatonic is aware of the situation and they know that they must do something about it. * Reporting cheaters on this subreddit won't help. This is a community-run subreddit which some of the developers check from time to time. Your reports will most likely never reach the responsible department for in-game bans. * Also venting on this subreddit about how many cheaters you came across will not improve the situation.

That's why the mod team has decided to do something about these submissions to get them under control. Here is a brief overview of our approach: * We do not want to offer a visual platform to cheaters on this subreddit. That means videos or images showing off cheaters will be removed. This is an effort to try and reduce the amount of players that may be enticed to cheat by seeing it in action. * Written posts that actually promote discussion on this topic are welcome. General rants will be removed (reasons see above). * These restrictions will only last until Mediatonic has updated their anti-cheat solution and made another announcement on this subject.

Before we actually fully enforce this rule, we'd like to hear your opinion. Please vote on the poll below and comment this post with your thoughts.

Thanks!


Poll: How should the mod team handle posts about hackers/cheaters on this subreddit?

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about 4 years ago - /u/FallGuysJoe - Direct link

Originally posted by [deleted]

Of course they want to cover it up, the devs are mods themselves on this sub. Conflict of interest.

This whole thing stinks of "suppress the bad press to milk every cent we can from the game before it dies, because we can't actually fix it."

Edit: This comment is no longer accurate, the 2 MediaTonic employees that were on the mod team of this sub have been removed.

The Devs aren't mods of this sub. I stop by when I can to comment on things but I don't (nor do I want to) decide what can and cannot be posted here.

We could not be working any harder to fix the cheating problem. My $0.02 is that the sub should likely reflect the issues in the game, and right now cheating is a huge issue, so it makes sense that there are a lot of posts about it, but it's up to the community to come to a conclusion there.

If I don't post on cheater comments it's because I have nothing more to add to the conversation. We're aware it's a big problem and that it's getting worse. We're working on it . We'll have a solution soon but we can't give an exact date. Ultimately the only thing worse than hackers is us banning players who are playing fairly, which is the reason we have to take our time and make sure our solution is the right one.