Apex Legends cheat-makers can earn $400 a week

The struggle of Apex Legends developers to fight cheaters continues: at the end of last week, Respawn Entertainment reported about 355 thousand banned. Kotaku's Editor-in-Chief Cecilia D'Anastasio decided to check how serious the threat of cheating in the most popular Battle Royale of 2019 could be and interviewed a couple of prohibited programs creators. 

One of them, nicknamed Dev, said that he had previously had same 'business' in Fortnite. But Epic Games improved the security system, started suing cheat-creators, so this smart fellow decided to move to a less secure project. He says that Apex Legends fits very well for him: nowadays it's quite easy to make cheat programs for a shooter. Dev was not the only one to move from Fortnite — several pro-cheat-makers also switched their attention to the Titanfall universe Battle Royale game. According to Dev, in the first four days of his Apex Legends 'job', he earned about $5.000 (these words are confirmed by a screenshot sent to the editor).

Cheat creators actively advertise their products online with real-time gameplay videos. Dev's teammate Tom, for example, shot 30 players per one game, but his account is still not banned. Another Cecilia's interviewee, Adam, said that the market is literally demanding to make these programs for Apex Legends — Adam's weekly income is around $400.

As for the cheat-users, Apex is attractive because of the banning system — if you are banned, you can safely create a new profile by changing your computer's identification. Dev claims that such an operation is available through free software. Programmers also said that they have a couple of favourite characters that allow them to even better disguise cheat usage. Tom plays Bangalore, shooting unsuspecting gamers through the smoke, Dev's partner Timothy loves Bloodhound.

We remind you that Respawn Entertainment had promised to improve their own anti-cheat systems and are going to introduce reports on suspicious activity in the game (CS:GO like). So the cheat-makers understand that, sooner or later, they will have to leave for another, maybe even more high-levelled project. 

A great passive perquisite, isn't it?