Hempfield

Bohemia is gonna do nothing. It's obvious they're relying on private server owners and modders to keep this game alive. You won't get much sympathy from your "fellow" Dayz players either; most of the replies here are gonna be "derpa derp, find a private server" trying to "subtly" promote their own servers in their forum signatures. Fact of the matter is - most of private servers are complete shit, have barely anything to do with Dayz or are just there for 3 people who play on them. If you're into that shit, fine, but stop stuffing that shit down our throats when it's painfully obvious we don't want to participate in that. We want classic Dayz servers with all vanilla options without cheaters, we just wanna press play without downloading and updating 500 dumbass mods. If that's too much to ask of a game that's like 40€ then idk what to say, we've all been scammed. Me, personally, I'm done with this game. Some of my friends as well and instead of telling people how great of a game this can be (which I used to do) I'm now gonna give it terrible reviews wherever I can and actively advise people not to buy it. That's how much scammed I'm feeling by the devs. Just fucking drop the game price to 1€, shut down official forums and twitter, stop driving around in Humvees with Dayz ads on them and tell people openly the devs are not supporting this game anymore. Stop scamming people.

This. I didn't come here, complaining about cheaters, to argue with fellow Dayz players who run or just play on private servers; we should all be united on this issue. I love the original vanilla survival Dayz and I would hate to see it die out because of cheaters. If there's a chance devs might see the complaints and actually address them and do something about the anticheat, we (honest players) all win. If nothing happens, we all lose..eventually, when the cheater situation gets completely out of control, the game gets bad enough rep so there's less and less new and old players and less money for development.

So the anti-cheat system sucks for the game that's not cheap at all and it's still in development and supposedly still supported by the devs. And lol, if you think it is perfectly acceptable that you have to run your own server and ban ENTIRE regions (which kinda feels racist-y, not saying you're one but I met some very good friendly Russian players) just to stop cheating...then idk what to say to you. Btw, what about your server (which I don't see is much populated for most of the time) when you're not online and cheaters from other regions join? They're still gonna cheat, the little players that you have are still gonna get pissed off and probably leave sooner or later. You feel good having to have to run a server just for it to be empty most of the time? If the devs don't care about this game, then fine. I sure as hell wouldn't recommend this game anymore to anyone (which I always would in the past as I felt it was a genuine survival experience which wasn't being constantly ruined by cheaters and awful mods, at least not as much as today). There are way better military shooters out there and for a good survival aspect of the game, you now have to rely on a terrible anti-cheat system and private server owners who probably all have jobs and rl stuff and can't handle cheaters and maintenance themselves all the time. I'm sorry but with that attitude from the devs (and players alike unfortunately as obviously no one seems to care for anything except their own private hubs which will die out this way sooner rather than later) there won't be a decent future for this game. They're pissing off their customers who only want what they paid for. How are the devs supposed to do this? We don't care, we paid full price for this game and demand a certain standard. If battle-eye isn't good, ditch it, get something better. If they don't have funds or the will to make a decent anti-cheat system, then they shouldn't price this game more than 5€.

I thought someone might reply something like this, but I hoped they wouldn't as that sort of solution is completely nonsensical. I paid for this game when it was still in alpha to play on official servers, I paid for Livonia. I didn't pay for it so I would have to run my own server (and there are things stopping me from doing that), and I don't have any special wishes regarding this game's servers. If asking for cheater free official servers is too much, then I feel scammed.

Is anything being done about this? It's terrible on official EU servers; hackers teleporting, wallhacking and aimbotting everywhere all the time. I wish there would be a decent 100% vanilla (any by that I mean 3pp as well) private server with healthy population that runs Livonia, but there is none so official servers are the only option for now and they are being ruined by cheaters.