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H1Z1 Forces Cheaters to Publicly Apologize

H1Z1 Forces Cheaters to Publicly Apologize

Recently, Daybreak Game Company, the studio behind zombie survival game H1Z1 , has banned over 230,000 players who were caught hacking. But Daybreak isn’t heartless. They are willing to give these players a second chance, provided that they apologize. And not just any apology will do! It needs to be public, on Youtube, mentioning exactly how you cheated, and saying that you are very very sorry. John Smedley of Daybreak has said that many cheaters have e-mailed him personally to apologize, but this just isn’t enough.

“Although you hurt our business, this is about [fellow players] not us,” he said.

“So far we’ve unbanned three people out of 30k we’ve now banned. One of which is probably about to get re-banned for taking his video private,” Smedley added on Reddit.

“I want to make sure it’s clear there are consequences for cheating. You don’t just get to make a video and get unbanned. This is a very limited time thing to try and raise awareness of what’s actually going on. You may say, ‘hey there clearly aren’t consequences if you are unbanning people’. Let’s get back to the part where I said we’ve unbanned three people. If these videos go far and wide and it elevates the importance of getting rid of the cheaters in PC gaming, I feel it’s an excellent trade.”

H1Z1 Forces Cheaters to Publicly Apologize

Aside from people trying to take their Youtube videos down post-unban or attempting to make them private, there have been plenty of cheaters attempting to, hilariously enough, cheat the system for apologizing for cheating. I suppose it just runs in some people’s blood. Anyone who tries to do so will be banned again. Daybreak is taking a very no nonsense, zero tolerance stance on this policy. Apologize, or stay banned forever.

Needless to say, if you are caught cheating again, you are banned again. It’s unclear as to whether or not you can apologize again to once again get unbanned.

Personally, I love watching these apologies. It’s a solid two minutes of gamers getting their comeuppance. Honestly, I want to see more studios take this stance in the future. Think about what gaming would be like if you instituted this policy for toxic behavior. Gamers would have to apologize for being inflammatory assholes online, publicly! Oh man, the sweet sweet tears of remorse.

Check out some of the apologies below (courtesy of Gamespot ) and let us know what you think about this public apology policy in the comments.

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