Respawn banned around 3,100 Apex Legends<\/em> players for boosting each other in ranked lobbies by trading kills for points on May 8 as the studio’s war against cheaters continues.<\/p>
This form of boosting has been running rampant in Respawn’s battle royale in recent months. It reached the point where console leaderboards were reportedly filled with boosters<\/a>, and since nothing was being done about it, a third-party site created a private tool<\/a> to detect lobbies with boosters, highlight the booster\u2019s accounts, and more. Pressure had been mounting on Respawn to ban them ever since, and now the deed is done.<\/p>
It\u2019s not the first time the EA-owned company has banned lots of boosters in one wave. In Nov. 2020, it banned more than 400 high-ranked players for using an exploit to farm low-rank lobbies<\/a>. Two years later, in July 2022, it continued the trend by banning thousands for using an exploit to boost themselves and friends<\/a> in the Ranked Arena mode.<\/p>
