Escape from Tarkov puts a bounty on cheaters and rewards snitching

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The hardcore shooter Escape from Tarkov now rewards snitching. Anyone who finds a cheater in the game and tells the developers will receive a bounty if the villain is actually banned. Players are discussing the amount of the reward.

This is the new rule: With patch 0.14.9.5 on July 4, 2024, Escape from Tarkov introduced a new feature:

  • Players receive in-game currency as a reward for reporting a player if the report leads to a ban of the evil villain: Officially, it is referred to as “someone who violates the rule”, but it mainly refers to cheaters
  • The in-game cash reward comes with a message that the culprit has been blocked.
  • Those who deliver several successful reports will be rewarded multiple times

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    Is the reward too low or just right?

    This is how it is discussed: In a reddit thread from July 6, players discuss the new system.

  • Low to high 5-digit sums of rubles will probably be paid out
  • One says he received 78,000 rubles for a report – another says he received 20,900 rubles

    • Players say it is not entirely clear how the reward will be calculated, but the general consensus is that it is relatively small and does not cover the cost of being eliminated by a cheater

    But nobody seems to think that’s such a bad thing. One player explains: That’s exactly how it should be. If you were getting a lot more rubles, say 500,000 per report, then you would just report everyone for the small chance of getting it right and making a lot of money.

    In general, the system is well received by players. Players had already requested measures against cheaters and similar systems to the one currently in place five years ago.

    People are now reminding each other to use the system responsibly so that they actually report cheaters and not just much better players.

    Escape from Tarkov is considered an “authentic, exciting” alternative to western shooters like Call of Duty. But a debate in recent months has squandered a lot of the goodwill that the developers had received over the years: Escape from Tarkov players are furious because the developers are hiding the new PvE mode behind a price tag of €250.

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