PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds cheating is out of control

Cheating is a part of online gaming, but this doesn’t mean people will put up with it — even in something as popular as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. And the huge number of cheaters in matches of developer Bluehole Studio’s last-person-standing shooter is threatening the fun and viability of this 2017 sensation.

On Friday, I hosted the GamesBeat Family Dinner livestream on Twitch, where gaming-industry folks and their fans get together and play matches of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Normally, this is a pretty chill time where everyone makes fun of Iron Galaxies cofounder Dave Lang for never getting any kills. But on this night, through the first four matches or so, every single one of our meaningless custom games had a cheater in it.