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Apex Legends has banned more than 16,000 players

With more than 25 million players, there are bound to be a few that are willing to do unethical things to become champions.
Eirik Hyldbakk Furu Editor-in-Chief Norway 18 February 2019

Having many players is great and all, but high player numbers usually also means that there are bound to be a few bad apples in the bunch, so Respawn Entertainment's latest update shouldn't surprise anyone.

Just before the weekend, the studio revealed that they've banned more than 16,000 of Apex Legends' 25,000,000+ players and that they'll continue to hover the ban hammer over potential cheaters. With such a large player base, they obviously appreciate any help they can get, so they urge us to report cheaters here. That's your best option right now, but they've heard our need for an in-game report system and it sounds like they're working on it.

Is this amount of banned players surprisingly high, low or just perfect compared to what you expected?

Editor-in-Chief Norway Eirik Hyldbakk Furu wrote for Gamereactor from around 2015 to 2026, first as news editor and from 2022 as editor-in-chief of the Norwegian edition. He covered video games across news, previews and reviews for both the Norwegian and international sites.
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