Originally Posted by Steak-Sauce Go to original post Originally Posted by

It's all so clear now. The same day UBI announces permanent bans for first offense of hacking, they lower the price of game by 4x so the people caught can just re-buy the game. Shortly after, I start seeing masses of people get banned. This explains why they were in no big hurry to do anything about cheating, because they figured the more people who do it with impunity will keep doing it and, will likely have their parents purchase the game again if caught, in turn making a huge profit after initial sales slowed. The more people who hack, the more ppl will be caught thus the more copies of game will be sold so it makes sense not to do anything about it early on.