According to numbers provided to IGN by Ubisoft, Rainbow Six Siege's

Rainbow Six Siege player activity since launch

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The actual number of daily active users is up 40%, and the spike comes on the heels of the new content update, Skull Rain, which went live last week The developers of Rainbow Six: Siege recently began banning "thousands" of players who have been cheating, as detected by Battle-Eye, the recently implemented client-side anti-cheat system."We invest in Rainbow Six Siege as we would invest in our own home - we check the pipes, the foundations and everything else," said creative director Xavier Marquis. "That's because we are here to stay."For more, read IGN's Rainbow Six Siege review

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