Critical Ops - Ban Strike

Critical Ops developers banned reported players recklessly after sudden rise in number of hackers.

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So what is Critical Ops?
Critical Ops (abbreviated to C-OPS) is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Critical Force, and it is influenced by Counter-Strike. It was released to Open Alpha in September 2015 for Google Play and had been in beta until the full version (1.0) was released in November 2018. Critical Ops is currently available on Google Play, Apple Appstore, and Amazon Appstore. It used to be available on PC through Facebook Gameroom, but got shut down on July 10, 2017.The first official Critical Ops tournament was played in 2016. As of September 2018, the game had been downloaded over 34 million times and buy the time this post was made it crossed half a million on play store alone.

My review of this game:
First of all would say the game has mind-blowing graphics even on budget devices with buttery smooth performance (around 56 fps on my iPad Air 2 on Ultra settings). And the best part of the game is that you rarely face any bugs while playing. From bugs I mean fps drops and high ping issues sometimes because of game servers not being strong in some regions but the game is still playable without severe lag even at ping as high as 150. But there is one thing which makes this game incomplete is the ability to voice chat with other players.

Want to know more about the game? Here is the wiki link : [##fa-wikipedia-w##]

Let's cut to the chase and move to the Ban Strike:
What was the cause of sudden increase in number of hackers?
Recently when iOS 12.4 update was pushed out security researchers discovered that a vulnerability that Apple patched in iOS 12.3 was accidentally unpatched in iOS 12.4 and after hackers discovered that the vulnerability was once again available, it didn't take long for a jailbreak to be created. The reporters believe that this was the main cause behind hacks being applied to the game. Primary source for hacking software was discovered to be iOSGods (Hacks and DIY tricks community), providing ESP and aim bot hacks.

The Ban Strike by Critical Ops developers:
After receiving huge number of reports soon after the jailbreak issue game developers finally decided to take them seriously. Here are the things they implemented:

1. No more light punishments... they permanently banned hacked accounts.
2. Removal of replace device account with cloud account to stop hackers again creating new accounts. 
3. Some game servers were taken down to clear some hacker rubbish.

What went wrong?
After receiving so many hacking reports the game developers recklessly banned the players without complete investigation. This lead to some legit players getting banned as well. According to some of them due to high ping and low ping differences players got killed through walls and errors with aim assist due to this ping issue. Players got accidental head-shots and behind wall kills. And after being falsely reported they were banned without developers properly investigating the real cause. As of now there is no reply to the false ban appeals.

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