Phone Verification
Wanna get rid of cheaters Phone verification simple people need to be held accountable BHVR said they banned 200000 or some high number can't really remember but regardless why are there more now than ever before because they get banned and hop on one of their 30 alt account with a free copy of DBD they got from the epic store. Its such simple solution give number get texted a code verified and youre good that way some guys 30 alt become invalid and if they get banned no more new account the phone # will be useless because the # is associated with a banned account end of story
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Burner phones, Internet phones that you can change the phone number at will, nice try tho.
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Those are ways around your proposed fix
Just because something isn't 100% effective doesn't mean you don't do it. There is no silver bullet, but phone verification can make things harder. We will likely see phone verification if the game goes F2P. Currently, they lack a mechanism to do this. If they made a Behavior Account a requirement to play would be a start. I wish they would, even without cross-progression, so we can quickly redeem codes on a desktop as a console player.
In order to play you should have to make BHVR account with email, and phone verification
Right cause you cant get unlimited free email accounts to make behaviour accounts. Your talking about putting up speedlimit signs, when what you need are speedbumps.
Can you think of a 100% foolproof system? It doesn't exist! So what's the next best thing? You introduce barriers to make things a little harder, a little more time-consuming to accomplish. Which is what the big dogs in the industry are doing, like Ubisoft, Bungie, Blizzard, Activision, etc. Some of them even go so far as to restrict certain domains and phone types including VOIP.
Sure every account has to be tied to a valid credit card.
Its an equally terrible idea for completely different reasons, but definitely would be much more successful
No offence to BHVR intended when I say this
But their game has had recent security issues that's gotten people DDosed and (I think, Alledgedly) Swatted. I wouldn't trust them with my Birth date, nevermind my phone number
No need to obfuscate, I never advocated for anything. The only thing I said was that I wish we could use the account for consoles, for the purposes of redeeming codes. It's a little tedious to redeem some of these long codes without a keyboard on a controller.
With that said, it's worth noting that you still didn't address my point because my point is compelling. There's no silver bullet, but that doesn't mean nothing should be done. Credit card is not going to work for many reasons, including the financial regulatory hurdles that they would have to go through. At least keep your suggestions accurate and applicable.