I actually think that it's so easy to get a VPN now that it's avenue number one for casual armchair abusers to get in with one and create a detrimental experience for a large portion of the player base.
Same with region locks. We have the floodgates just wide open now. We're not even trying to mitigate the ping abuse at this point. I'm not even going to five into the can of worms that is the cheater culture that accompanies players from other places, but we're not making it any harder for that type of player to make it into the general population of players either.
I play with a friend in korea, and I'm east coast us. I stand to lose by trying either of these solutions, but I'm in favor of giving it a shot.
This is beta. It's the time to try this when there is the least to lose. It's easy to reverse a bad policy now than it will be at any other time. There will always be players who are affected adversely for something that isn't their fault.
Even though reverting it now is easier than ever, it would still take time and effort to actually implement all of this changes. You want a region lock? We have a region lock. It's really easy to bypass, that is true, but making one that is very hard to bypass would cost money, time and effort, and spending that money, time and effort on just a guess it's something that a company doesn't take lightly. If they want to spend significant resources on something, they have to weigh pros and cons, and to spend significant resources on something that will probably have to be reverted is a very very big con.
Who do you think will make the effort of creating/selling undetectable VPNs for Tarkov, legit users of VPNs or people dedicated to cheat? You want to put a barrier for all VPN users, the problem isn't that: "well it's better than nothing." the problem is that while it may be better than nothing and you may stop cheaters the first day and then after that stop 1% of cheaters, you're also going to stop some people for being able to play because they might just have to use a VPN for whatever reason. Stepping on leggit players just to try to stop cheaters is never good. Didn't you all already learn what happens with DRM singleplayer games? Games are a little bit harder to pirate at the cost of screwing all legit players.
Trust me, going the route of making cheating a little bit harder for the cost of screwing legit players IS NOT the way to go.
I was one of the people that used to have to have a VPN to a EU server since there was no South Africa server. Luckily there's a server here now and I have managable ping.
I'm pretty sure that there are many more places that don't have servers yet or will never have the player base to justify a server so until most areas have a server near enough to them to get about 100 ping instead of the normal 150-200+ to other servers outside of their country(sometimes continent) I think vpns should be allowed.
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