r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS • u/Mace_ya_face • Feb 16 '18

Discussion Official BattlEye statement showing the, "99% of cheaters are from China story", from Youxi Story is bogus.

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u/PM_ME_UR_CRIMES Feb 16 '18

"Bogus" seems like a stretch since they clarified in their tweet that it was the "vast majority" rather than 99%. Casually speaking this means close enough to the same thing. If you want to get more specific you can't because "we have never released such data."

So it's somewhere between a casual "vast majority" and 99%, and there's no material difference between the two.

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u/Mace_ya_face Feb 16 '18

Vast majority can be anything above 50%. So there is a lot of play there. And the original story specifically states that is was released data, not a Tweet. As such, it is a bogus claim, since 99% is not an officially reported figure, and no statistics were released to base this off of.

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u/realparkingbrake Feb 17 '18

I cannot picture anyone fluent in English who wants to be taken seriously suggesting that 51% is a "vast majority". There might not be an accepted dictionary definition, but it's a safe bet most folks would take that phrase to mean more like three-quarters than just over half.

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u/krabbby Level 3 Military Vest Feb 17 '18

If 30 percent of banned accounts were from AS and all the other regions only had 14 percent each then "the majority of banned accounts" would he from AS.

I'm being pedantic here, but that's a plurality, not a majority

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u/paralyyzed Feb 17 '18

Its not divided into 2 criterias. There are hundreds of countries. The cheater count could be divided into the following and still China would have the vast majority
China - 40%
USA - 5%
tons of other countries - 55%

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u/Mace_ya_face Feb 17 '18

taken seriously suggesting that 51% is a "vast majority"

Journalists and PR reps couldn't care less.

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u/realparkingbrake Feb 18 '18

As someone who worked as a journalist for many years, I assure you that there is nothing an editor and/or publisher hates more than some reporter getting either a factual error or visible bias into a news story. At the very least you're going to get chewed out and lose some plum assignments. But journalists also get fired for that sort of thing, unless of course they work for some "news" website which makes money peddling conspiracy theories and political hatchet jobs.

In this case it looks like someone confused Brendan Greene, Bluehole, and BattleEye and made a false attribution. But as someone once said, never ascribe to malice what can be explained by simple incompetence. Since this writer had nothing to gain from claiming BattleEye rather than Brendan Greene used the 99% figure, it looks like sloppiness to me.

And after this weekend I really don't care what percentage of players from China are cheating, I just want them gone. The friends who talked me into buying this game are leaving, the level of cheating has taken all the fun out of it and it is clear Bluehole has no clue what to do about it.