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Hello support team and developers, thank you for creating the wonderful (yet frustrating) game that we love called Vigor. That being said, We have an issue here that I believe any responsible Dev team should place a priority upon addressing. We need to have a serious conversation about the surprising amount of cheating that We ( everyone) may experience every time we play Vigor, specifically in the form of highly ranked players teaming up in the free-for-all game mode Encounter. I understand this has been discussed before. I also understand that you have admitted to using reasoning at least once before to close a thread discussing this very topic in which you indicated that, essentially, two people were arguing and cursing at each other. That was a ypretty convenient reason to close a thread with bad optics, let’s see what happens to this one. What was not convenient for myself, was my two best Xbox live friends dropping Vigor like a hot potato because of people teaming up in free for all CONTINUOUSLY and nothing being done to prevent this from happening. I told my friends that it rarely happens, as both of them separately reported to me that they had been teamed up on, or invited to team up on other players, several times. As they were complaining about it, I totally agreed with them that yes, it does happen but pretty rarely, Or so I thought! Unfortunately, I was wrong. In totality, once you have the eyes to see it and experience identifying it, you see it ends up happening in a significant enough amount of matches to make you wonder what the developer is doing when they spend time on updates and new maps but zero time on eliminating the blatant cheating when it would be very easy to do so. Other games have done so. That’s all there is to it. It’s almost as if it’s supported? (Hint: it’s supported. Whales and their brethren are the biggest money makers in free-to-play games.) I found out that it is supported the hard way. See, I sent a message to one of a group of THREE people who were teamed up together on Broadalen Bridge, the only time I’ve ever been able to accurately and positively identify a team of three, thank gosh! Something like, “for real? You have to team up with two other people to effectively participate in free-for-all matches?” Their response was one that I did not expect. Usually I get apologies, shyness or embarrassment. You see, people know that what they are doing is wrong. Cheaters know that they have been cheating. This time, the answer was something to the effect of ‘lol you suck noob, the Vigor devs support this, look it up! ‘. And that is why I am here today, folks. I did look it up, and I found the developers largely downplaying a significant cheating issue which I am trying to understand how a development team actually thought was a good idea. It’s because of the amount of money they make from these wealthy highly ranked players who make many purchases and feel they must “cheat” often in the above described fashion in order to keep up with others who cheat as well, often in furtherance of self perpetuation of the myth that they are a good player. Before a significant number of games start, while in the lobby, I receive a party invite or friend request or the like from someone else in the game lobby. . At first, I Naively would assume that they wanted to team up in a future match, only to realize literally one hundred percent of the time that they want to team up in THIS free for all game mode. Every single time I am asked this, I respond in a similar manner. I always tell them how I feel so they can hopefully understand that they are literally ruining the game for many players and helping keep the Vigor user base small. Are you kidding me? You’re asking me if I want to cheat me way through this match? I play this game to have fun. I would not have fun if there was no challenge, coming from the fact that I had the advantage at all times knowing it was always 2 against 1.’ Why would you ever cheat yourself out of an enjoyable time like that? To get a better ranking? It’s very interesting, I I think. Thats why no one except gramps likes playing games on Easy mode. Unless you suck. Yes, that’s correct. Teaming up in Vigor Free-for-all matches is for people who suck. Any self respecting human being would clearly have the guts to brave the outlands on their own, without their mommy or daddy close to them at all times. That system is indicative of a completely broken game that DOES NOT work as intended. The main game mode, Encounter, is NOT currently a free-for-all game mode. It is “hopefully” free for all, with a significant chance you’ll get some cheaters teaming up in your match, ruining your fun and making you wonder why you even play this game in the first place and why you spent money on that armor and portable signal detector when you have to face two enemies at once. if this thread is deleted or otherwise fails to appear, it will reappear, thrice fold and more in other locations across the net. Please guys, let this be the final and only resting place for this topic and thread. I don’t want to have to spend the time to let everyone know about this but this is kind of an evaluation of a developopet at this point. Players, do your due diligence and spread this word. Pressure these developers (who have created a good game here, aside from this blatant cheating.) to actually do something to address these blatant cheating issues that favor the rich whales that form the bulk of the surplus revenue for the developer. They are catering to these “pro” cheaters by allowing them to play with each other in free for all mode without penalty. I am SO tired of playing with two clan members in a free for all game mode. That is just ridiculous. You know why that happens? Because the player base is so small that it’s actuall possible for players in the same clan to join the same match. Why is the player base small? We have been discussing that! This is a huge oversight in my opinion by the developers. You could have marketed this game so much better but instead you rely on selling it to a few whales instead of all the players who play fairly without cheating by teaming up! also, Please, do NOT be rude to the devs as even I understand they are caught in a spot here where they are trying to cater to their wealthy player base that spends money all the time (the cheaters; the free for all team-uppers, the ‘I will do or pay for anything to get an advantage’ kind of people. These people probably lack integrity in real life too, it is what it is. and the ultimate end all be all is the following fact: the developers made a system where there are two ways to play vigor. One way is WITH teams. That is, every single player is either part of a team or has selected the lone wolf option. The only other way the developers have allowed us to play the game is of course the exact opposite, without teams, a free-for-all game mode. This, due to the fact that the other game mode has teams, it makes literally zero sense for you to support people teaming up in this free for all mode! If they want to play teams, they can select that mode! I want to play by myself some times so I select free for all. In fact I almost exclusively play this mode nor that my friends have abandoned the game, haha! It’s time for the gaming community to stand up for ourselves. I ended up spending some money on Vigor because I truly like the game (with its many flaws) and wanted to support the job, and continued effort, that the developers have given. After finding out, however, how widespread this cheating issue of teaming up in free-for-all game mode is, I am feeling pretty stupid that I paid money for this game. I’m feeling like I got suckered and lied to. I feel like I’m playing a game in which the developers support cheaters because they make them miney. Gosh, it’s just like the government now that I think about it! 😉 but that’s for another day. thank you all for reading and I hope you all take this seriously, devs. Thank you very much for creating this game and I really do like it. I just don’t understand why you hold the little guy down and go so far out of your way to keep the Vigor player base small.you are effectively sabotaging your own game for money. In doing so, you have sacrificed sales from the future in Vigor and most definitely sacrificed sales from your next future game release. It kind of boggles the mind that this strategy would be used, so I think we deserve an explanation? Thank you! -Sincerely, Matthew Just Want The Truth Integrity is the light that guides my way Seahawks12