The biggest flaw with freemium games is that they become infested with cheaters, because there's no economic cost to starting over with a new account. That's a

The biggest flaw with freemium games is that they become infested with cheaters, because there's no economic cost to starting over with a new account. That's assuming anyone is even doing anything about them cheating in the first place. Most publishers seem to only react when streamers draw attention to someone cheating. I saw a COD: warzone youtube video where the streamer got someone banned by messaging an activision employee; the player was riding around on an ATV, instantly shooting every player. They get bounced mid-game. It's a "fuck yaeaaaa, activision!" moment...until the streamer goes and looks at their game stats and sees that they had a lifetime K/D ratio of something like 20, where TWO is practically world-class...and that they'd played dozens of games. The streamer asks: why weren't they bounced (or at least subject to account review) simply by having wildly off-the-chart stats alone? Because Activision doesn't care. Cheaters don't really impact their bottom line.