{"id":1351109,"date":"2025-10-08T19:54:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zdnp8fLMCedxwovW7GHNTC"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:54:39","slug":"as-rainbow-six-siege-x-numbers-continue-to-slide-ubisoft-promises-to-crack-down-on-cheaters-and-prioritize-a-fun-experience-with-future-balance-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/as-rainbow-six-siege-x-numbers-continue-to-slide-ubisoft-promises-to-crack-down-on-cheaters-and-prioritize-a-fun-experience-with-future-balance-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"As Rainbow Six Siege X numbers continue to slide, Ubisoft promises to crack down on cheaters and &#8216;prioritize a fun experience&#8217; with future balance changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Four months after tacking an X onto the team-based shooter <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/rainbow-six-siege-x\/\">Rainbow Six Siege<\/a> and converting it to a free-to-play model, Ubisoft has laid out its priorities for the future of the game, admitting that it hasn&#8217;t &#8220;communicated clearly enough about what [it&#8217;s] been working on&#8221; since the transition.<\/p>\n<p>Rainbow Six Siege saw a big boost in player numbers earlier this year when the X update went live, from more than 66,000 concurrents on Steam on June 9, according to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/359550\/charts\/#1y\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB<\/a>, to more than 142,000 on June 10.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s been a downhill ride ever since, and concurrent player counts now are actually lower than they were immediately prior to the free-to-play shift. User reviews have also taken a turn downward: The overall rating <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/359550\/Tom_Clancys_Rainbow_Six_Siege_X\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Steam<\/a> remains &#8220;very positive&#8221; but recent reviews are &#8220;mixed,&#8221; with an uptick in cheaters seemingly the most common complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Improving Rainbow Six Siege X&#8217;s anti-cheat is the first priority for the dev team: Game director Joshua Mills and creative director Alex Karpazis wrote in <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ubisoft.com\/en-ca\/game\/rainbow-six\/siege\/news-updates\/15Jjr7ozSy928q2aqqGyss\" target=\"_blank\">today&#8217;s update<\/a> that &#8220;our systems in <em>Siege X<\/em> did not keep pace with the surge of cheaters that followed the move to Free Access, though we have made some progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The update doesn&#8217;t go into detail about Ubisoft&#8217;s plans for better anti-cheat for fear of &#8220;tipping off cheat makers to our next move,&#8221; but Mills and Karpazis said plans include targeting &#8220;high profile cheat makers&#8221; and users of &#8220;a single notorious cheat product,&#8221; as well as disrupting exploits in the Siege X marketplace and handing out permabans to people caught using them.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know which cheat is the &#8220;most notorious&#8221; in the Siege X community, but aggressive legal action against cheat makers has proven successful in recent years. Bungie, for instance, recently scored a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/court-locks-in-bungies-dollar44-million-win-against-destiny-2-cheat-maker-refuses-request-for-a-new-trial\/\">$4.4 million win<\/a> against cheat maker Aimjunkies, whose website has since been taken offline, and Activision last year hammered EngineOwning for <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/activision-wins-dollar145-million-in-lawsuit-against-call-of-duty-cheat-maker\/\">more than $14.5 million<\/a>. Now that it has a big-time free-to-play shooter of its own, and an attendant horde of cheaters, Ubisoft may have decided that it&#8217;s time to start playing hardball too.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the priority list are a change in how the team approaches balancing to &#8220;prioritize a fun experience,&#8221; which very generally means more buffs and fewer nerfs, and major changes to Ranked play. Ubisoft is also looking at making changes to Siege X seasons &#8220;to bring more substance to mid-season updates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mills and Karpazis said today&#8217;s update isn&#8217;t &#8220;exhaustive&#8221; but committed to sharing more, and asked Siege X players to continue submitting feedback about the game. &#8220;Your passion and commitment keep Siege growing,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;Your priorities are our priorities, and together we&#8217;ll keep building Siege into the best it can be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"daed9647-99b8-48ca-beeb-e5eff6a0a96c\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/as-rainbow-six-siege-x-numbers-continue-to-slide-ubisoft-promises-to-crack-down-on-cheaters-and-prioritize-a-fun-experience-with-future-balance-changes.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"daed9647-99b8-48ca-beeb-e5eff6a0a96c\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/as-rainbow-six-siege-x-numbers-continue-to-slide-ubisoft-promises-to-crack-down-on-cheaters-and-prioritize-a-fun-experience-with-future-balance-changes\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four months after tacking an X onto the team-based shooter Rainbow Six Siege and converting it to a free-to-play model, Ubisoft has laid out its priorities for the future of the game, admitting that it hasn&#8217;t &#8220;communicated clearly enough about what [it&#8217;s] been working on&#8221; since the transition. Rainbow Six Siege saw a big boost in player numbers earlier this year when the X update went live, from more than 66,000 concurrents on Steam on June 9, according to SteamDB, to more than 142,000 on June 10. But it&#8217;s been a downhill ride ever since, and concurrent player counts now are actually lower than they were immediately prior to the free-to-play shift. User reviews have also taken a turn downward: The overall rating on Steam&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/as-rainbow-six-siege-x-numbers-continue-to-slide-ubisoft-promises-to-crack-down-on-cheaters-and-prioritize-a-fun-experience-with-future-balance-changes\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1351110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1351109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>As Rainbow Six Siege X numbers continue to slide, Ubisoft promises to crack down on cheaters and &#039;prioritize a fun experience&#039; 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