{"id":654901,"date":"2026-03-31T04:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/apex-legends-6-man-exploit-ban"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:23:08","slug":"hundreds-of-high-ranked-apex-legends-players-have-been-banned-for-6-manning-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hundreds-of-high-ranked-apex-legends-players-have-been-banned-for-6-manning-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of high ranked Apex Legends players have been banned for 6-manning exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hundreds-of-high-ranked-apex-legends-players-have-been-banned-for-6-manning-exploit.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/apex-legends\">Apex Legends<\/a> players who have recently been making use of ranked arena exploits and &ldquo;6-manning&rdquo; may log into the free-to-play battle royale and find themselves suspended or permanently banned from the game. <\/p>\n<p>This comes following a ban wave from the Respawn Entertainment specifically targeting users of these exploits, rather than general hackers or cheaters. According to Conor Ford of the Security team, 1307 users in total have been banned, including almost 1,000 ranked Apex Predators.<\/p>\n<p>A fun fact with this is the split between users banned on particular platforms. The platform with the most exploiters by over 100 bans is PlayStation, followed by PC, Xbox, then the Nintendo Switch with only 20 bans. This could be an indicator of how wonderful the Switch playerbase is, or more likely it&#8217;s a consequence of the far lower player count on that platform &#8211; with that version of the game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/apex-legends-switch-is-ambitious-impressions\">suffering from serious technical flaws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/apex-legends-6-man-exploit-ban\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/apex-legends-6-man-exploit-ban\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apex Legends players who have recently been making use of ranked arena exploits and &ldquo;6-manning&rdquo; may log into the free-to-play battle royale and find themselves suspended or permanently banned from the game. This comes following a ban wave from the Respawn Entertainment specifically targeting users of these exploits, rather than general hackers or cheaters. According to Conor Ford of the Security team, 1307 users in total have been banned, including almost 1,000 ranked Apex Predators. A fun fact with this is the split between users banned on particular platforms. The platform with the most exploiters by over 100 bans is PlayStation, followed by PC, Xbox, then the Nintendo Switch with only 20 bans. This could be an indicator of how wonderful the Switch playerbase is,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hundreds-of-high-ranked-apex-legends-players-have-been-banned-for-6-manning-exploit\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[713,103,47,57,6765,160,21,59,44,45,983,60,4616],"class_list":["post-654901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-apex-legends","tag-battle-royale","tag-blockbuster","tag-ea","tag-fps-shooter","tag-free-to-play","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-pc","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-respawn-entertainment","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hundreds of high ranked Apex Legends players have been banned for 6-manning exploit | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Apex Legends players who have recently been making use of ranked arena exploits and &ldquo;6-manning&rdquo; 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