Gamers zoeken vaak exploits in een game om sneller in level te stijgen of speciale items te vergaren, het zogeheten 'boosten'. Het kan echter ook andersom, in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare plegen spelers massaal zelfmoord, hetgeen 'reverse boosting' wordt genoemd.
Het plegen van zelfmoord, bijvoorbeeld door een granaat voor je eigen voeten te werpen, zorgt ervoor dat je in volgende matches tegen lager gekwalificeerde spelers zal worden ingeschaald. In deze matches kun je vervolgens domineren, waardoor je uiteindelijk sneller zult levellen dan je zou doen bij normale matchmaking.
Blijkbaar is 'reverse boosting' dermate in populariteit toegenomen dat Sledgehammer baas en mede-oprichter Michael Condrey in de pen is geklommen om zijn ongenoegen te laten blijken. In een blog, welke hieronder te lezen is, laat hij weten dat spelers kunnen rekenen op een ban wanneer ze deze methoden aanhouden.
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"Playing at home, I’ve been randomly matched with players doing this and it’s incredibly frustrating to lose based largely on my team being down a contributing teammate. We’ve also had a lot of players bring up their same concern about playing in matches with these players. No one wants to lose an objective based match by effectively being outnumbered while their teammate shoots grenades into their own forehead 100 times in the corner.
It’s not right, and it hurts you and your team’s online experience. Call of Duty is both social and competitive, and we respect and honour that. Part of the competition that is core to our values is that players do not adversely degrade their team's ability to compete fairly. It's not dissimilar from the bans that cheaters and boosters receive, and we have increased our focus on reverse boost banning to combat the growing issue.
No one is trying to restrict the fun factor of playing Advanced Warfare with this policy, nor are we actively banning against particular styles of play, like trick shots. However, we have a low tolerance approach to people who ruin the experience for others through cheating, boosting, reverse boosting or being caught with toxic emblems in game. We don’t like seeing any of these happen, and we're pushing to eliminate these behaviours from the game."
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