Rainbow Six Siege now using users’ phone numbers to blacklist cheaters

Developers of multiplayer games are waging a never-ending war on cheating. There will always be players that try to gain the upper hand on others by breaking and bending the rules, and there will always be people trying to stop them. That’s just the cycle of any sort of game.

Cheating is usually a big issue in PvP games with a tight focus on mechanical skill, such as Rainbow Six Siege. With so many angles players need to worry about while playing the game, not to mention how quickly guns and other weapons can eliminate enemies, it’s easy to see how tuning on an aimbot or wall hacking can instantly boost a player’s profile and skill level.