Paywall the crucible for the seasonal price tag to curb the amount of cheaters
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This game always had tons of hackers even since day one. The only difference is now the player base is so tiny you run into them a lot more. Putting in a paywall of some kind to make it harder for hackers would not lower their numbers at all. It would only be a tiny minor inconvenience for them. The only thing that would possibly stop hackers would be to switch to dedicated servers because dedicated servers allow for the company using them to have much tighter and stricter control over things.