Updated 21/05 8:19am:
Daybreak Game Company president John Smedley was briefly reinstating banned accounts if the player in question created a YouTube video apologising to the community for their deeds. It was a limited time offer though, and only five accounts were reinstated in total.
Dear Cheaters who got banned. Many of you are emailing me, apologizing and admitting it. Thank you. However.. You're doing it wrong
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) May 20, 2015
If you want us to even consider your apology a public YouTube apology is necessary. No personal information please. Email me the link
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) May 20, 2015
Please address your apology to fellow players, not us. Although you hurt our business this is about them not us
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) May 20, 2015
First one. Going to be honest I wish it wasn't about the money, but he's first and that means something. https://t.co/s6otGIqZ25
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) May 20, 2015
only accepting videos till Noon PST today (that's in an hour and a half). So far we've actually said no to a bunch.
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) May 20, 2015
ok. that's it. 5 people. no more. some think that's 5 too many, but I'll trade the attention on the subject of cheating for that any day.
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) May 20, 2015Original story 21/05 7:55am:
Daybreak Game Company has dropped the banhammer on a staggering 24,837 H1Z1 players.
Considering that the game's concurrent player peak is a shade over 40,000 and that its current player count sits at around 10,000, that’s a fair portion of its player base.
Daybreak president John Smedley also called out cheat-enabling sites such as TMCheats on Twitter.
"As a proud PC gamer that site and others like it disgust me and we collectively need to put them out of business," Smedley wrote.
"You don't think we know these cockroaches? We do. We are going to be relentless and public. Screw not provoking them.”
24,837 have been banned for cheating.
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) May 18, 2015@H1Z1Insider you don't think we know these cockroaches? We do. We are going to be relentless and public. Screw not provoking them.
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) May 19, 2015
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