Apex Legends is currently offline thanks to a cyber-attack from the Titanfall community. If you log into the game on PC, you’ll be greeted by a message that says “visit and repost savetitanfall.com” and find that the only available game mode SAVETITANFALL.COM, which launches training mode. You can’t select any other playlist right now. An hour ago, Respawn tweeted that it was investigating the issue. Apex Legends has been offline on PC for over 10 hours.

If you visit savetitanfall.com, you’ll find a short manifesto outlining the ways that developer Respawn has failed to combat cheaters in the original Titanfall and for years has swept the issue under the rug. This, according to the website creator, is an act of fraud. “Respawn and Electronic Arts have the resources to fix these issues,” the website states. “Yet they don’t, knowingly continuing to sell a game that does not work as advertised, and doesn’t work at all.”

The hack on Apex Legends is a desperate attempt to draw attention to savetitanfall.com — whose staff has publically disavowed the hack — and the Titanfall community that is fed up with hackers in the game. While the stunt has certainly brought a lot of attention to the issue, it will no doubt fail in its ultimate mission to eliminate cheaters from Titanfall. The only thing this example of extreme gamer entitlement will accomplish is getting a bunch of devs to work overtime on a holiday weekend.

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The issues that face Titanfall and its community are not unique to that game, but rather endemic to the entire online/live service industry. The most popular, profitable games in the world — including Apex Legends — are in a constant battle with cheaters and hackers. Older games with smaller player bases receive less support and therefore less work is being done to stop cheaters. This is just basic economics, and attacking a different game made by different people isn’t going to change that.

Savetitanfall.com claims that Respawn is pretending not to know about this issue and that “Even when the developers have been directly contacted, as soon as the topic of the Titanfall 1 problem is brought up, they stop replying.” First of all, contacting developers directly, whether through email or social media, about an issue you have with a game they work on, is wildly inappropriate and just about the most counterproductive thing you can do. If you want developers to help you, harassing them personally is absolutely not the way to do it. Furthermore, Respawn has directly responded to this issue as recently as last month. Respawn’s director of communications, Ryan K Rigney, has also lamented the hacker problem publicly. The Titanfall team is obviously aware of the problem and is working to resolve it. The question is, how does taking Apex Legends offline help them?

The preservation of online games and the diminishing support of live service games is a real issue, and it’s something that the game industry will one day need to reckon with. Beyond subscription games like World of Warcraft, online games simply can’t live on forever. I think there’s a reasonable argument to be made that Titanfall shouldn’t be sold if it isn’t playable. If this issue has made the game unplayable for multiple years, someone might be able to make a case that the continued sale of the game constitutes some kind of fraud, or at the very least, false advertising. But we have recourse when companies break the law. You can vote with your wallet and stop supporting studios you don’t trust, or hell, you can file a lawsuit if you’re that passionate about it.

But there is absolutely no sense in doing what these hackers have done. Committing an illegal cyber-attack does not communicate passion, and it certainly won’t ingratiate you to the people you’re asking for help. This will not get Titanfall fixed any faster. In fact, the only thing it might accomplish is getting Titanfall taken off Steam and Origin. Shutting the servers down on a seven-year-old game with less than 100 concurrent players seems like a way more likely outcome.

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