H1Z1 makes cheaters publicly apologize
In 2015, after banning some 28,837 players from its online survival game H1Z1, Daybreak Game Company gave players a chance to rejoin the fun, but on one condition: They had to say they were very sorry for what they had done. The ban wave went out, and company president John Smedley said he received numerous emails from users apologizing for their behavior.
However, he made clear that just emailing him wasn’t enough; people who wanted back into H1Z1 would have to make their remorse public through a YouTube video that he would post on his own social channels. Some of these videos have been taken down since, but with the trend of developers publicly shaming people for trying to ruin the fun for others becoming so prominent in the years since, I gotta hand it to Daybreak for finding a clever way to put cheaters on blast. It was ahead of its time.
