11/30/2025
So apparently there’s a website tracking ARC Raiders players… and I found myself on it.
I looked myself up and it says I have 66 reports from other players.
I’ve played maybe 20 hours total, mostly solo or with my buddy. We’ve met a lot of chill players, lost a ton of games, and honestly just tried to survive like everyone else. In all that time, I’ve only killed two actual players, and that was because they were already shooting at me first.
But according to this site, I’m rated C and labeled as:
“Pretends to be friendly until it’s inconvenient. Mild danger.”
“Not participating / AFK”
“Betrayal – breaking trust or agreements.”
“Rat Tactics – camping, hiding, or avoiding fair combat.”
Like… what?
It’s an extraction game. Everyone, players and bots, is technically an enemy. You do what you have to do to survive. Sometimes we lose. Sometimes we win. Sometimes we avoid fights. Sometimes we fight back. That’s the whole point of the genre.
Now there’s a whole website deciding people are “bad players” based on random reports—no context, no proof, no way to defend yourself. Just strangers labeling others as “dangerous,” “rats,” “betrayers,” or whatever mood they’re in that day.
It honestly makes me wonder what’s wrong with people.
Instead of playing the game, some folks are out here policing playstyles and falsely tagging players just because they lost a fight or didn’t get the outcome they wanted.
If this is what the community is turning into—public shaming lists and made-up reputations—that’s way worse than anything happening in-game.
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