It’s about 6 months consistently now that this hasn’t seen a fix.
It was explained by another forum member that the 3rd party program(s) responsible for looting chest has become so engulfing that Funcom can’t keep up and are impossible to address due to various factors.
Which can be very true; they have a lot of different responsibilities in the game and it’s not a Funcom only problem. They also have a new Age coming, they’re constantly rolling out new content in BP and BLB, working on bug fixes, etc.,…
However, Funcom used to be concerned with cheating back in the early days. Their communication has reduced as time goes by. I have asked repeatedly, in live streams, announcements and my own post. At least something, anything, would be nice. It can be argued that they don’t talk about it because they do not want to tip off the 3rd party developers. But I don’t think any of us affected want to know specifics, only that they care and want to do something about it.
Certainly Official PVP and to a degree makes running a cheat free private server more stressful.
PVP has a small population. It was never huge by any means but was loud and proud. The Official servers on PC are hanging on by threads and for my region has been reduced to 2 semi populated but are infested with hackers. When I was still playing, clan and I had to come up with creative ways to ensure we could hang on to a semblance of loot to be effective. Usually the cheats would come in late at night after raid time; now they’re coming around during raid time to loot. No shame.
They’re also hitbox pulling thralls and animals so loot is no longer safe within those inventories.
A clan of hackers told me in January that they were going to take down all Official servers. Heard through the grapevine that in cheater spaces that this was true. I believe it because it is happening.
About 2 months ago PVE-C started to see some of the cheats. When all the entertainment is gone or goal is accomplished they’re going to go for both PVE-C and PVE. Then what?