Rockstar posted on their blog, “We’re aware that a small minority of players are spoiling the Max Payne 3 multiplayer experience for honest players with cheats and hacks, and while certain issues will be dealt with in forthcoming title updates, today we’d like to make it clear that anyone using these nefarious methods will be dealt with. Anyone found to have used hacked saves, modded games, or other exploits to gain an unfair advantage in Max Payne 3 Multiplayer, or to circumvent the leaderboards will be quarantined from all other players into a ‘Cheaters Pool’, where they’ll only be able to compete in multiplayer matches with other confirmed miscreants.”
Should Rockstar decide to actually forgive these cheaters of their past transgressions, they can then have a second chance to play with everyone else the fair and square way. However, a second offense is anathema – resulting in an indefinite banishment. Nothing like a little bit of old fashioned discipline to have people toe the line, no?