This is REALLY RIDICULOUS - From Gamespy -
"Recently, a number of
Battlefield 3 players found themselves dishonorably discharged from service without any explanation. So they piped up on
the game's official forums and got quite the enlightening response. Just not from DICE. Anonpbspoofer, a junior member of game hacking site Artificial Aiming wrote in
a forum post:
"We are bringing back the unerring of punkbuster for a 3rd season." We have selected ggc-stream as the target since they have the most streaming bf3 servers and makes it very easy to add fake bans. In 2011 we hit them with a mass ban wave and now were are banning real players from battlelog while ggc-stream is totally unaware. We have framed 150+ bf3 players alone."
The goal? To protest PunkBuster's inclusion in Battlefield 3. You could be forgiven, though, for thinking anonpbspoofer is taking aim at the wrong target.
As a result, Artificial Aiming has distanced itself from what it's now labeled a rogue member lashing out alone. "This has nothing to do with AA," a staffer
wrote. "The person who posted the first link is a junior member here."
EA, meanwhile, is "aware" of PunkBuster problems, but doesn't seem quite ready to acknowledge the banhammer-wielding menace. EA explained in a statement to
Kotaku:
"We are aware that some Battlefield 3 players are experiencing connection issues with PunkBuster enabled servers. This problem is limited to a small subset of players on PC and will not impact players on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. We are actively looking into the specifics of this issue and we are confident that we will have a permanent solution in place shortly."
"In the meantime, if a player's connectivity has been affected, we recommend that in the interim they join servers that are not running PunkBuster. There is a filter setting for this in the multiplayer server browser."
So that's where we're at for now. Why, I ask you, does real-life vigilante "justice" always have to blow up in everyone's faces? I'm thinking it's either the lack of a high-tech bat costume or, you know, that other thing: brains."
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So in effect, EA/Dice expect us to play on non-pb enabled servers!? The very same servers that are possibly filled with people who hack without worry or concern about PB!? That sounds REALLY smart. Unbelievable......