Battlefield 3 Bans Gone Wrong?

The Battlelog forums and reddit each feature threads with posts from a surprising number of users claiming they've been banned from playing Battlefield 3 online due to PunkBuster violations in spite of no wrongdoing. Kotaku points the way to an apparent explanation on a site that sells and supports cheats for the game where posts describe a systematic campaign that's currently underway to get innocent users banned to demonstrate the fallibility of the PunkBuster methodology. A recent post to Battlelog from a moderator says: "PB is having an issue at the moment.. DICE and EA are working with Even balance to find cause and fix it asap!" Thanks The Grifter.
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Jan 24, 2012, 14:04
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eunichron wrote on Jan 24, 2012, 14:00:
It wasn't sarcastic at all. If you read all the articles there are certain cheaters out there actively working to get innocent GGC-stream and PBBans GUIDs permanently banned, and as far as GGC-Stream and PBBans admins are concerned they look totally legit and can't be appealed.

If everyone is banned, then there is no one left to play the game.

Errr fair enough but it is very trivial for them to undo bans over a date range and they can always reban the actual cheaters later. There is no way they would just leave the banlist intact if it suddenly inflated by 200,000 over a few days. It's not really a big deal so long as they deal with it instead of taking forever as Dice is prone to do.

As for the games popularity it seems to ebb and flow with the patches like most other games. I never have problems finding decent servers and I host a few myself which are full the majority of the time. Things were much worse a month ago, the Skyrim launch pretty much bankrupted the game of players for quite awhile Skyrim hoopla dying down and the Karkand stuff reinvigorated interest which has remained pretty high.

Of course they could triple their player base by simply putting it on Steam but that's a bitch for a different thread.
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