Reading the official Raven-Shield forums today, I came across a post saying the following:
Now when I first heard about punkbuster and the fact that one infraction while playing on a pb-enabled server could result in a permanent, global banning, chills ran down my spine.
"No!" I thought, "What if you aren't cheating but something goes wrong with pb and it thinks you are cheating. You'd get globally banned for no reason and you'd have to buy a new copy of the game. No program is perfect...what a bad idea."
I was surprised with the response I got on the RvS forums when I let my thoughts on the issue be known. They ranged anywhere from, "Dude, EB(Even balance) are like unto gods. Punkbuster is never wrong...heretic" to stuff like, "dUDeZ Y do U wantz tu h4ve tEh cheeatz?????!!! JuusT dileet Ur HACKZ and ul d0nT have teh worrez ab0uT IT!!1!!one!!1!icantreadbooks!1"
So am I the only one who thinks PB might be a bad thing in some circumstances? The only one who kinda knew something like what's described in the above quote was almost guaranteed to happen?
Warning about ''Game XP'' program
Posted by defain on Sunday, January 11 @ 22:12:47 EST (24 reads)
It has come to our attention that the freeware program "Game XP" will cause a GLOBAL BAN. Do not load or use this program while you are playing any Punk Buster enabled servers. A "GLOBAL BAN" is a ban that is automatically made by Punk Buster. It is not a PunkBusted.com ban. Even Balance is aware of these facts and is working to correct the problem. In the mean time, it is strongly recommended that you do not use this program.
http://www.punksbusted.com/
Now when I first heard about punkbuster and the fact that one infraction while playing on a pb-enabled server could result in a permanent, global banning, chills ran down my spine.
"No!" I thought, "What if you aren't cheating but something goes wrong with pb and it thinks you are cheating. You'd get globally banned for no reason and you'd have to buy a new copy of the game. No program is perfect...what a bad idea."
I was surprised with the response I got on the RvS forums when I let my thoughts on the issue be known. They ranged anywhere from, "Dude, EB(Even balance) are like unto gods. Punkbuster is never wrong...heretic" to stuff like, "dUDeZ Y do U wantz tu h4ve tEh cheeatz?????!!! JuusT dileet Ur HACKZ and ul d0nT have teh worrez ab0uT IT!!1!!one!!1!icantreadbooks!1"
So am I the only one who thinks PB might be a bad thing in some circumstances? The only one who kinda knew something like what's described in the above quote was almost guaranteed to happen?