No i don’t remember a message like that in my previous ticket. I checked my GUID on PBans. Its only global ban on Bf4. I joined game yesterday(a day before my ban. it was in may.months ago.) with my Windows 8.1 CpuCores program. It was cracked i think that may be causing the violation. After that day i could not join to servers.
By the way. Can i get another GUID by another account with “persona transfer”? Im willing to reset my stats.
Windows 8.1 is also affected. The people who have been banned randomly, used all Windows 7, 8 or 8.1. I have not seen a case yet with Windows 10 who got this random ban. But still, if you think it was maybe your cracked CpuCores (btw dont use such a trash software, you dont need it) it won’t change anything. They will not lift your ban in any case.
And as i remember, the GUID is tied to your Origin Account + your BF4 key. So you can’t transfer it. In order to play again you would have to create a new Origin Account and buy a new Battlefield 4 key. But keep in mind, that you then financially support EA again and allowing them such unjustified bans. Also, you are at very high risk at getting banned again with your new BF4 key. You need to install Windows 10, then you will be safe. It could be, that you play again with Windows 8.1 and then get banned after some weeks randomly and you end up with 2 banned BF4 keys .
A few weeks ago I recieved a global GUID ban from punkbuster. The ban does not say what it is for or anything other information. I do not have any cheats on my PC and my KDR is pretty meh. I to this day have no idea why I was banned.
I read online that I had to make a ban appeal to EvenBalance - the owners of punkbuster. I sent them a support ticket for a false ban and waited for a response. A month later, nothing. I had not even recieved a mere confirmation email that my ticket had been recieved. Fair enough, maybe I typed the wrong email. I sent another one and it’s been about two weeks now and still nothing, not a single message.
I have read that contacting EA is useless as they basically just say that punkbuster is ran by a 3rd party company and they cant do anything.
What am I supposed to do? The only things I’ve read online are basically send them a support ticket (which of course has not worked) or just people basically not believing that others have been falsely banned. I genuinely do not know what to do. I payed money for this game and to be essentially told after a few months that I’ve been globally banned permanently is just ludicrous.
I can still play on servers without punkbuster but so far I’ve found only one populated server meaning that I am forced to play whatever map/gamemode it is running and to make matters worse having punkbuster disabled makes actual cheaters appear on these servers as I witnessed a few days ago.
Please can somebody help me, I don’t believe it’s fair to be permanently banned for no reason and not be able to do anything about it.
Same thing happened to me. I eventually found out that my account had in fact been hacked / stolen by some punk possibly from Italy by the name of “VIOLATION REMOVED”. I never cheat, but after finding out that my account was hacked / stolen I guess it can be considered a good ban even though it wasn’t me who did the cheating. I too have sent multiple tickets to EB with no response at all. I ended up deleting my account, which WGG Uguale85 was still playing on at my 140 level. I then started over after buying the game for a second time on Origin and creating a new player name. Sucked that no one at EA seems to give a damn even after the hacker is identified but what can you do?
So I was warned for naming the player that I KNOW stole my old account and was using it until I deleted my account info. I don’t “think” he stole my account. I “know” he did. But I guess we want to protect the names of the hackers and account stealers so they don’t get their feelings hurt.
Hi All,
As we can see EA doesn’t care us, we paid but we have nothing btw they (both EA and EB) called us “cheater”.
From now on i won’t care EA and i wonder is there any way to play as a closed community (people in this forum) whether original or cracked version?
This topic getting worse. First they called us cheater and now you talking about that me talking about piracy. @StarscreamUK i’ve already paid money and spend lots of time to get level for this game, so please do not tell me “Don’t discuss piracy here”(better use “Please” BTW).
English is not my native language maybe because of that i haven’t explained myself clearly. Lots of people talking about cracked game can be played online on the web so this is what i’ve asked. I’m not telling “Lets find some cracked games and play”.
I hope this time you can understand main subject.
No need to defend EA. I want what i paid.
I was just trying to be polite but no problem you can use or not “please”.
You’ve already got the point but you have no courge to say that all i understood.
Don’t bother yourself to answer because i don’t care anymore…
Just as I expected, nearly a month after I got unbanned again by flawless Punkbuster along with other “cheaters”… I got banned again I’ve played dozens of rounds on my unbanned accounts since then, some of these rounds were recorded, some uploaded on my YT channel:
Today one of my unbanned friends (he’s also on these vids) wrote that he’s getting PB kicks again with “PB out of date” message. Same happened to me: PB kicks from every server. I haven’t checked my all banned/unbanned accounts but I bet all my money all these accounts are banned again.
@PBSTAFFNick, can you explain what’s going on with your flawless software? First, you responded that all these bans are 100% legit, everyone who submitted a troubleticket to Evenbalance got same BS reply. After some time my bans were lifted once, after couple days I got banned again. At 17th November I got unbanned again along with many banned players. We were able to play again till this day. Do you even control the action of Punkbuster? Are you aware players are being banned and unbanned couple times in a row? Feel free to check logs again, feel free to check my YT channel. Recent MOHW gameplays are recorded during 17th November and 16th December period. I haven’t cheated, haven’t installed anything, haven’t changed anything in the game or pb folder. Do you realize it’s utter BS?
Probably but from what I’ve heard all players that had been banned in 2 or 3 mass ban waves that struck MoHW community were able to play. These “unbans” took place at least twice. I haven’t heard about same things to happen to banned BF4 players. The fact this happened to us, MoHW players at least twice also prove that these bans are total BS.
I am banned by PB and I DON’T hack. My video card was malfunctioning. I kept getting a “video card hung” message. After a few successful attempts to play the game successfully, BF3, it started getting “hung” and then it wouldn’t play the game at all. Then, BAM! You were kicked and banned by PG for GAME HACK #83019. So the only thing I can think of was my vidoe card gave a bad report to the PB software. I’ve pleaded with PB 3 times since Nov 9, 2019 and have since built a new gaming rig. But, I still can’t play because of this tyrannical Global Ban that I got from a company that I didn’t even buy my game from. Really sounds like I am living in a Banana Republic. Wait…uh…I am in California so I guess that qualifies even though Punk Buster is in Texas. What a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ show.
Everyone, it’s not just Win 7 or 8… it’s not your OS that triggered a violation. I am on Win 10 and got banned. with a 7 series violation. It’s been almost a year for me… it does appear the false violations are moving sequentially up. Now it’s 8 series violation…
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I’ve played dozens of rounds on my unbanned accounts since then, some of these rounds were recorded, some uploaded on my YT channel: