Just as we thought the hacking issue with Battlefield 3 couldn’t get any worse, it now appears it has just that: in order to prove their point against PunkBuster, the cheaters and hackers over at ArtificialAiming have banned over 150 Battlefield 3 players by using a PunkBuster exploit. A forum post claims:


“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.”

There are numerous threads over at Battlelog about this issue, where innocent players have been banned. The issue has to do with PBBans and GGC — third party services that run on the vast majority of Battlefield 3 game servers.

DICE have stated that they’re looking into the issue, but at this point, hackers have pretty much gotten control of the game. And just to make matters worse, innocent players can now be banned with what appears to be a simple command and the user’s BF3 GUID.

You published this article? Way to go dude. Where did it get posted/published?

Its not CapZac's article, its appeared on many forums, including EA. The news broke last week.

Sounds like they are not controlling the game but 3rdto party programs. One more reason we use real admits not 3rd party programs.

you'll never convince me that EA/Dice can't do anything about hacks and cheats. I think there's 2 reasons why they allow ( yes allow) cheaters. The first is to help point out where they wrote crappy game code that's vulnerable and the second is laziness. I may be wrong but Valve doesnt have half the problems that PB has always had.

3rd point is they wont spend our money to improve this situation!