They have no right to limit what games you can and cannot play, even if they catch you cheating on one game. If you got suckered out of your money that way, wouldn't you feel bad? You can sue punkbuster you know. It gives no reasons, it gives no ban lifts, and you only get an automated 'THe ban is right, you lsoe' message after 1-5 days. Those forums properly illustrate that games who PAID MONEy to play a game CANNOT play because that crap just throws them off. Any flaws in PunkBuster must be reliably sourced, for example from a gaming magazine or somesuch. Talk pages are not a forums to air miscellaneous grievances, their purpose is to discuss article content. Forums are not considered reliable sources as forum members are anonymous and they have no accountability (blogs aren't allowed as sources either, so.). Secondly, the deleted text consisted of long discussions about the PunkBuster software, with no apparent attention of adding anything to the article or sourcing the claims with reliable sources. contribs) First, please do not use personal attacks when debating.People have a right to know this crap is harmful, so DO NOT REMOVE THIS FOR BLOODY HELL'S SAKES: -Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.70.54.211 ( talk

TONS of complaints about unjustly banned people, most of whom have PAID for the game one way or another. Just CHECK forums! Click community, forums, and go to the punkbuster sub-forum. also wikipedia is not censored from bad stuff, and as with porn, the info should stay there- ometzit 05:56, 14 February 2007 (UTC) Įxactly how dare you silly little manipulated peons remove the truth about punkbuster? Hmm? many games have sections when they discuss the problems on it, like in graphics, physics engine, accurancy of the information etc. Other reasons to remove *this specific reference* include its bias towards MSX and its programmers, as well as the fact that no anti-cheat system is 100% accurate, thus focusing on PB's difficult with stopping MSX is pointless, and criticism should be directed at all PB's other flaws (not that hard to find )).Ģ4.68.65.244 04:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC) I don`t agree, at the end it`s just information. At the risk of starting an edit war, I am removing reference to MSX. Why should an article on (anti)cheating be different? Granted, it's stupid easy to find hacks, but I don't believe Wikipedia should hand them out on a silver platter. Isn't this simply giving wannabe cheaters what they want? I notice, for example, an article on armed robbery doesn't link to a website that gives tips on being successful. I see this article links to the MSX website under the guise of providing 'evidence' that PB is flawed. But if you still have any of games, IDK about results, anti-virus should detect ths kind of software. contribs) 01:33, 30 December 2007 (UTC) įYI : I deleted, closed, and removed it finally with regedit, not hard to find how.Finally, there should be a section on the principles involved here: Does a software company have the right to use your computer as it sees fit to protect its product? -Preceding unsigned comment added by Iskabobbins ( talk Whatever happened to consent? Second, there should be more references to how the community reacts to Punkbuster, whether gamers actually like it or not. I'm disturbed by this behavior, which is similar to malware. Even if you use Task Manager to remove it, it pops up again. There is no option even to disable Punkbuster, or no option to remove it from the startup list. It is always resident, even after you uninstall the program that installed Punkbuster. I believe that there should be a section describing how Punkbuster operates. I agree, I think that how unpopular PB is should be discussed in the article. I've known players to be unable to join most servers due to Punkbuster's faults. Quite often the ONLY solution is uninstalling, reinstalling, and hoping. Punkbuster is highly unpopular in the gaming community - shouldn't this be addressed? Punkbuster has many faults, the in game autoupdate feature seems to work for very few players, the out of game auto update feature is worse, and the manual updates often fail, too.

Everything else can be found on the PB website.

If you don't trust the game, don't play it. You can just start the game with the correct rights, no need to login as admin. Shouldn't this shortcoming / problem be mentioned here? The older workaround was giving these rights to the player: This opens the door wide to all kinds of attacks on the players computer, as well as making it impossible to maintain a safe computer setup. What's with the bug/problem of the access rights? Since 2005-03, PB requires (for some games at least) to run the games as admin.

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