SCDS_reyalP wrote:Getting a new ET GUID is always trivial.
true, and that's what sucks about a free game. i mean, sure if i wanted to cheat in a paid game i could just buy 2 copies and use one for comps and the other for cheating, registering my clean guid at TWL or whatever, but in ET i can have umpteen million "keys" and just swap them out at will. that's why HW bans are really the best option.
AKAIK, americas army has good results with PB HW banning. that's also a free game, but i think that cheating in AA occurs in spurts, but is comparably low, and that people are constantly trying to spoof their hard drive serial numbers and shit to get back in the game. also, AA kills your player account, and that means earning your Honor all over again, which is a mild deterrent.
basically, getting busted in AA means a much bigger hassle than it does in ET, which basically has zero penalties - unless what the EB guy told me was correct, and they are just biding their time for a huge sweeping mega-ban
one thing i've asked PB about a few times but never gotten a straight answer to is this:
if you are HW banned in one PB enabled game, is it in effect for ALL PB enabled games, and if not, why not (it should be)? i'd be in favor of knocking off huge swathes of cheaters' computers from being able to access PB servers. period.
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