Hard to believe 2017 is coming to an end already and 2018 is just around the corner.

 

Not many changes occurred this year. We had a few close calls of closing so we added subscriptions to help raise donations which gives advanced access to the MPi.

 

We made our admins aware of our PB master server project that has been running for over 3 years. It's for discontinued games where we host the cheat detection signatures using the last known list before game support was discontinued by Even Balance.

 

To our donors, streaming admins and other supporters, we wish to thank you for all your support to keep PBBans online over the past year and beyond.

 

We know it has become more difficult for game communities to financially support PBBans when the games that help build many communities have moved away from Punk Buster, traditional hosted servers and full RCON control. It also doesn't help that people playing games with Punk Buster is on the decline too.

 

Not sure what 2018 has in store for us but time will tell.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all the staff here at PBBans. All the best to everyone in 2018.

 
It's that time of year again. 2016 is just about to pass and 2017 is just around the corner.
 
To our donors, streaming admins and other supporters, we wish to thank you and all others that help keep PBBans alive.
 
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all the staff here at PBBans. May your holiday season be filled with joy and happiness. All the best to everyone in 2017.

For the past 13 years PBBans has been completely independent and we have been free to choose our hosting providers because of the donations from our generous community. However, over the past 6 months the monthly donations have not been enough to cover our hosting costs even with the reduction of the amount required. The additional funds have been coming from the months we exceeded our monthly goal which is now running out.

Over the years we explored many options to help fund PBBans but our primary goal is to keep our services online and ad free without requiring any fees to use if possible. Using advertisements on the website was an option and we did try Goggle ads for guest users but they didn’t work out in the end.

We have had numerous offers from game server providers to host us on hardware they own or rent and we greatly appreciated the offers. We prefer the ability to choose our own hosting solutions and didn’t want to run into the scenario of the GSP no longer wishing to sponsor us and we would be forced to move.

Finally, the number of streaming servers has dropped considerably over the last 8 years and the number of active community members with it. With more new games not using Punk Buster it has reduced the community overall.

If you use our services, please consider donating if you haven’t already done so. To those that have and continue to donate we thank you. Your contributions help keep our community alive.

 

https://www.pbbans.com/donations.html

We wish to take this time to thank everyone that help keep PBBans online for the past 13 years. From our donors, streaming admins and other supporters, we would not be here without you.

We welcomed a few new staff members this year that included -Slayer- and DHGreeny. Sabret received a promotion to Operations Staff as well.

Please be reminded that we count on the donations that our users give to keep our services online and free. Over the past few months we have not been meeting our donation goals so please donate if you are able to do so.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all the staff here at PBBans. May your holiday season be filled with joy and happiness. We look forward to seeing everyone in 2016 where we mark our tenth anniversary of launching the PBBansHub, the first live banning system using PBUCON.

 

The studio is proud to announce the integration of a highly respected anti-cheat into H-Hour to supplement the protection provided by VAC. PunkBuster™ is the original Anti-Cheat system for online multiplayer games. In the past only AAA games were able to use these tools in the daily battle against cheats but we reached out and arranged to bring you the best tool we could find.

 

Evenbalance's goal in creating this software is to keep the playing field as even as possible so that PunkBuster-enabled games are played the way they were meant to be played. For more information on Punkbuster, you can visit their site here:
http://www.evenbalance.com/

 

https://www.sofstudios.com/index.php?/topic/9907-server-downtime-patch-notes-release-2319/

 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/293220/

We have lifted the BF3 bans for Violation #51048 from midnight on June 1st to present time from the MBI and the UMBI.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bf3.php
 

Wednesday 06.10.2015 [11:00AM]

We have confirmed that long standing Violation #51048 may be triggered by newly released non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our system and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised this violation number after May 31, 2015.

 

37 Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed from the MBi.
9 Unofficial bans have been removed also.

We have lifted all BF3 and BF4 bans for violation #79623 after Even Balance confirmed that the violation could have been raised by non-cheat software.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bf3.php
 

Tuesday 04.14.2015 [2:00PM]

We have confirmed that Violation #79623 may be triggered by non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our master servers.

 
250 Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed from the MBi.
81 Unofficial Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed also.

 

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bf4.php

 

 

Tuesday 04.14.2015 [2:00PM]

We have confirmed that Violation #79623 may be triggered by non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our master servers.

 

243 Battlefield 4 Bans have been removed from the MBi.
166 Unofficial Battlefield 4 Bans have been removed also.

We have lifted all 81570 and 81576 bans in BF3.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bf3.php

 

Tuesday 12.09.2014 [3:15PM]

We have confirmed that Violations #81570 and #81576 in BF3 may be triggered by non-cheat software. These Violation codes have been removed from our system and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised these violation numbers.

 

81570 bans:

837 Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed from the MBi.
289 Unofficial Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed also.

 

81576 bans:

411 Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed from the MBi.
143 Unofficial Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed also.

 

1,680 Total Bans Removed

06/26/2014 21:31:10

We have confirmed that Violations #130846 may be triggered by non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our system and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised this violation number.

 

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bf4.php

 

7 BF4  bans have been removed from the PBBans MBi.

1 BF4 ban has been removed from the UMBI.

We have lifted all 81568 bans in BF4 for the time being.

 

Even Balance has not yet confirmed if it is a false positive but we decided to lift the bans as it can take EB a few days to confirm if a violation number can be triggered by non-cheat software.

 

We can easily restore the bans should EB confirm they are valid so we have lifted them to prevent possible innocent players from being able to play. This also gives EB more time to investigate.

 

1,543 Battlefield 4 Bans have been removed from the MBi.
546 Unofficial Battlefield 4 Bans have been removed also.