Hard to believe another year is coming to an end as 2025 draws to a close. We wish to extend our best wishes to our community members this holiday season.

To our donors, streaming admins and other supporters, we wish to express our thanks for all your support this year. As always, a big thank you to those who go above and beyond to help keep PBBans online. This year that included: CU - DizzyKipper, }TG{TommyGun and sunnyghost. We hope others will consider donating in the coming year if they are able to do so.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at PBBans.

As 2024 comes to an end, we wish to extend our best wishes to our community members this holiday season.

This year we switched hosting providers as our old host deemed our server hardware end of life and would shut them down in Sept 2024. We found a new host for 25% less and the hardware is considerably faster than our previous host.

Sadly this year our co-founder RodeoBob lost his battle with cancer. While he stepped away from PBBans years ago to focus on his personal life and family, he always checked in from time to time.

To our donors, streaming admins and other supporters, we wish to thank you for all your support throughout this past year. A big thank you to RedKilla, CU - DizzyKipper and }TG{TommyGun for going above and beyond to help keep our community online this year. We hope others will consider donating in 2025 if they are in a position to do so.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at PBBans.

Today, RodeoBob one of the co-founders of PBBans lost his battle with cancer after 4 years. Robert served his country in the United States Air Force for 23 years as an information manager and continued serving as a Government Financial Analyst for 13 years.

In his spare time he enjoyed playing video games and from that found a desire to do something about cheaters in video games that use Punk Buster. He co-foundered PBBans as part of that goal.

Bob hasn't been involved as much in the last 5 years but I'm sure many of our long time members know of him and likely delt with him directly at some point.

As 2023 comes to an end, we wish to extend our best wishes to our community members this holiday season.

This year marked our 20th anniversary of fighting cheaters. Hard to believe it's been 20 years and so much as changed from anti-cheat software to the games themselves.

To our donors, streaming admins and other supporters, we wish to thank you for all your support to keep PBBans alive throughout this past year. A big thank you to RedKilla, CU – DizzyKipper and }TG{TommyGun for going above and beyond to help keep our community online this year. We hope others will consider donating in 2024 if they are in a position to do so.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at PBBans.

We are currently forwarding the open appeals to Evenbalance for them to check. There has been an accumulation of appeals since Evenbalance ceased its trouble-ticket support for unknown reasons a considerable time ago.

If you have a ban appeal

We can only forward the appeal once, and if Evenbalance reports a valid ban, there is nothing further we can do to help. Your appeal will be denied, and it's up to you where you go from there. At this time, there is no front end support from Evenbalance due to the aforementioned ceasing of Evenbalance answering trouble-tickets.

Please note: Global bans are issued and maintained by Evenbalance themselves. We have no control over global bans. Some of you may also have global bans attached to the violation.

If you have a Punkbuster ban and are considering appealing

We will still need you to open an Evenbalance trouble-ticket even though it won't get answered. This is because the ban appeal system still requires you to submit one. All you have to do is paste the ban information in the ticket so we can corroborate the appeal with the violation and GUID.

Completion of existing ban appeals

This is likely to be finished after several weeks. A reply will be posted upon completion.

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Mon Dec 16 2019 0:30

We have confirmed that Violation #74006 may be triggered by non-cheat software. This violation code has been removed from our master servers. We encourage server admins to give players the benefit of the doubt and not ban players for this violation.

http://www.evenbalance.com/games.php?game=bf3

26 Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed from the MBi.
7 Unofficial bans have been removed also.

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.