Thanks for screwing me Punkbuster.

[mornelithe]

soulfly666 said:

Right yeah sorry, you don't get added to the Master Ban list unless you really were doing something bad.  The One-X alterations to scopes and such would merely get you bumped off the vanilla servers until you reverted the altered files back to their original state.

And PB is absolutely vital, to PC gaming.  As you say for every instance of a person being bumped for non-cheating reasons, there are many many more getting bumped for actually cheating.  Really wish they'd give back admin tools though, Punkbuster catches most hacks, but it's updated by reports, which means if you have a cheater on the server you're playing on that isn't part of PB yet, you have to suffer through it.  Used to love nuking those cocksuckers on my CoD 2 servers.

NICE.  Cheaters are the worst!  It is the single biggest reason I switched over to consoles as primary.  Used to love me some COD2, SOF2, CS1.6, Quake 1 and 3, Tribes.  Fun stuff back then.  I actually miss the fun back in the day playing Quake 1 when it was popular.

Well, we were all kind of forced...or at least, the industry attempted to force us to adopt consoles by stripping away previously standard functionality.  Server tools, Admin tools, map making tools etc..  were taken away, because they realized they could force us to pay exorbitant monthly fees to play online.  They realized they could nickel and dime us with hideous piles of DLC crap, so they removed map making and mod tools.  You used to be able to group together with friends, and rent a server for an indefinite amount of time that you policed yourself.  When Microsoft/Sony/Activision/EA etc.. realized they could charge each person individually, that's when they started stripping these tools out, and now every year we hear of large lists of games having their MP functionality turned off, because we allowed these companies to host all this shit for us.

I don't begrudge the folks who find consoles an easier experience to enjoy.  I really don't.  I do, however, begrudge everyone who bought into this whole generation of stripping out absolutely necessary functionality, while using PC piracy/Cheating as a scapegoat, especially so, after people just started pirating and cheating on console.