Punkbuster Service Goes Down, Hundreds of Online Game Servers Affected

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @09:35AM from the let's-blame-drm-it's-more-fun dept.

MojoKid writes "PunkBuster, the anti-cheating service implemented in hundreds of online games, is down. As of the time of writing, the official PunkBuster website is up and down, after having been completely down for the past couple of hours. On Twitter, there are numerous reports of gamers who've been unable to play online in the most popular PunkBuster-backed title of the moment, Battlefield 3. EA has gone as far as to post an interim fix. Applying the fix is a simple matter of extracting an archive and then overwriting a couple of files inside of your Battlefield 3 install folder. While EA has little power over PunkBuster's ability to get things 100% functional again, this issue does highlight the fact that third-party solutions are not always the way to go."

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Have EA posted an interim fix? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-13 09:39 · Score: 5, Informative

The "interim fix" link points to an unofficial site, and the download link on that site points to a file hosted on dropbox...
1. Re:Have EA posted an interim fix? by Desler · 2013-02-13 10:05 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  His point was that EA didn't post the fix. The link is to a third party website.
Publishers still force Punkbuster on customers?! by SnowDeath · 2013-02-13 09:40 · Score: 1, Informative

I haven't had that horrible piece of software on my PC in years... Valve's VAC is far superior with less resource usage. Yes, I am a Valve fanboy and yes I am a talented TSQL developer in a fortune 300 company looking for a job with them ;)