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Well, I just want to state before I go into details that this is COMPLETELY bias and this is based off my own opinion. And I like to point this out to all server admins and players that play on servers that stream PunksBusted. Please read the whole thing and post and if its to much to read, don't even bother starting.
I also like to note that I do not and never have condone the use of any type of game cheats in the online gaming community.
Well this little story should be used as a warning and nothing else. Okay now, this dates back to October 29th of 2009. I started researching on a better system of map/mod retrieval for our game servers. Someone once mentioned to me that it was to bad we could not do a .exe file and have it as simple as installing a program. That got me thinking and i went and researched it for a few hours and I found a few open source programs that just did that. Unsure which was the best, I downloaded one that had good possibilities and a friend sent me to another. Well, I downloaded both and installed them and the one a friend sent me to was just way to confusing. So i went to the other one and I was able to figure it out within a few hours.
The next day I packed up and made my first file. I tested it on my comp and saw that it installed everything to the right folders. Since my test went good I uploaded it to our site and had a few clan mates DL them and also try it. Everything worked on there end. We ended up going onto our server and play for a little bit. Maybe an hour into our game, the 2 of us that were still there both were banned for 2 min. In the PB message for why we were banned, was because of an Uninstall file that was created by the installer. Well, after we both removed the Uninstall file, we went back to playing as if nothing happened.
That night after playing I looked more into the .exe program to find that it did not have a feature to remove the uninstall file from being made, so that forced me to look at a few other programs and was able to find one that gave me the option to create one or not. So I recreate the .exe and actually made it better since the new program was overall better. After creating it and uploading, I made a forum post saying that anyone that happen to DL the installer to remove the uninstall.exe and for anyoen that didn't DL it, the new one was clean and okay to use.
Mind you this is still the end of October, well over 5 months ago.
Well, 5 days ago I got our new BFBC2 server streaming PBBans and PunksBusted. After 24 hours of our server being streamed, PunksBusted closed our account. I sent in the request to reactivate and they said they wont for I am banned. This was news to me. I asked why and they pointed to the day that I got banned for 2 min. I thought they were joking so I started to laugh and told them that its funny they are saying I am banned for I was just playing on several of there server streaming PunksBusted. Mind you that PBBans that is also streaming never banned me for this. I proceeded to say that, that day, I got banned for 2 min and explained what happened. They then proceeded to tell me that what I said is a lie and makes no sense. Then proceeded to ask me of proof, and the proof they wanted is that uninstall file that was created. News to me that now hacks come with uninstall files, allot has changed in the past 5 years from RTCW days.
Well, I replied back to them that they are asking for a file that caused issues for me 5+ months ago and expect me to hold on to it, I also proceeded to say that if I was "banned" would that mean I could not play on those server that I been playing on, that supposedly I cant for I been banned the past 5 months while playing on streamed servers of there's.
Well, all in all after I replied with the forum post that showed the date of the message and the message, also offered them to with remote connect or I will give them FTP access and they can check the date and time of the .exe file that was created and added which would also collaborate my story, they seem to refuse to get back to me.
So I am taking that either they can't take the proof of the story being true and the guy calling me a lair which the evidence in ANY court of law, if this was a judge and jury would be more then sufficient, but I also have members from 2 other clans that can back up this story.
I proceeded to talk to a friend from another clan that is a member here that also knew about the auto .exe and the problem I had with it the day I found out about the issue, trying to figure out why they can't believe me, especially since I am not asking to be unbanned from the server I still can play on even running there system, I am asking them to unban me so I can stream them. I can understand that they get 1000+ stories a week from people, but I can almost guess that 99.9999999999% of them are trying to get unbanned so they can play and I am asking to unban me so I can stream and help keep hackers off my servers. I just find it odd that though they say I am and have been banned, then why did I get the message for a 2 min ban and I could still play on server streaming them.
- My question to all of you is, Do you think there is enough evidence that I am willing to provide is enough, along with the reason?
- I also like to ask if any of you would actually hold onto the file for 5+ months if it had no effect on playing on streaming servers.
- I also want to know, what your thoughts on there system saying that I am banned yet the availability for me to play on servers protected by them still is available? I started to think, now, do I really want to run a system like this. I just wounder how many innocent victims have had the misfortune of actually being banned, and also had them be rude to and really take no interest in finding out the truth, but rather make up there own false "truth" and stand by it.
Also I like to note that they said that the uninstall file is close to a uninstall of a known hack, so that got me wondering, I went and searched out EVERY uninstall file on my PC, and the darn-est thing, most of them came back with in a few KB of each other, some further then others, but all were roughly the same size.
My warning to server admins, if you create something that might benefit your clan and friends and you get banned for it, save the files for you never know when it will be needed.
Also, if any of you are from PunksBusted, I know I was told to keep quiet, but I feel the public should here how close minded you guys are.
If any of you have a story or an experience of being falsely accused by them or a similar group, I like to hear it, tell your story.
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