7 Day Free BF4 PC Hacker Concerns...

[SunshineTheGoat]

Pulled this from battlefield blog:

"Origin has just unveiled that the next title as part of their “Game Time” program is Battlefield 4! Starting today, gamers can download Battlefield 4 for free on PC (until August 14th at 10 AM PT). There’s never been a better time for new recruits to jump in and join us on the Battlefield.

Here’s how Game Time works. Players can start downloading Battlefield 4 to their Origin Game Library starting today. From there, it’s up to them to decide when they want to start their “Game Time” clock – today, next week, next month, next year, whenever. From the minute you launch the game, your “Game Time” clock turns on, giving you full access to the game for one week — 168 hours."

- http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/news/view/bf4-game-time-for-pc/

Many people seem to think this promo ends in a week from now, but that's not entirely the case, you can enable the 7 day free period at any point in the future... so if someone creates a massive amount of origin accounts within this week in order to be eligible for this promo, but activates the 7 day free time at any point in the future, as with when BF3 temporarily became free to play, I think this one is also going to backfire with a ton of hackers using it for a free run.

Thoughts?

 

[RainMotorsports]

My thoughts are there was 16 hackers on any 64 player server at a given time and now there will be 20... oh well The numbers might be an exaggeration however the majority of hackers go unnoticed. There is likely 4 to 8 in a server at a given time and only one of them is being called bullshit on while the other 3 players being called bullshit on are legit.

 

[SunshineTheGoat]

My thoughts are there was 16 hackers on any 64 player server at a given time and now there will be 20... oh well The numbers might be an exaggeration however the majority of hackers go unnoticed. There is likely 4 to 8 in a server at a given time and only one of them is being called bullshit on while the other 3 players being called bullshit on are legit.

I just think that regular retail copies getting banned forces them to purchase another copy of the game plus expansions... where as with something like this, they can create X amount of accounts during this promo and abuse it even a year from now as long as they made an eligible account.

And whoah! 16?! Exaggeration or not, I game TBG 24/7 conquest bf4 all map server pretty much all the time and I rarely see a suspicious person. Maybe someone glitching, but hacking... rarely.

 

[RainMotorsports]

I just think that regular retail copies getting banned forces them to purchase another copy of the game plus expansions... where as with something like this, they can create X amount of accounts during this promo and abuse it even a year from now as long as they made an account during the promo period of this week.

Or they can just use a hack that came out during the beta and still hasn't been banned for. Kinda makes you wonder how hard they are working to detect it. Evenbalance could ban 500 people a month and it wouldn't make a dent and guess how many bans there are period for BF4? 4,267... they haven't even scratched the surface.

So some idiot who used a free hack and got busted is back in business for a little while. Most of the people hacking are paying monthly subscriptions. A copy of the game isn't that expensive in comparison. Double XP events probably bring more hackers out of the woodwork. This equals a couple percent of people back in action and maybe a little less downtime for those who would buy another copy anyways.

Our efforts are futile because theirs are not made.

 

[balls2dawall]

I just looked; there are 4,272 bans for BF4. Most of those are people that didn't pay for the newest DLC; these fucks are all in it together.

 

[Howling_Fury]

If EA didn't look at it from the point, that they sell more copies than they would sue these players I am sure. If a couple players got sued for hacking, than this would change the problem greatly.

Call of Duty: Black Ops had a feature called "Theatre", where you could go back and watch the previous matches you played that day. You could watch recorded footage from any player on that server from 1st,3rd, and free camera mode. You could also slow down and speed up the recorded game footage.

But Dice/ BF4 cant even mange to make the camera work right in game, let alone having this type of feature.

Fucking Retards are lucky they managed to get the game to work at all....

 

[BlitZ003]

playing eariler this morning it was lots of low lvl no lvls and they seemed to be doing rather well i got pissed and took my dogs for a walk