BF3 Aimbots: What's the leagal status cheap programs?

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Is EA trying to reduce the number of BF 3 players so they would play their newer games? Is EA doing anything at all to prevent hackers from cheating? In BF 3, I discovered a lot players using aimbots. If this is the case, does EA need a lawsuit to clear their head? No one seems to be doing anything to discourage this practice. I've see dedicated websites to cheating and it's infuriating. The truth of the matter is now these players who use cheats see no wrong doing.
 
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I dont believe anywhere does EA state you will be playing in a cheat free environment. Sounds like you are just looking for a reason to gripe over a 4+ year old game.
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On MP servers, it's up to the Punkbuster service to detect and ban aimbotters. It's licensed software, so EA is under pretty much no liability on their end.

Ideally, you'll play to a server that streams pbbans, which is a global list of people who have ever been caught using any cheats, and thus permanently banned on any server running pbbans.
 
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For a long time Punk Buster's hasn't been doing a lot to prohibit cheats in BF 3. EA sells the game, collects a profit or finances to sustain the game and allows hacking to be rampant over their servers. This is the sense of it all. Maybe a petition should be drawn against them and then a lawsuit. Figure it this way. If you paid for a game to play according to EA's license and agreement rules, shouldn't you derive the satisfaction of at least the game contestants playing properly? That's like fraud. An ulterior use motive for the product. Selling an inferior product.
 
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Depends on if they're really using aimbots or not. I still play Halo:CE, but stick to the POQ and other clan-type servers, mainly because a) the server admins will maintain temp ban & perma-ban lists, and b)the server mod software they use lets them see "through the eyes" of the accused, so to speak -- & not just real-time, but also for the entire round. Makes it very easy to tell if someone had no shot on their victims.

That being said...there are also a lot of players that cry "bot!" every time they're killed. Doesn't mean there aren't botters out there, but I'd say the majority of players are not using bots...which means that if someone shoots you in the game, chances are good it's because a) they're that good of a shot, b) your cover wasn't as complete as you thought, c) they got lucky, or d) all of the above.
 
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Battlefield has never been a hack free environment, that's just the nature of online gaming.

People always try to find exploits of some sort - An example is the mountain goating glitch on Operation Locker in BF4. EA could set a lower map height limit, but they haven't, even 15 months after release. And so players continue to do it, even with the threat of admins banning them.

I don't condone hacking, and get pretty annoyed when i'm in a BF4 game and a hacker appears, but if you don't like the hackers, find a different server or just don't play.

After my amount of playing time, you begin to stop calling hacks, and either report hackers, or just find a different server.
 
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As a FYI: I played semi-pro BF2 for about 5 years. And based on what I've seen, the really good players are about as good as those who cheat. In higher-level competition, there's some times you just can't tell which is which.

So yes, it's easy to say that guy who just went 44-3 is hacking. That being said, he could just be that good. I've seen examples of both, and they're hard to tell apart.
 
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Seems to me you're the kind of guy that's willing to play with hackers. No, I didn't say you endorse them. If you like playing with hackers that's O.K. Actually, I never made a complaint about hackers till yesterday. It's not like the first time the chats crabbed about aimbots, too. But it's all that dominates the game. Fred's isn't cursing Death Dude out because he won't paddle him back to life anymore. He's too busy being dead.
Kill streaks of 40 in large maps or ratios of 50 or more kills oppose to 1 or 2 deaths changes the game. Most of the time it's just 4 or 5 guys but the consistency by squads on both sides, I think that's a little overboard.
The worst was actually laughable. Some guy named Ammo Can running around in an open space waving a machine gun, not even reloading. No one could touch the guy. Everyone was trying to get away.
Sure, the game is old but EA still sells it. According to the sellers contract to the customer, it's EA liability to support it.
 
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I dont appreciate hackers myself. But I also dont come to a tech forum to cry about them either and threaten legal action lol. If there are "hackers" on the server you are playing on, find another server. If there are too many "hackers" and they are all killing you, find another game.
 
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I had a website address on my original post. It was a website advertising and selling aimbot and cheats for MP games. Pretty amusing. I think the Admins here, took it off. I don't see it anywhere along the thread. If you're interested in seeing it, it's 'Battlefield 3 Cheats; Hacks Aimbots Instant Access'. I found it listed on Google. Normally I wouldn't care but this is a dedicated site. Look at it and tell me what you think.
 
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We all know that these sites are out there, and there's nothing we, or EA can do about them, because the website technically hasn't done anything wrong. Its the players hacking in the servers, not the website owners.

EA can't stop the hackers in a game like BF3 any more. They gave the game away for free, and a number of hackers probably made multiple free accounts during that period.

If you don't want hackers, join a server that is highly populated. Its likely there will be an active admin, since most of the servers these days are run by BF3 fans who don't want the game to die.
 
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