EA Beats Battlefield 3 Cheaters With The Banstick

EA used Twitter to announce the bannings of hundreds of accounts, complete with stat wipes, belonging to cheaters across all platforms. Players have been exploiting a glitch that allows them to rack up ridiculous scores using an Engineer, earning tens of thousands of points in a single round.

Second only to homophobic 12-year-old racists, cheaters are some of the most annoying players to encounter in online games. Players of Battlefield 3 most likely know this well, as cheaters have become a real problem in all versions of the game.

Well, no more. EA used Twitter to announce the bannings of hundreds of accounts, complete with stat wipes, belonging to cheaters across all platforms. Players have been exploiting a glitch that allows them to rack up ridiculous scores using an Engineer, earning tens of thousands of points in a single round.

EA's not done, either. The bans are still coming, quickly and righteously, while developer DICE works on a patch to fix this glitch (and others). See? This, boys and girls, is what happens when you can't play nice.

Staff article by Rhody Tobin (November 14, 2011) Rhody likes to press the keys on his keyboard. Sometimes the resulting letters form strings of words that kind of make sense when you think about them for a moment. Most times they're just random gibberish that should be ignored. Ball-peen wobble glurk.