No problem Tom: you will get no where with regards to violation #83018. Evenbalance has stated that they do not find ANY violation to be triggered in error...at least initially. They will not admit their program is faulty unless forced to act by EA, via investigation, or by judge order from a court of competent jurisdiction. If you contact EA: they will send you to Evenbalance with a bot type generated response, no matter what information you may give to them...if you state "punkbuster" in any correspondence with EA; they will reply with the aforementioned. When communicating with Evenbalance/file an appeal: they will state what I mentioned in the prior post. You will reply that you did not have anything on your computer and/or that your game account was not "leaked or stolen", etc. They will then go on to reply with what could be best described as "copy and paste" notes no matter what amount of information you provide them. Those replies from Evenbalance will go along the lines of "Those programs would not cause the disturbance we found associated with your guid.", and/or 'We will investigate any credible information regarding any possible false detection.", and/or "If you think you have found a specific program that caused a false detection please let us know.". That last one is hilarious...they will give you no idea as to the nature of disturbance, yet you are magically suppose to know a specific program that triggered their software. Now with that said: if you do indeed cheat, which I highly doubt; you would tell them so...and that would be the end of it. However and as mentioned, I doubt you cheat as I also doubt anyone effected by violation #83018 used any cheating program and/or had their accounts "leaked or stolen". If those players effected did indeed have their accounts stolen via a data breach within EA servers/programs, etc.... EA has much bigger problems to worry about, even more so if they do not do something about it. IN addition: I would imagine that players whom choose to use downloaded skills and therein know they cheat...would not find their way here, to state anything to the contrary. They would know they have been caught and most likely buy a new account to continue in their ways. What I do know is that the entirety of that last 50+ player count/wave of bans coded as violation #83018 ran concurrent to the timeline that is the basis of this "pinned" forum post. IE: battlelog and origin had some issues. Further evidence that I am correct: all of those violation codes have stopped once EA issued this pinned forum post and/or as players have seen the fix mentioned herein posted elsewhere and/or EA issued an automatic update.
Again, and not to sound like a broken record: EA must investigate this as it is the only recourse available for players that have purchased the ability to play online from them. This was the only path for rectification of erroneous ban issuance in the past (ie. June of 2014 bans codified as violations #81568 & #81570), as Evenbalance will not do anything unless EA or a judge forces them to act.
With that all said: @EA_Atic or other EA representative will need to look into this for all those effected, as I have mentioned in my prior post. I am certain that these violations are due to a process of dual instances of the game being initiated thereby causing punkbuster to find for a disturbance (ie. evasion) of their software due to those two instances running concurrently. As I mentioned before: if it is correct that those many players have had their accounts stolen due to a data breach within EA software........EA has bigger issues to deal with in their near future.
@asasn8r When the battlelog launch issues where ongoing for you: how did you join the game? Did you have battlelog open in chrome/ie/firefox, click on "join server or join friend" to then have origin produce a pop up stating that you needed to activate your game or play under a different account? Did you then close that popup within origin and manually start the game from your battlefield game launch icon (found in origin game library)? I will be interested to see the correlations that other players have mentioned regarding the process that they were using to join servers during the period of time that battlelog was fouled (and subsequently the same period that punkbuster was banning for #83018).
As it stands now, there can only be two possible and identifiable activities that may have caused this wave or what I believe to be false positive bans: players starting the game via battlelog and then players starting the game "manually" via origin (dual instances of game initiation) or that those accounts have indeed been stolen via a data breach of EA owned software.
