PBBANS has closed down!

ZeroCool · August 20, 2009, 08:11:45 AM

I take it you guys used pbbans anti-cheat service on some of your servers?

Well they have closed down :crying:

From an IRC...

"After several years of providing anti-cheat support & banlists for several popular Punkbuster supported games, PBBans has called it quits. This comes on the heels of a recent denial of service attack on their site. Details are sketchy at this time as no official announcement has been made however the topic for their IRC channel states " PBBans 2003-2009 Farewell All--It has been a great ride!" Also after being asked how much money would fix it a top admin simply said " it's not just money anymore it's lack of time and willingness"

The loss of PBBans Master Player Index coupled with the recent loss of Yawn will make player tracking in ET increasingly difficult. Whether your a fan of PunkBuster or not this is truly a sad day for anticheat as PBBans provided a top notch service & will be missed by those who made use of it." :cry: :cry: :cry:

Are there any other services like this us admins can use to protect our servers from cheating idiots? :?

:crying::crying::crying::crying:

Anyone know of any other anit-cheat services out there? :eyebrow:

DuVeL · August 20, 2009, 08:45:09 AM

Are you sure this is correct?
Not some sort of hoax?

/Checks date, not the 1st of April...

A bit weird in my eyes to suddenly close down.

/Hates cheaters...(but gets called a cheater alot aswell).

Zootoxin · August 20, 2009, 12:03:38 PM

Whats facebook?

Quote from: DuVeL;286776Are you sure this is correct?
Not some sort of hoax?

/Checks date, not the 1st of April...

A bit weird in my eyes to suddenly close down.

/Hates cheaters...(but gets called a cheater alot aswell).

DuVeL · August 20, 2009, 12:18:23 PM

Quote from: Zootoxin;286804Whats facebook?

I don't get this reply, might be me.

EDIT;
I've just checked the site; http://www.pbbans.com/ and it doesn't seem to work.

EDIT 2; punkbusted was also an anticheat.

Anticheat Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anti-cheat_software

Penfold · August 20, 2009, 12:22:28 PM

me neither.

delanvital · August 20, 2009, 01:18:49 PM

:roflmao::lmfao:and Zoot strikes again. Twice!

Dr Sadako · August 20, 2009, 01:26:27 PM

Quote from: Zootoxin;286804Whats facebook?

DuVeL · August 20, 2009, 01:28:12 PM

Quote from: Zootoxin;286804Whats facebook?

What is spam?

I just got explained why you typed this here.
Better not post these replies again in a serious thread.

It seems ZeroCool set this up to inform us as we all play CoD4 aswell.
Better put your remark in a thread where it might be funny.

Gaara · August 20, 2009, 02:40:09 PM

Quote from: Dr Sadako;286814

Actually that's a book face not a facebook

DruiD · August 21, 2009, 07:26:24 PM

Olaa

I googled pbbans being down and found this thread, did a wee bit more searching and found another which says that Pbbans is just changing to another more secure datacenter.

Information: http://twitter.com/PBBans

Thought i would let you know in case you didnt know yet.

Later.

Blunt · August 21, 2009, 07:36:51 PM

Thanks for taking the time and trouble Druid:D

Regards

delanvital · August 21, 2009, 09:31:42 PM

Quote from: DruiD;287043Olaa

I googled pbbans being down and found this thread, did a wee bit more searching and found another which says that Pbbans is just changing to another more secure datacenter.

Information: http://twitter.com/PBBans

Thought i would let you know in case you didnt know yet.

Later.

Very kind of you!