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FiringSquad: Finally is there anything else you wish to say about PunkBuster and Even Balance?

Tony Ray: We are starting to see more and more inquiries regarding cheat sites that sell private commercial cheats. I just want to say that honest players should not believe what is posted on these sites. There are a couple of notorious sites that make a lot of noise and falsely claim on their website that their hacks are undetected or PB-proof or whatever. In these cases, we are catching virtually every commercial and public hack they release within hours and are banning the GUIDS/CDKEYS associated with the detections. Think about it, cheating and lying go hand in hand. If a punk hack author admitted openly that PunkBuster was catching his customers and banning their accounts, how many cheats would he sell? We have actually seen several cases where an honest player pays for a cheat so he can send it to us and then logs into the private forums only to find out about all the angry "customers" who either have no working cheats as promised or who are getting banned over and over due to our detections of the supposedly-undetected hacks for which they paid. These sites also love to post screenshots or movies of how they are cheating on PunkBuster enabled servers - but what you have to consider is that someone who is smart enough to write an advanced game hack is also smart enough to create a fake screenshot/movie demonstrating something that doesn't exist in the real world as it is being portrayed.