Last week my origin EA play membership expired because I needed to update my payment method. Therefore, I updated my payment info and renewed my membership. Immediately after renewing and trying to enter a server for BF4 I am kicked out by Punkbuster. This is obvious that there is a correlation with my account expiring and then becoming reenabled because I have not had any PB issues in many years and no new hardware/software changes--only renewed EA play. I tried everything last week on the first day it happened to no avail (watched every PB video, read as many PB kick forums, did it all suggested fixes, reinstalled pb, windows firewall incoming settings good, checked services, repair game, etc). My conclusion at that time was the ban was due to some type of error with renewing my account. Then the next day, all the sudden everything worked perfectly fine. Entered any BF4 server with not one issue and played several hours that day and some the next. Then fast forward through the week, I did not play at all. Getting to Friday night (2 days ago), all the sudden the ban is back on again...nothing has changed. Now, I'm thinking...what the hell? Let me try this all again, but to no avail. Then let's see on Saturday, surely this is just a bug like the prior week, thinking it will all the sudden work again. Nope, Saturday didn't work and neither today. I tried contacting the "24/7 chat option on EA," but apparently they have there own definition of 24/7 as really it is 24/6 maybe if that??? No option to talk to support for Saturday night or at all on Sunday. Any help is much appreciated. The message I get reads as follows:
Game disconnected: you were kicked by PunkBuster. Stated reason: PunkBuster permanent ban issued on this Game Server for player ‘Blu3Sonic’...Global Punkbuster GUID BAN 657xxxxx.
I placed x's in place of actual characters at the end of the GUID Ban ID because I don' t think it's a good idea to post that ID, but I wanted to show the first digits as they don't relate to any posted "ban codes."
That is REALLY STRANGE...
I bet all yours are real cheaters that get caugh...
But, only to be sure, REINSTALL WINDOWS 10 and BE SURE is the "1909" version and not "2004".
I say this, because i recently have a problem whit PunkBuster kicking me and the game crashing entering a server, and the problem was Windows 10 2004 (i reinstalled the same version multiple times to be sure, and yes in 2004 the game dont works properly)
Then i reinstall again a fresh 1909 Windows 10, and the game works perfect again... so atleast is confirmed that the game have incompatibility problems whit Windows 10 2004 (and is the service from PunkBuster the one having that incompatibility)
Other than that sorry... , but you all are cheaters, and if that is true i am happy you all get the ban, i hate those MotherF..... ruining the fun.
I believe the OP statement because a similar thing has happened to me as well. Not all Bans are correct. There are false positives as well. I Never cheated and played all battlefield games since bf2 and sudently EB decided to global ban my Guid. I oppened a trouble ticket to EB since 04/30/2020 and had no reply whatsoever. I even contacted EA about it without any help either. The only thing i did those days was to move the bf4 installation from my HDD to a secondary SSD for faster loading times. What i notited in my email from EA after some days is that i requested a security code which i didnt so i thought my account got hacked. Theres that. If i got hacked and the person who hacked my account actualy cheated i believe theres a way to find that by EA and fix it. So i didnt tried anything else since then but only to change my password and added more security in the account. I am still baned !!! For that i didnt purchase battlefied V or BF1.
