Which is exactly why I did not buy BF Hardline and why I will not be buying anymore EA games.
This punk buster issue has been going on even before Bad Company 2 and EA being the number 1 most hated and incompetent company on earth insits on trolling customers with this useless deadweight nasty filth of a 1980's punk buster software that does absolutely nothing for cheating.
These idiots insist on forcing this garbage upon users because they are lazy, incompetent, cheap and dirty money grabbing corporate sleazebags.
Look at it over 60 games in my steam library and never ever once do I get an issue. Yet with this Ea pushing their garbage Origin Client when we for years had steam and had finally got rid of the stinking curse GFWL. Now we are back in the same position.
My solution? for too long this issue has been going on, punk buster a company that has nothing to do with EA, breaks EA's game from working. Just imagine that? I made the decision to delete BF4.
In the end I saved myself 50GB of SSD space, this game is a COD copycat anyways so I figured might aswell just stick to black ops 2 and get the true COD experience. And just like I didn't buy hardline I won't be buying battle front the new COD starwars.
Enjoying my Borderlands 2 and Payday 2 I got on a steam sale, no issues not a single one and I am happy.