State of Battlefield 3 in 2025
Had a few questions with regards to BF3 about a few servers that have recently popped up that have Punkbuster disabled. Always been my understanding that a server owner can disable Punkbuster but that server is no longer Ranked. We have three newer servers all that have Punkbuster disabled at the request of the owners that are taking population away from well established servers that have it enabled. As a result there has been a explosion of cheaters in the game and no resolution other then admins banning obvious cheaters along with some 3rd party tools like Battlefield Agency catching linked accounts.
There are a bunch of the loyal core community who have been playing almost 15 years who are not happy being subjected to this environment and if it continues the established servers will cease to exist leaving legit players with no place to play anymore. Can something be done about this like enforcing servers to no longer be ranked when Punkbuster is disabled? There will be the crowd which say Punkbuster is useless and how all these innocent players were banned but without it every single cheat created since 2011 can be used on the servers that have PB disabled causing contempt for Battlefield in general. Would love to see EA's new anti-cheat back ported to more older BF titles like how Battlefield 1 was updated last year.
If this continues then BF3 will just die out even faster because of selfish players who do not value other peoples time nor respect simple basic rules of gameplay.
Hello south0fheaven,
Battlefield 3 ended its development cycle a long time ago, and no new updates will be coming to the game.
As a fellow player who has been playing Battlefield 3 since 2012 and still enjoys it, I can tell you that the new servers will eventually fade, while the well established ones will remain active. Nothing much more can be said or done.
