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south0fheaven
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5 months ago
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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 tha...
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    danisoff
    5 months ago

    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.

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danisoff
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5 months ago

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.

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south0fheaven
Seasoned Rookie
5 months ago

This is not a matter of updating BF3 in 2025 simply the rules that the RSP server host providers are supposed to uphold set by EA/DICE are not being followed allowing Punkbuster to be disabled and the server still being Ranked. Also is not helping that the game was on sale for $0.99 recently having servers with Punkbuster openly disabled in their description simply invites cheaters to come do whatever they want, if they do happen to get banned they don't care since they bought 20 accounts for $20.

Should also be known that the server hosts who are advertising that their servers have no anti-cheat are collecting donations towards the cost of server rental so of course there are those who are paying to get away with whatever they want on these servers. So no, they will not be going anywhere and will cause the established servers to shut down until all that is left is one big giant cheat fest. If BF3 has a year left until EA drops all support for the game be a real shame that it be shut down in such a state when they can force the server host to abide by rules set since 2011.

EA needs to show the Battlefield community some good faith if it expects the core audience to return upon BF6's release we are tired of the lack of action which has plagued our beloved games. 

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