[ANNOUNCEMENT] Plants vs. Zombies Battle for Neighborville Anticheat Update

repeat after me.

You. Don't. Need. Kernel. Level. Anti. Cheat. to. detect. Players. cheating. 

the 100 players left on this game all got banned last thursday & u think your plastic anticheat is gonna stop people from getting banned lmfao make a legit fix or shut down the servers theres no way u profit from this mess of a game

@iserz1002040 Yeah the article about the GW2 anticheat update was claiming that the cheats in GW2 are kernel based which as someone who is familiar with GW2 mods, I can tell you that's absolutely not true. Then again most of this article was literally just copy pasted from the Battlefield 2042 anticheat article (which was recently also edited to include Battlefield V) with names switched out.

EA anticheat and Battlefield 

EA Anti-Cheat and Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2

Well, I guess I can’t play this game anymore since I play this on steam deck, same went for Gw2. Please add support for Ea Anticheat on to steam deck 🙏

Simply shameful. A total shame that EA is going through with a program that doesn't work. I have more than 15 videos saved on my computer, recorded since the release of the "anti-cheat" that simply doesn't work on GW2.

1. Time stopped in online matches.

2. Instant death of all players.

3. Cheater with infinite life.

4. Cheater with character impossible to select. (plant bosses and zombie bosses)

5. Transformation of all players into Chomper.

Not to mention that at times my game crashes (yes, this bug appeared after the "anti-cheat" and never went away).

And the game's performance was poor, slower with a drop in fps and lag in online matches.

But that's it, the important thing is money!!!

I'm angry!!!

This is such a lazy way to "fix" the problem. Adding this Anti-Cheat to Garden Warfare 2 did absolutely nothing but harm the player base. Cheaters run rampantly online just as common before the Anti-Cheat was added, but now the game runs worse. Easy Anti-Cheat prevented cheating, something yours didn't, and now you are replacing it for a less functional one. Instead of adding the Anti-Cheat as a band-aid solution, maybe the team should, I dunno, patch the actual exploit. This is a multi-billion dollar corporation, you are financially able to care for old games.

The fact EA gloated so hard about caring for the game and wanting fair play online, despite none of the feedback regarding the Anti-Cheat was considered is pathetic and reveals how they view the game and community. Adding EA Anti-Cheat to GW2 was just a publicity attempt to get praise from the general public for solving a problem that didn't get solved. You fooled the community once, shame on us. You can't fool us twice though, we know what will happen.

Be better. Treat your fans with actual respect. I know the community managers don't call the shots regarding what happens to a game, but you represent EA's decisions.

Desperate, both my first and second accounts were hacked and the Master rank modified