Greetings seedlings!As we continue to work to create a safe and fair experience for all players, we will be rolling out an update for PvZ Battle for Neighborville on April 18, 2024 at 10AM PT / 5PM UTC to transition PvZ Battle for Neighborville for PC over to EA Anticheat. We expect up to four (4) hours of downtime for this update to rollout to all players, and during this maintenance window, online access will be unavailable. Once the update has finished, ensure your game is updated and hop back in to take care of those zombies. Thanks for your patience and for continuing the fight for Neighborville.

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.

Are the stat exploits used by hackers to manipulate other players' levels and prevent them from accessing the games fixed in the upcoming update? It seems like more players are being affected by hacks and unable to access the game. Thanks

Has the bug that caused the player's level to be changed and unable to play the game fixed?

@imaPetalhead Pretty sad that any complaints about this will either fall on deaf ears or get you banned from the EA server (though, breathing the wrong way also gets you banned from the EA server).

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

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

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JosephPopper1
10 months ago
@THDNA @Obey_shuishui Unfortunately no that exploit still works, the anticheat update didn't fix anything in GW2 so I don't really have faith it will be any different for BFN.
ID_FVKvbJauotMQ
10 months ago
@axofromfortnite It won't.
axofromfortnite
10 months ago
Thank you, hopefully this will stop the rampant cheating in the beloved neighborville.
JosephPopper1
10 months ago
@EA_Shepard I really wish the issues with EA Anti-Cheat in PvZ GW2 could be addressed before adding it to more games.
EA Anti-Cheat in GW2 brought nothing but harm so far. Slower loading time, worse performance and it doesn't actually stop any of the cheating. It literally got bypassed within like 30 minutes of the update releasing.
ID_CR_BOOTFLOW
10 months ago
Will there be a unban wave like in GW2? Many players, have their account with an invalid grandmaster rank (the maximum is 115, while the exploit sets it to -1,500,000+), which prevents them from accessing the game.
ID_FVKvbJauotMQ
10 months ago
If this update is like the GW2 update, the stats exploit will still be possible along with any form of existing cheat.
ID_FVKvbJauotMQ
10 months ago
Replacing a semi-functional anticheat with one that does nothing but degrade the experience for normal players is a pretty strange decision.
Obey_shuishui
10 months ago
Has the bug that caused the player's level to be changed and unable to play the game fixed?
THDNA
10 months ago
Are the stat exploits used by hackers to manipulate other players' levels and prevent them from accessing the games fixed in the upcoming update? It seems like more players are being affected by hacks and unable to access the game. Thanks

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