*A tail of caution* So apparently:

[skyter 299]

(this isn't a complaint or request to be unbanned, just a story and a warning to the good people of dayz)

My GUID was stolen and I was globally banned... despite not playing arma II for the last 3 days. :huh: So not only did I lose a 2+ month old survivor to a hacker earlier in the week, I've also become a victim of the crossfire between BE and the hackers, with both sides flipping me the proverbial bird.

" WARNING: Massive cd-key theft going on [ 29.08.2012 • 17:00 ] As already mentioned in the previous news post, there is currently a massive ongoing effort by certain entities to steal people's cd-keys to then sell them for a profit. Private hack forums are full of posts of these fraudsters trying to sell heaps of cd-keys for a cheap price. We are talking about hundreds of cd-keys here, so this is not a small issue at all. The game developers confirmed that this is a huge problem right now.

Their process of stealing cd-keys is quite simple: They advertise a supposedly undetected hack on sites like YouTube and the moment you download and run it (it will probably report that the hack failed to load) your cd-key is already stolen. In many cases your actual cd-key in registry is overwritten with a banned one, so you will automatically receive a global ban message on join (see below). This is done to prevent you from using your cd-key again, so the fraudsters can sell them claiming that they are valid and not in use. Note that this can be fixed (temporarily) by deleting the cd-key from the registry and reinstalling your game. While your original cd-key is not banned due to this, it might very well end up being soon when your cd-key is being used by a cheater that purchased it. This causes many players to think they were innocently banned when in fact their cd-key was stolen and used for cheating. At the very least you will often receive a "CD key in use" message when trying to connect to servers.

And then there's this part which makes me suspicious (I mean... over selling it?):

If you think this is false propaganda to cover up supposed false global bans I advise you to do some research on this yourself. You can easily verify this by searching for "free ***" on YouTube. You will see lots of results and almost all of them are scams. Most of them are actually quite popular and have thousands of views. When downloading them and opening the .exe file in e.g. Notepad (warning: do not actually run the .exe!), you can find cd-key related strings such as "SOFTWARE\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 OA" (the registry location of the cd-key) inside.

In short, heed the following: If you end up being banned due to your cd-key being stolen there is nothing we can do for you."

source: http://www.battleye.com/

... I'm trying to think of where this could have happened but I personally feel like there is a serious lack of protection somewhere that BE won't admit to for obvious reasons. I can't see the massive amount of people with this problem just randomly downloading shit and hoping it works. I especially like how this whole theory of theirs is based on # of video views = people must be downloading.

Battleyes suggested solution: Buy another copy of OA... (give us more money and hope it doesn't happen again)

Well see you guys in the standalone, least the game will feel fresh, and hopefully won't steal my money or turn me into a bunny. Hopefully.

:thumbsup: :beans: cheers

[Mastabuds 32]

So dont download stuff you think could be risky? got it! :)

Edited September 30, 2012 by Mastabuds

[Josh225 129]

Honestly it's your own fault for trying to cheat, they don't magically get your cd-key. Don't have a go at BattleEye because you did something stupid.

[skyter 299]

Glad neither of you read this.

twats.

I didn't/

Edit: seriously. If you two were in the same room i'd rip both your hearts out with my bare hands. Then i'd eat them in front of you. kekekeke -_-

Edited September 30, 2012 by skyter

[Josh225 129]

seriously. If you two were in the same room i'd rip both your hearts out with my bare hands. Then i'd eat them in front of you. -_-

That escalated quickly. I read your post mate, it's just another one of these "Oh i did absolutely nothing but battleye is stupid so it banned me" posts. You did something to get your key stolen, your fault.

[SmashT 10907]

So don't download malware, buy a key from a dodgy website or cheat. It's that simple.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Black market cd-keys whats next? underground dog fights on dayz? oh wait nvm that was a thread already..

[Pvt. Kairis 14]

meh talked about before....talked about again soon...no diffrence...hacker get banned (hopfully) and we wait a week +/- a few days hacker come back......and again banned....

stand alone? or at least fix this?

[skyter 299]

meh talked about before....talked about again soon...no diffrence...hacker get banned (hopfully) and we wait a week +/- a few days hacker come back......and again banned....

stand alone? or at least fix this?

Standalone.

The only sketchy thing I've done with arma is join a few sketchy no-cdkey dayz and city life servers through the arma browser without really noticing.

The point of the thread was not to complain, just to reiterate one should be careful.

[Xfacter 0]

I read your post and now I wonder if maybe this happened to me. I hopped on DayZ one day and was banned globally but i never hacked or did sketchy stuff. Maybe it's because I found a hacked medical box and took some gear one time (AS50TWS, Silenced PDW, and some kind of grenade). But i didn't get banned till days later so I doubt that it was that. When i posted a forum voicing my opinion and frustration I got a few people backlashing at my post saying that I'm probably a hacker and sarcastically saying I work for WarZ. Seriously, whats up with gaming communities these days? They used to hold a lot of nice friendly people and now they are all jaded. And why have like most of my forum posts been complaints? Because I have a good reason to complain. In fact I don't understand why people are so fanatical about things like DayZ, which has major problems with its value as a game, being that they can so easily take away your right to play it while at the same time many others get away with breaking the rules and ruining the fair players' fun. DayZ is not all that it could be. Why shoot down my opinion with illegitimate words?

Anyways, sorry for the long post but it knaws at me that I just get to watch my game sit there and then the friendly staff and posters on these forums throw salt in my wounds. (emotional wounds that is...lol)

[Legacy (DayZ) 1091]

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