Electronic Arts Bans Battlefield 3 Players Over Repair Tool Exploit

An unspecified number of players, more than one hundred by apparently less than one thousand, have had their Battlefield 3 accounts banned by the people at Electronic Arts because they have used exploits and stat boosting techniques in order to get unfair advantages in the multiplayer section of the first person shooter.

Electronic Arts also says that a number of other players have had their stats wiped for playing the game in a way that is unfair to other gamers.

The Twitter message reads: “This week we’ve banned hundreds of offending accounts and have stats-wiped accounts for exploiting (such as boosting)...”

The company also says that it is continuing to monitor all those who are engaging with Battlefield 3 in order to make sure that the game remains competitive and no one is able to game the system and become successful through negarious means.

It seems that most of the offending players were using a new boosting method which allowed them to rack in a large number of points, in the tenths of thousands, by using their repair tool in ways that were not intended by the developers.

DICE is developing a patch to fix the issues but urges players not to take advantage of it in the meantime, because bans will be coming for all those who are detected as having used it.

Video game like Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, who are locked in a battle for the best selling title for this year, live and die on the strength of their multiplayer modes.

This means that keeping the playing field free of exploits and bugs is one of the main missions for the development teams at DICE and Infinity Ward after the game is launched.

Battlefield 3 has managed to ship 10 million units and sell 5 of those during its first week on sale.