Sniperturtle

...all those idi... people who think you can legally cheat now... What's your exact problem? The cheaters are there anyways, whether they re-roll or play on their original account. Those that were banned unfairly will be able to get back though.

Obvious trolling is obvious

Like i said, they added an exception (even announced that on the forums and in USP-Styles Thread) for it so it was not considered bannable. They also did not pursue every infraction on the game files, but it was and as it stands is considered a bannable offense, period.

Quite the contrary, the old ToS forbade ANY change in the game files. G1 did not go after everything and created an exception for APB-Launcher - but if you want to be on the safe side, which is advisable atm, you just keep your fingers out of those files.

Sure they will be able to see that here or there in that particular case the circumstances were fishy, maybe they even put the old system to the test and found it lacking, no doubt there. The error is in your next point: As you stated yourself it would be a task beyond any mortal to go and look over each individual ban, the exact circumstances that led to the ban and review whether FF worked properly that day, or whether some GM had cat-piss in their coffee this morning and was banning for the most harmless things, or if these persons got banned for things unrelated to cheating even. I am not quite sure what the latest count on ffbans.org for cheaters only was, but it would have been somewhere in the six-digit range.

What you don't understand apparently is that due to past false positives and completly useless bans this is opening a chance for everyone who got banned unfairly to come back. There will be GMs in game and new anti-cheat. So you can now put your china back on the shelf and quit being mad and upset. Yes, those got banned unfairly by your standards, others were using shaders or the like to have names clip through walls, etc. It is impossible to weed the unjust from the just, and if the new anti-cheat works as advertised there wont be a reason to worry about that. Your point is that it will look like a cheater got away with cheating, that is not the case for they have been banned and prevented access to the game for the time being - so punishment was handed out accordingly. Now if they play clean and fair there shouldn't be a problem - otherwise it's the hammer again.

Thanks to both Matt and Kempington for that Q&A. You both did a great job, and hearing Matt it sounds like APB is finally heading the right way.

Thanks for the summary, it should be more visible though, especially the part about APB-Launcher.