Punkbuster Interview

FiringSquad has posted an interview with Tony Ray, the founder of Even Balance, about cheating in online games. His closing statement is particularly interesting. "Think about it, cheating and lying go hand in hand. If a punk hack author admitted openly that PunkBuster was catching his customers and banning their accounts, how many cheats would he sell? We have actually seen several cases where an honest player pays for a cheat so he can send it to us and then logs into the private forums only to find out about all the angry 'customers' who either have no working cheats as promised or who are getting banned over and over due to our detections of the supposedly-undetected hacks for which they paid." Some people will never learn that you just can't trust a cheater.

More: Cheating in Online Games - It may never be completely eliminated, but significant progress toward fair play has been made over the years.