@Unholy One

You are so wrong on the "willing" part.

So many guys were set free during trial because the undercover agent specifically told them to go and get drugs for them. What was their defense? If they never told me to do the crime I would've never did it! And the judge lets them go. I don't condone drug dealing, by the way.

I'm with septic on this one. In the article it does say they need some "tools" to exploit the hack. How long is the ban for anyway?

@unHoly, and above

look up, the Mr Big Sting

Courts disregard it now, I believe.

Yeah its called entrapment and its unlawful.

This is like when the teacher makes a mistake, and the students point it out, then she says she was just testing them.
haha

@Unholy one,

Its nothing like an undercover sting.... at all... that analogy couldn't be any more wrong. A more accurate analogy is trying to catch a murderer by giving him a gun... I think we can all agree that's idiotic.

To put it into simple terms to prevent and mindless arguing Dice gave cheeters an exploit to exploit.. yeah real smart... as soon as it gets uploaded to youtube of course many people will do it just out of curiosity it's simple human nature. This is dumb.

Edit-----

Well if this can only be done by modding the game then sure... fine... but if it's a glitch.. just a fault in the game by doing certain inputs just plain wrong.. especially if they take out the ban hammer.

it clearly says in the article "This was done on purpose so that the developer could monitor cheaters who used certain tools to get ahead."

keyword being used certain tools. as in they had to use some sort of 3rd party cheat to make use of this exploit.

you cant just ban people for using a ingame glitch ALL the time. some glitchs are so easy to trigger on accident that you may not even be trying to cheat to fall into it.
in that game WarZ/infestation they tried this and it failed miserably they placed items/loot in places that they said only cheaters could get to. but this was wrong cause you could get to these items without cheats but by just jumping around enough and climb to some items.
that kind of anticheat is the most amateur thing you could ever do and just shows you dont know wtf you are doing in general. DICE has been around way too long to rely on such BS.
also just cause they say exploit or glitch doesnt mean its going to be some glaring thing players see in game so obviously. an exploit could just mean they left a hole in their code for hackers that make these tools to exploit and make said tool work.
kind of like if there was some tool you could use to open peoles garages easily if they left it on a certain frequency. the garage door manufactures may know this and block it out but the cops could set it up so someone could use said tool to open doors on this common frequency.

the undercover sting comparison is lame cause if you are just watching for a crime to be committed is totally different than influencing a crime yourself and asking someone to get and bring u something illegal. thats creating a crime that may not have been done otherwise. watching for a crime you will see happen whether you are there or not is different.

also hardware bans are a joke. all they are is bans based on your MAC address..which can be changed pretty easily.

As long as there doing something to help catch the cheaters.
I made countless posts on fourums and each time get told are your sh@t ect ect.
Ive played the game hardly see any cheaters thus dating back to bf3 days even.
Now DICE Admits they got big job on there hands there many out there.
What really pisses me off is that these cheaters actually pay subscription to use these tools to cheat.

@Unholy one, god damn you are screwed up kid, "it' doesn't matter as long as the criminal was willing to do it" are you freaking retard? it do not get more pathetic, then police work where they park a car in poor neighborhood just to give some guy with a hard life an even harder life, even leaving it unlocked with things that is, only meant to attract more people to thief it. delusional kids on this site, but what ever be happy with your police/military state, that kill 6 year old in front of their grandma, have 6 police officers shoot 1 homeless guy, or have 4 cops arrest 20 Africans for simply making a music video while being black.
if you place the bait, while making sure they have no other alternatives/food sources, then you ain't catching criminals, you making them your self out of normal people now.
please educate yourself instead of having I.Qs under 80.

@Infinity_Rasta

You really do not need to tell anyone to educate themselves. After that hot mess of your's i just read. It was like a 5th grader had written that.

@septic:

"Yeah its called entrapment and its unlawful."

in order for it to be entrapment, the devs would have to inform people of the exploit, invite them to take advantage of it, and then nail them for taking the bait.

so, no, it's no entrapment at all if they left the bug in there on purpose, and people discovered it on their own.

Yeah I've heard this glitch dates back to BF3. I am not entirely sure but if that is the case, then it's just poor development with a slick cover-up (which is what I initially meant). I feel like there have been too many complaints about these games from their fans to believe it was "purposely" done, ya know?