Complaint Review: Bohemia Interactive - Nationwide

Bohemia Interactive,

I am currently in a BattlEye Global ban as we speak and it's completely killed my participation with a lot of games. I was actually disappointed that a single hack shield can affect a wide variety of products that were on the market, felt discouraged from gaming because of my career pursuits, whined a bit about the product, and then just moved onto computer programming as I did before touching the subject of seriously gaming to begin with.

The video game that I was banned on and the entire steam client has been off of my hard drive for about two weeks now. I've had no intentions of re-installing it. My steam profile url ends with 76561198228324104 if that helps with anything. Honestly, any and all aspirations I have with video games are kind of dead, not even interested in getting a global ban number because it includes installing the product again.

I'm not entirely sure what triggered my game ban and I understand that it will not be disclosed. I do know that I am attending college for database, web, and applications programming. I attended TSTC. At this point of time I am attending Cisco college. I mess with a wide variety of products. I've never used them towards a game or a hack because their is simply not enough revenue in that field of computer programming.

Before I attended college, I was honorably separated from the U.S. Army. I served as a 94e. The job was Radio COMSEC Repairer/Operator. COMSEC is short for Communications Security. It does pertain to cryptography, frequency hopping, and more. Obviously, I have the engineers background.

The ban also occurred about a couple weeks after I got my step daughter (who I do not have custody of) her own steam account, her own user account, and I did purchase ARK: Survival Evolved and let her play on her own account. I did this because she isn't here often and she has been wanting to play as well.

Their was not a single hack on that game. I had played about 2,000 honest hours before the ban and after I received the ban I was pretty pissed. Then after I received it I haven't even let another child play it on the same machine, which is the only machine, and that regards any of steams products.

Ever since then, I have actually been studying the Unreal 4 Engine. It is currently 24 days after my ban, likely that all of my work on that game is lost, and I probably don't have anything left while my discord of players who legitimately miss my activity in the game keeps posting activity and before I was booted, they told me I wasn't an easy player to miss.   

I don't know what to think of you guys. See, the thing is that the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance ends with "Justice and Liberty for all" while Patrick Henry quoted "Give me liberty, or give me death!" during his speech that he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23rd, 1775.  The philosophy behind the pledge of allegiance is that our individual and corporate freedom exists within the boundaries of ethical and moral responsibility and that their will be no merit or punishment if their is nothing substantial to convict or prove the crime. Basically, we do not hang "Suspects" here in the U.S. 

Whenever I look at the fact that my steam account has that global ban listed on it for the public to see, the fact that the community itself is so vile for those who have game or VAC bans, and the fact that their is a boasted about score on your products success, I think about my case. 

Reprimanded, despite that I had done nothing to the product and punished for being a suspect because of what I involve into my personal life as a computer scientist. I have to think, how much of that success is actually failure? 

I've already lost my game. I've already left the industry. The game is already off my drive. I've already disconnected my steam account from the ark forums. I have never and likely will never purchase another product from steam again.

I also purchased an EVGA GTX 1080 Classified Edition graphics card to play this video game, thrive and flourish at school, and have an active professional life. Their are several things that I have and am doing which would indicate that I do not flourish or desire to hack a video game.

I have already moved towards Visual Studio, UE4, PHP, RHEL VPS... side of things for not just work, but also entertainment. I wen this way because anti-hack killed any and all motivation to even be a player.  

I cannot be the only one.

Thank You!

Kevin B. H