In a move that suggests that they want to take a tough line on people who cheat and unfairly exploit glitches in the code to the detriment of other players in their games, Bohemia Interactive announced yesterday that anyone banned with their BattlEye system will not only be kicked from the game they committed their crimes in: it’ll now extend to all their games.

This means that Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, Arma 3 and DayZ among others will now be tied together with the anti-cheat system, and that being caught in one game could mean you lose your access to all the other games tied to the system.

DayZ is a difficult enough game without coming across other players who have cheated their way to gain some measure of power over you. I dare say that Bohemia has a system to dispute bans and to investigate people before making the decision to cut them off completely from their games. Otherwise this move could end up taking out more than just the exploiters…