The integration of BattlEye into Tibia presented a new strategy of combating cheating. Instead of trying to detect and punish cheaters, BattlEye prevents players from playing while using any other software that it considers suspicious. For this reason, servers released with active BattlEye protection are said to be cheat free, and for this reason will probably be closed for transfers coming from servers that were already "contaminated" by cheaters for a very long time.