350, 000 Battle.Net Accounts Banned...

Blizzard just banned 350,000 Battle.net accounts caught cheating in Diablo II and StarCraft games. This is a strong message to those who are still cheating or were planning to, as well as a strong message to those who plan to play Starcraft 2 and Diablo III in the new upcoming Battle.net 2.0 where cheating measures will be tighter:

Blizzard Quote:
"As part of our continued effort to ensure a fair and fun online experience for all Battle.net players, we have expanded our efforts to remove cheaters from StarCraft and Diablo II. We have identified and closed over 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo II accounts which were found to be using third-party hacks.

The Diablo II CD keys associated with the closed Diablo II accounts are now restricted from playing on Battle.net for approximately 30 days. Repeat offenders will have their accounts closed and their CD keys permanently banned from Battle.net.

As a reminder, we reserve the right to close the accounts and ban the CD keys of players who are caught cheating on Battle.net. Cheating ruins the game experience for legitimate players, and we will not tolerate it."

Source: Battle.net

 

Serves them right.

I never understood what was the point of cheating in a game. Doesn't that just ruin the whole game experience?

 

whoooaaa, blizz is laying down the banhammer. scary shiz, so remember kids! stay in school and do your own homework! or you'll get your sc and d2 accounts BANNED

 

Old news dood, this happened like a week ago

 

Yeah. I'm aware. A lot of times I pass over news like this because it's not really SC2 news. But if a member submits it I will usually post it .

 

Good. Maybe thats why there seem to be a lot of really good players.

 

Not quite, I mean, yeah it happened Wednesday, but still, it's not like it's archaic or anything.

I agree wholeheartedly with demohunto. Took the words right out of my mouth. Serves them right, and cheating in a game has got to be one of the lowest acts ever. I honestly don't understand why people would do it. I mean, sure, you'll win a few games or duels, but... Well... So? There're no stakes, there's no gain or any sense of achievement...

Oh well, goodbye Russian Hack Team.

 

rofl, yeah... I dont understand why people hack either.
But I have a couple of friends who got banned because they were using black list or antihacks for example..

Not all of those 350k users were hacking.. although problably most of em were.

 

I hope this gives those jerks actually get the message. Starcraft2 is gonna be the bomb so I just hope this won't happen to ruin it.

 

Well presumably they'll be increasing the security for Battle.Net2.0, and if they've already shown that they're serious about cheaters and hackers, then not only will people be discouraged from doing so, but let's just say I doubt Blizzard's going to just stop here and hope it works.

 

Go the almighty ban hammer!
Actually I'm happy Blizzard clamped down on the law. Sure cheating and haxoring your own games is fine. But for online games most people want to play it as the game was designed. ie no hacks/cheats. Actually I'll hack my own games of D2. Mind you this is single player only. I'd never hack on B.net.

When you've beaten a game for the umpteenth time hacking it can bring more enjoyment to the player. And keep the game alive. But for all the players who just want a straight game, I say well done Blizzard.

And in an ideal world you'd need no antihack measures. And I think this is Blizzard's goal.

 

Blizzard, laying down the law as always.

 

I would say "HA! TAKE THAT!" but my account, with over five thousand games that I made the day of the StarCraft 2 announcement, got banned a short time ago for using anti-hacks. Anti-hacks that told me if someone was automining or mineral hacking. Since my account was banned, there was a new version of the hack that got around the "Warden System" and should allow me to anti-hack without getting banned So, just so you guys know, unless there's a huge update in the Warden System, these 350,000 accounts will be just about the only accounts banned because hackers have already gotten around it.

 

Sweet. Doesn't bother me non. Glad Blizzard is crackn down.

 

Some people in Diablo 2 may make money by selling on eBay for real cash virtual items found in Diablo, and some kids may find some virtual compensation to emotional insecurity by having a gozu-looking account in Warcraft.

You can easily spot those profiles, because they spend most of their time in the chat channels, and the first one talk a lot about links and "great stuff" etc, telling you how the game you play is poor and how much better it would be if you would go on those sites, while the second one cannot say anything without putting "nub" somewhere in his/her replies.

Blizzard does not make much effort regarding cheating, this is just some cheap claims for free, like Russia talking about war in another domain. If they really wanted to get rid of cheaters in Diablo 2, they would automatically ban any account that 1°) join in a game, 2°) write 2-5 messages in a row, with colors and/or links, 3°) quit the game and join another, and then ban all the accounts related with the businesses involved in the advertised sites. This is a very old debate, and nothing has ever been done this way. Banning thousands of accounts is just a matter of some commands to launch in the database and then some sensational announcements to the masses, while actively fighting cheats involve patches and monitoring, which looks like to be harder for them. Oh and to play the game, in order to find out what these cheats are about exactly.

Do you realise that by saying that, you blame somebody for discussing something that is a week "old", on forum which main purpose is to discuss a game that will probably not be released in another year? What are your definition of a old news? 24 hours? maybe less? And then afterwards we definitely shouldn't discuss this in any way because, man, this is very old news now...

Anti-hacks are still technically hacks: they affect the game and are not officially released and supported by the official developer.
How can we be so sure that this piece of software does not tell you more about the game than just indicating if your opponents use automining or something?

 

You could find out by any of the ways you would get information on anything else. In the era of rapid information via the internet, the possibilites are limitless.

But, either way, who cares? I wasn't saying Blizzard was wrong. I was just stateing that my account got banned. I couldn't care less about that account especially since my CD Key didn't get banned .. but even if it did, I wouldn't care about that either because I've got five or six of them from the amount of copies I've come in contact with over the last ten years (Family and myself).

But, as far as being sure.. You wouldn't know unless you tried it or read about it so why are you asking me? If I enabled it to I could get all kinds of information on the players such as APM, minerals, when and where they ping, as well as turn on the other hacks such as map hacks and mineral hacks. But, I don't. So, why are you asking this? Are you saying that I might be using actual hacks and not telling you? I'm quite confused on the purpose of this question. I know the exact reason I got banned; for using anti-hacks which is, indeed, a hack so what's the point of this question?

But, as far as the "not being released or supported by the developer"; I couldn't care less about that either. I'll even give the remotest of a * when there are little to no hackers and I don't have to worry about them when I join a public game. That probably will never happen with StarCraft: Brood War so I'm going to continue anti-hacking for all eternity without the slightest bit of guilt. I won't have a care in the world.

-- Speaking of which, I played on USWest today, and I must say.. That server is pathetic in the skills of the players ... I immediately went back to USEast. What's the deal with that server?

 

unfortunatly hackers will always be one step ahead.

but i am glad to see Blizzard still making an effort to keep the online experience fun.

-Zerks

 

Blizzard proves it has the largest Ban Hammer. The power of our mods trembles beneith Blizzard's mightly tread!

Here's to SC2 being (mostly) hack free!

.....should I see it as ironic that I started SC1 with a copied CD key?

 

That is what they want you to believe.

But they are the first ones to say that almost every online game is not really designed to be hack-proof, and that the build of their network and game mechanics simply tell that the developers do not really care much about cheaters most of the time.

And surprisingly the netcode for MMORPG becomes much, much better.

 

As long as there's an equal amount of anti-hacks it's no problem .. except when you get banned for doing what Blizzard should do.