Blizzard bans 350k from Battle.net News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
Having banned nearly 8,000 people for cheating at Warcraft III a fortnight ago, Blizzard has now banned over 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo II accounts also "found to be using third-party hacks" on Battle.net.
"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," the company said in a statement.
However, it's not a death sentence for the Diablo II cheaters, whose CD keys will still allow them to log in again after "approximately 30 days" and make a new account, in order to see if they've learned their lesson. If not, they and their pesky CD keys will be sent packing in a subsequent "ban policy update".
"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."
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Comments: 1-13 of 13 in total
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Stardusted
12/11/08 @ 08:42
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Yeah, log in again after the 30 days, and re-ruin the experience.
...btw first... :P |
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Penguinzoot
12/11/08 @ 08:48
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Yeah, log in again after the 30 days, and re-ruin the experience.
' [if they don't learn their lesson] .... they and their pesky CD keys will be sent packing in a subsequent "ban policy update".' |
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SpyroViper
12/11/08 @ 09:24
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Blizzard should ban their CD keys too, make the stupid W@nkers pay for another copy to learn how to play these games. They are probably those stupid kid n00bs who can't learn how to hotkey in Starcraft.
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Corben Dallas
12/11/08 @ 10:09
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pfff banning them and their CDkeys yeah good start.....
But how about 550volts up the yazoo or setting their PC to self distruct. ...much more like it. ]:) |
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kangarootoo
12/11/08 @ 10:31
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I played a demo of Battlefield on the XB360 ages back, and found the experience to be filled with kids who got their kicks by shooting members of their own team. Quite bizarre really.
I guess a demo is free, and so people treat it differently. Not quite sure what actualy reward those players felt they were getting though. Maybe it just saved them the trouble of having to walk to the other side of the map to find enemies. |
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SpyroViper
12/11/08 @ 12:27
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^ people are still playing Starcraft. Millions in fact, why do you think it's taken Blizzard over 10 years to get Starcraft 2 almost done? If there are millions of players playing your game after 12 years would you be in a rush to make a sequel..
Blizzard are one fo the last great PC devs. /salute |
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