Warcraft 3 cheaters banned News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
Blizzard Entertainment has reasserted its aggressive stance against cheating in its online games, permanently shutting down over 50,000 user accounts this week.
"We will continue to monitor Battle.net for cheating and take action as needed," Blizzard said in a statement. "As always, thank you for your continued support; with your help we have been able to keep Battle.net a fun and safe place to play Blizzard games."
The cull, which sees 53,928 Warcraft III accounts shut down, meaning that users will have to recreate their online identities and attempt to build up their ranking afresh, is the latest example of the company's close monitoring policy when it comes to online play through its proprietary service, Battle.net.
In addition to closing down specific accounts, Blizzard has also banned a total of 8,168 actual Warcraft III CD keys from ladder play for one month - meaning that players are effectively barred completely for that time unless they were to go out and buy another copy of the game - while 3,331 CD keys have been banned permanently.
"Repeat offenders risk having their CD keys disabled, which will result in the permanent removal of their copies of Warcraft III from Battle.net," the company warned.
Blizzard regularly bans Battle.net accounts, and has been targeting cheaters in its MMORPG hit World of Warcraft recently too.
Previous purges of its games have seen many thousands of Warcraft III and Starcraft accounts closed permanently.
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Captain Fetid
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I agree it's a closed service, and that Blizzard can act as they see fit, but - undoubtedly apart from the many hordes of players unjustly whining - how do they make sure there's no collateral damage? Are all banned accounts 100% sure cheaters?
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Well done bliz, more companies need to be zero tolerance against cheaters. And ave, they always give you a chance to plead your case, and ive never met anyone who wasnt trying to f ck the system somehow who was mis-accused.
Cheaters and hackers for multiplayer games just spoil it for everyone, and hopefully as they slowly learn that doing things like that will just screw themselves over in the long run, they will stop doing it, and companies will not have to be so... quick & harsh with penalties. |
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