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Blizzard Bans 350,000 Cheaters from Battle.net
by Blake Ellison, Nov 11, 2008 8:00pm PSTBlizzard may be one of the luckiest game companies in the industry, considering its ten-year-old game StarCraft is still in the sales charts. But with that success comes
responsibility, and Blizzard has exhibited just that by removing 350,000 hackers from its online service Battle.net--or, in Internet lingo, they've dropped the banhammer.
An official post on the Battle.net website, spotted by Kotaku, explains the details of the bans:
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.
Battle.net will see upgrades including advanced cheat detection in time for the releases of sequels StarCraft II and Diablo III.
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I tried playing a few games recently and playing someone not cheating was impossible unless it was a friend.
It usually started off with them rushing their drones at me and then somehow having about 100 of whatever unit, even though they had no minerals...it got pretty out of hand...but I don't blame them the game is old, its just I would of liked to play a game still. Which I can if its with a friend, at least the servers are still supported (i mean the lobbies and the browser list)
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i've played about 1000 games in the past year and my shit list of cheaters (mineral hack) is exactly 58
big. now consider most those games were 3on3's on bgh, we're talking about ~3000 players.
even when i play 1on1's, i haven't found a single hacker.
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