Over 320K Warcraft III, Diablo II Accounts Banned

What were the charges to drop accounts, BOTS?

uh...there are really that many people playing those games?

Doesn't WOW have like 10 million plus players?

correction there that many BOTS playing those games

People still play Diablo II?

WoW alone has like 7 million costumers. I am sure it is about the same number for Warcraft III and diablo II.

How many accounts are still being accessed regularly? I had no idea there were so many who still played those games

Might be getting numbers wrong but you forget about those in China and around the world.

The numbers amaze me!

Log into Diablo2 or Warcraft3, the welcome message says how many total users along with how many are currently online.

It was 11.5 million subscribers 16 months ago.

Thank goodness... I tried going back to DII a few months ago but it was all bots and mining, so I stopped. Maybe I'll go back and try it again.

I still play Diablo II from time to time. Blizzard is still doing stuff for the game. Just last month they released a new patch (1.13c) with some fixes and additions.

This is WHY I play on a private server, I would hate to be banned having spent all that money. In my opinion those who get banned should be able to have some financial compensation having paid for the initial purchase and the monthly fees.

You cheated, you get banned.

The logic isn't that hard to follow.

This article isn't about WoW?

What are costumers? Is that some kind of cosplay thing?

nforce4max there are no monthly fees for those games. And second these users broke the Terms of service for the game. Thats like saying I got 3 dui's in 1 month and had my drivers license revoked so I want my money back from the car I just bought. No dice. You know the rules, you break the rules, you lose..period.

costumer - costumier: someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade

I thought a costumer was someone who looks at the recent cost of games and software and says "umm" "umm" (cost "umm" er)

Warcraft III != WOW. I cheated Diablo II single player after I finished it legit...it got a bit boring after a while.

in Diablo II, probably usage of "trainers" or toolkits that allows you to get custom armors, and insane stats on your character.

Now that we are talking older games i'll have to wipe the dust off my old Atari, NES, and SNES systems, and invite my friends over for a retro game night.

nothing warms my heart then reading stories about cheaters and game pirates getting banned!!

=D

Hope they didn't ban all bots on WC3.
Some of them were quite useful, such as bots used for auto hosting (maps such as The Black Road had almost all of their users use the host bots. The bots also recorded all gameplay to look for cheaters and a mod could directly intervene via the bot whenever needed).
Diablo 2 on the other hand, screw the bots.

I was into WC3 for quite a while only 6 months ago, but I grew bored.
I tried playing D2 again, but running 640x480 on a 2048x1152 monitor is depressing. I also lost my expansion key so I could pimp out a druid.

I do miss Diablo 2 though. I sunk a incredible amount of time into that game. My favourite was 3 hammerdins, all with different auras, running around and raping bosses. The cow level was also awesome (I was depressed when I saw the WoW loading message 'there is no secret cow level').

Yesterday when I was on battle.net approx 38000 people were playing diablo 2 lod games on the eu realm


I just hope with the new wave of bans that my very last cdkey isn't banned. Last time they gave me a perma ban for 'advertising inappropriate websites' which turned out to be the fact that I used www.opel.cc (my own homepage, about cars) as account name.

The ladder just reset a few weeks ago - bots are back, but the gameplay was back too for a while - since nobody had anything, and whatever you wanted cost overprice. For instance I paid a gul rune for my first eth titans (day 2 after reset), and possibly even a spirit shield would cost an ist (since forgedrops are easier to find than monarchs).
It seems though, that now everybody has a torch and anni, and every second player is a d2jsp bot.

I still play Diablo2 and i enjoy the bots hosting baal runs in Hardcore =p
=) US EAST ftw

hard to believe but Warcraft 3, which is a 7-year old game...is still quite popular in the Philippines, even more popular than Call of Duty 4. My theory is that too many people have would rather buy a real old game than invest on better hardware or an Xbox 360/PS3

That's a hardcore ban.
I guess its easier to ban floks when they aren't paying anything for the service anyway.

Why is DII (LoD) still this popular?

IMO because of 2 things most games lack: serious depth -- like 1-in-a-billion item drops -- and serious challenge -- hell skill, hardcore. Others' mileage may vary. Some people dig the ladder, some are into botting, hacking, living the JSP life, etc. Some may simply like the fact that it's a fairly kick-*** game which still runs on their 10-year-old machines.

Warcraft III I can't vouch for. Had fun playing the campaigns years ago but have booted it up a couple times since and it feels/looks crude. That whole blocky art style (necessity though it may have been, as it was one of the first 3d RTSes) is one of the big turnoffs/why I was never interested in playing WoW. Then again, sometimes when I think about how they've probably adopted a lot of D2 mechanics in WoW, I almost feel like breaking out the credit card...