Blizzard Banned Over 5,000 StarCraft II Players

good thing i wasnt one of them. bring it on blizz

Listen for the screams of outrage starting up

In other news, Blizzard has sold over 5,000 copies of Starcraft II!

Good. Its one thing to cheat single player, but your one pathetic soul if you feel the need to cheat in multi player.

I hate cheaters! What is the point? All it does is aggravate the real players, then nobody will want to play the game, and all you did was ruin a great game. I hate cheaters and thank god Blizzard stepped up and took action. Hopefully other game developers will follow.

now i have to ask, what kind of cheaters where they?
diablo 2 want made for the high resolution of wide screens today, you patch the game to work fullscreen on a 1920x1200 screen and you will get banned for cheating, even if thats the purpose of what you are doing.

i want to know if these people were really cheating in game or if it was something harmless that got them banned.

Easiest way to get rid of cheaters is to make a game that you can mod easily for cheating and change rules of conduct accordingly. I'm doing just that with another game.

How on earth someone can cheat on multiplayer SC2, and most importantly, why? Do they feel the urge to win other players by any mean? Anyway, good job Blizzard, send home those idiots who cheat...

This sounds fair and good to me. I can't imagine anyone would have something negative to say about this, lest they be the worst kind of villiany and scum.

Good Move!!!

I was a little hesitant to buy a (non pirate) copy of the game since I don't play multiplayer.

Now that Blizzard had justified the price difference between a pirate & a legit copy (they use that money to go after cheaters), I will get one for sure although I don't play multiplayer.

I sure hope other developers (STEAM) do the same. DO that then I will stop buying pirated copies.

Let me give you a hint: Chinese mainland Counter Strike cheaters likes to use the "superman vision" cheat.

well i do. iv played mmos enough that i have been accused of cheating on multiple occasions taking advantage of how monsters react to different things. iv been banned for 3 months at one point because i soloed a mob that should have taken a group to kill, because of a glitch in the way the mob reacted to what i did. i didn't exploit it and kill it over and over, i did it once, and the glitch wasn't fixed till 6 or so months later, it was just known after my suspension that you aren't allowed to kill it that way.

i want to know what these people did.
did they take advantage of the game systems? i dont see that as banable
did they hack it? that would be an ip ban if i had it my way
did they use a non harmful mod, like my diablo 2 one i mentioned above? i see this as breaking the rules, but in a basically harmless way.

ahh well whatever I'm sure some of those people weren't doing too much, but at the end of the day if it staved off more cheaters then good.

I'd hate to see Diablo 3 ruined by cheaters

How can Diablo 3 be 'ruined' by cheaters? How the heck can Diablo 2 be ruined by cheaters?

The only thing that can happen basically is that these people can 'hack' more items than another person can or something like that. I don't see that as 'ruining' another game.

Now, if you are talking about a game that has a player vs. player portion? Then hacks can ruin the game.

actually one diablo 2 hack i believe had you pick up an item, and be unable to ever remove it from your inventory, and which you know, is notoriously small.

good news, just wish MW" would go through the same thing.... Cheating on there is beyond terrible..

I'm no fan of cheaters and I wish them the worst level of karma but I don't exactly trust Blizzard's almighty Banhammer swinging casualty free. It comes down to poor programing/design that allowed the hacks/cheats to be implemented and that is Blizzard's fault. Their should be some leniency/redemption available to the accused and for those whom are guilty beyond any doubt, I wish that there were legal actions ($500 fines) for hurting the multiplayer gameplay.

Rules are meant so nobody has an unfair advantage that makes the game less fun for others. You are just a douchebag trying haplessly to justify his actions.

i wonder how many of the 5000 were actually cheating? blizzard's notorious for swinging the ban hammer and not investigating thoroughly enough to weed out botters from legitimate accounts

When I beat someone fairly in multiplayer I feel good. I really don't see how cheaters get any kind of a rush from beating someone using hacks.

They were banned because they maphacked, drophacked, etc. Hacks. Third party programs, etc.

I have purchased the game, I havent had a whole lot of time to mess with it yet, but would its possible some folks were banned for joining private servers or even creating private servers on their own network since the game does not allow a private game. "LOCAL AREA NETWORK" game. Plus the fact that it forces the user to be connected to the internet. I am not throwing my personal opinion in if I like that or not but I knew about it when I purchases it so I cant complain. I'm just not sure how I would feel if someone was banned possibly for that reason if they are not impacting Battlenet online play. Blizzard isnt going to be able to take the time to check this, either the code is 100 percent clean or not. People would need to just make sure that they do not connect this type of code to the internet while playing private, otherwise, who knows what types of things are pushed up and down from your computer to blizzard.

I mean really.. he did it once, because he spent the time finding out the weakness in the monster ai. If anything he should get a atta-boy for the discovery and the ai fixed by the developer. It would be different if he did it 100s upon 100s of times.


That isn't cheating - it is strategy. Just because an area is group-clear only doesnt mean that it cannot be done solo with the right skills/actions. Kudos! (over in Guildwars we have figured out how to solo areas too, though anet isnt as draconic as whomever your developer is)

take a look at the resolutions you can play at, and im not sure if it can be windowed or not. i play at 1920x1200 with it, and thats the only "hack" i have is so i can full screen it without the game stretching or distorting.

BAN BAN BAN Cheaters deserve fingers cut off !!!

Ban? Burn them at the stake!

Nobody likes a cheater except another cheater, same goes for thieves.

The logic behind not allowing hacks like this, and correct me if I'm wrong, is usually because it gives an unfair field of view. Theres one example I can give: Subspace/Continuum. Anyone who remembers this game, which is still free to play and download btw, the higher the resolution the larger your field of view.

And regarding commenting on non-advantageous mods, most of the time its in the agreement (ya you know that thing nobody reads ;-) ) that even non-advantageous mods can be a ban-able offense. Reason being is you might not see it as cheating or harmful, but there's other reasons like adding an unnecessary load to their servers. In that case, a warning would be nice, straight out banning can be harsh.

i hoenstly disagree with with banning folks that paid for the game, now if the game is playable offline with out being signed into battlenet , i can see banning cheaters from MP if that is what they cheated on, but if they banned them compeltely from being able to access the game in any way ,to me that is theft ,since the people did pay 50-60 bucks for the game.

while i generally dislike cehatign especially on MP , i am more than alittle disturbed by the fact that all these companies are trying to "control" users in regards to what they do with a product that they paid for. what's more disturbing is when the companies think thier control on the User-end is justified, again while cheating is wrong and i don't advocate it , it this could elad to worse behavior sucha scompanies that try tio controll thier modding community as far as what the moddders cana dn can't do , for instance. it just reeks of "big bronther" mentality. and it rubs me wrong in so many ways. but it is good to see cheaters dget thier due.

I wish there was away to ban the loads of MW2 Hackers and cheaters.

i always enjoy stories about cheaters and SW pirates getting nailed and obviously from all the negative thumbs down clicks we have several reading these comments so "ha,ha"

It's about time.