Blizzard Busts 320,000 in Battle.net Ban

[Pendragon9]

What you've neglected to mention is that to celebrate this occasion, Blizzard is outfitting their banhammer with diamonds, various illegal drugs and prostitutes, and are riding their recently released celestial horse while banning people. Just for safe measure, they strapped a terran ghost to the front armed with a nuke.

When they ban, they ban in style.

 

[Lucane]

I have no clue what on earth monster munch is....

The food of Kings

It gives me a warm feeling whenever cheats get banned.

That looks weird, pickled onion? never heard of the company, but now i have an image to put with it. for some reason seems british to me

Walkers is (I believe...it!) the Europeon side of LAYS Potato Chips you'll notice the Logo is similar.

On Topic: Sucks to be a cheater sometimes huh. I wonder if it stopped any illegal copies.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

A few innocents were likely caught up in this.

Let's have a moment of silence for those 6 people.

 

[GreatVladmir]

The food of Kings

It gives me a warm feeling whenever cheats get banned.

Mmmmmm, the best crisps ever made, end of.

And I remember I got a message from a WoW admin couple of weeks ago telling me to log onto my Battle.net account within the hour or face a ban, so I did n didn't get banned, still dunno why they did that.

Yeah, those bastards got what they deserved, bloody cheaters ruin everything for everyone.

 

[ark123]

Jesus Christ, these people take their jobs seriously. Good on ya Bliz.

 

[Iskenator67]

If me and my friends experience with Blizzard tells us anything, it's that most of these people may not have deserved to be banned. Back when we played WOW we had to call and tear Blizzard a new one countless times for charges that were completely untrue form selling our account to hacking to repeating quests to gold selling. All of witch were untrue and required us to spend hours getting to and speaking with a Blizzard customer support person to explain to them the charges were incorrect and to get them removed. It got to the point were we just quit playing on there servers and found "other means" to enjoy our games. I don't trust anyone at Blizzard for the hell they put me and my friend through. And if I ever met an employee. It would take every ounce of strength in my body to stop myself from beating him down. If other people enjoy and like Blizzard good for you. If they haven't pulled that kind of bullshit on you yet congratulations but me and my friends consider it to be one the worst companies out there. They overcharge on everything too but that is just a personal opinion.

 

[cieply]

I got caught in this ban. Oh well, diablo 2 with no maphack isn't for me anymore.

 

[iLikeHippos]

Shit. I own a Wacraft III account and have violated the laws at the very least 50 times. And one of them were spamming one asshole for being a real ############ ##### to me.

This will be very, very interesting.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Game over yeeeaaah! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6aRwky0W5Y]

This is why you don't cheat online, kiddies. The admins will have your ass.

I'm inclined to tell a story where I actually got fucked over by a hacker on Open Battle.net (yay me, I was pre-teen and stupid back then). Someone dropped this charm in Town and I casually picked it up. It made my character disappear, lock all actions and I couldn't go beyond the screen's borders. Had to use an external program to delete the thing (and fortunately didn't suffer lingering effects).

 

[Skratt]

The bad part about this is that they're sweeping everything, not just the bad stuff. I've had to stop using a third-party program whose sole purpose is to reconnect the user after they've lost connection; in other words, it's an unofficial patch for Blizzard's 10-year-old multiplayer code. It can't do anything else. Yet, they'll ban you for using it.

I understand where they're coming from, but maybe they should update those ToS or something. This makes them look plain stupid.

If you consider that you play the game for free online, banning people for using a network clogging auto reconnect software (which can be used for running a bot) is not entirely unreasonable.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

If you consider that you play the game for free online, banning people for using a network clogging auto reconnect software (which can be used for running a bot) is not entirely unreasonable.

The network lag is negligible, so that's no excuse. Besides, the bots run registered accounts. If all they're doing is saving connections from Blizzard's own faulty coding, there's no real problem.

 

[megapenguinx]

Many of the bans were made as the result of tip-offs from "legitimate" Battle.net users and Bashiok encouraged everyone to continue informing on their neighbors. "If you come across a hack, find a site responsible for distributing hacks, or have a replay of a newly available hack, please report this to our hacks team at [email protected] or through our Hacks Report Form," he added.

Umm... just FYI a system like this was once implemented in East Germany.

Ah yes, the massive banning of '97. We lost a lot of good men that day (Plays dirge in his head).
Anywho, it's good they are cleaning up battle.net. I rememebr playing starcraft on there back in the old days and falling victim to hacked games and losing because of exploits

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

Umm... just FYI a system like this was once implemented in East Germany.

Really? They had Battle.net in East Germany?

Andy, I... I think I love you.

 

[dochmbi]

I don't think exploiting should be a bannable offense, at least not without warning, because I think it's not the gamers responsibility to know how the game is or is not meant to be played.

 

[Enigmers]

I noticed less advertising bots in the D2 lobbies recently, that's good. I play in private games only so those "hop into your game, copy and paste a message, log out" bots don't bother me.

 

[Enigmers]

Umm... just FYI a system like this was once implemented in East Germany.

Really? They had Battle.net in East Germany?

Yes, though the full name was Dasbattalien Netwerkenschpiel. I think it was a store that revolved around selling small arms for household and self-defense.

 

[ucciolord1]

Rrrarrgg! Blizzard smash!!!!

 

[GL2814E]

That sucks... do they apply that towards DOTA at all? My old roommates used to shout endlessly at their DOTA on Battlenet when they were losing and someone was allegedly cheating...