Blizzard Warms Up Banhammer for StarCraft II Cheaters

[Guyovick]

What do they mean by cheating, anyways? Wait, they could see their enemies movies? That's weird. What kind of hack would do that?

This is one form of hack.
http://www.youtube.com/user/psyStarcraft#p/u/10/LBOrDptVtak

 

[DeepComet5581]

Who the hell is stupid enough to fuck with Blizzard?

Battle.net is like a communist state. If you don't follow our stupidly strict rules IMPECCABLY, you WILL be removed, without warning and without chance for redemption.

This is why I only have the original Diablo.

 

[Corpse XxX]

Cheaters getting banned warms my heart!

 

[Sebenko]

Hell its about time

Cheater ruin online games

Did that kid escape from Mass Effect 1? GogogoGogogoGogogoGogogoGogogoGogogoGogogo. It never ended.

 

[Vesuvius Hetlan]

Does this mean I can't use the cheats they programmed for single player?
If no, Whew I can continue to dominate. Very easy difficulty opponents with 50% health.
If yes, Aww that means I have to develop non-turtling tactics.

 

[Rainboq]

[HEADING=1]Nuclear launch, detected[/HEADING]

 

[Jared]

Hehe. Well, I totally agree with it - If you cheat, you deserve the hammer of doom

 

[GoGo_Boy]

Who the hell is stupid enough to fuck with Blizzard?

Battle.net is like a communist state. If you don't follow our stupidly strict rules IMPECCABLY, you WILL be removed, without warning and without chance for redemption.

This is why I only have the original Diablo.

So you support cheaters, interesting.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

A bunch of people are about to get Hyperioned? Well, it's high time we kick that revolution into gear. Down with the hackers.

Is Hyperioned a term for being banned? That's pretty cool... if it isn't then you have a moral, ethical, physical, mental, emotional and [insert root word here]al obligation to coin it.

Well then, I think they got what they deserved. Cheating in a single player game is looked down upon, even if it was for funsies then it's still shunned; but cheating in a multiplayer game, ooh, that's just off.

 

[Traun]

Who the hell is stupid enough to fuck with Blizzard?

Battle.net is like a communist state. If you don't follow our stupidly strict rules IMPECCABLY, you WILL be removed, without warning and without chance for redemption.

This is why I only have the original Diablo.

It's sad when they ban you isn't it?
Don't worry, no one knows you're botting.

 

[WanderingFool]

Well at least I dont need to worry about hackers screwing with me all the time once I get SC2.

 

[DeepComet5581]

Who the hell is stupid enough to fuck with Blizzard?

Battle.net is like a communist state. If you don't follow our stupidly strict rules IMPECCABLY, you WILL be removed, without warning and without chance for redemption.

This is why I only have the original Diablo.

So you support cheaters, interesting.

I don't support people who cheat ONLINE. That's just brainless. Like those pirates who played Halo Reach on XBL 2 weeks before it was released.

I will however, admit to being a cheater. Whenever I get a new game, I will always search for cheats, hacks, trainers etc. I see nothing wrong with it as it doesn't affect anyone else in Single Player, and I always play through once without cheats.

 

[LeonLethality]

[HEADING=1]Nuclear launch, detected[/HEADING]

That was amazingly fitting for this.

 

[AugustFall]

Glad to see this, we need more games policing this to keep online fun.

 

[Dana22]

Well i guess Korea's fucked.

Looking how in Korea SC2 is a national sport financed from public money, I bet cheating is highly illegal there.

 

[Tiamat666]

GO BLIZZARD!

Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

I friggin hate cheaters.

 

[Cynical skeptic]

Having watched the SC2 "Behind the Scenes" DVD, the AI opponents don't know, at least according to Blizzard. They still send out scouts and whatnot so either they're deliberately coded to act as if they don't know or Blizzard weren't lying and they have in fact got an RTS AI opponent which doesn't cheat. Hell, I think it even limits their APM with regards to their difficulty settings.

I can't wait to see the QQing from people who watched their B.Net account get banhammered for cheating.

Now, I'll believe the AI doesn't "cheat" on any difficulty in the campaign. Those are very tightly designed maps with only a few probabilities for the AI to operate upon. But in large maps, the AI opponents do cheat. I've sawnoutofmemory'd (fog of war removal cheat) maps with me, 1 ai, and 6 empty starting zones, and it always "scouts" my area with it's first series of units, without fail.

Or, as protoss, rushed out 7 observers to see how it scouts, and my base is always hit first.

Not to mention, on the highest difficulty, it will always have the perfect counters to whatever tactics you use.

Not saying it can't cheat, but it does.

Did that kid escape from Mass Effect 1? GogogoGogogoGogogoGogogoGogogoGogogoGogogo. It never ended.

b.net invented gogogo

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Well i guess Korea's fucked.

Looking how in Korea SC2 is a national sport financed from public money, I bet cheating is highly illegal there.

Exactly. Which means if you cheat not only will your account be banned you'll be serving major prison time.

 

[FightThePower]

After reading the first line of this article in my head I read the rest in Tichus Findley's voice.

 

[Kogitsune]

I have to say this is also yet another creative way to bring in a little more cash for Blizzard. Not that perma banning hackers is a bad thing.