If you’ve been cheating to get ahead in “Starcraft 2” you may find you can’t play any longer on Battlenet.
Blizzard announced that it would ban players who used cheats and hacks of the popular game. Citing its terms of service, Blizzard has locked out about 5000 users from its Battle.net servers.
“We recently took action, including suspensions and bans, on over 5,000 StarCraft 2 players who were in violation of the Battle.net Terms of Use for cheating and/or using hack programs while playing. In addition to undermining the spirit of fair competition that’s essential to play on Battle.net, cheating and hacking can lead to stability and performance issues with the service. Maintaining a stable, safe, and secure online-gaming experience for legitimate players is a top priority for us, and we’ll be continuing to keep watch on Battle.net and take action as needed,” the company said on its web site.
Good!
love it when game complanies crack down on idiots that cheat!
I love that Blizzard did something, but it points out a flaw in the design of the game. Now that these folks have been banned from Battle.net, they are unable to play the game *at all*, even single-player, because the first thing you do when you start the game is log onto Battle.net.
I would agree with them blocking access to the multi-player access, but the way it’s set up now, these accounts have no way to play the game, even just against the computer AI.
Actually Gazerbeam you should still be able to play the single player version. You just can’t earn any achievements because you can’t log into Battle.net.
Or at least that was my understanding for the people who don’t have online access….
In my experience, before I’m even allowed to get to the game menu, it asks me to log on to Battle.net. You might be right, though, and I just didn’t bother looking for another way 🙂
However I am sure those hackers will be able to come up with something that will act as a proxy allowing them to still play the game, the equivalent of a No-CD patch so to speak. But really it would be no great loss anyway.