Blizzard Removes 400,000 More Battle.Net Accounts

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the Battle.net announcement that Blizzard has removed over 400,000 more accounts from their online gaming service, due to cheating. This comes after earlier similar action in June closed over 112,000 Diablo II accounts - this time, it's been announced: "In keeping with our aggressive stance against cheating, we have permanently closed 276,000 StarCraft accounts, 86,000 Diablo II accounts, and 41,000 Warcraft III accounts." It's also mentioned that Battle.net has "identified the Diablo II accounts with which a 'map-hack' program is being used", and banning is threatened if players don't stop, another sign of Blizzard's continuing, active anti-cheating stance.

Comments

How long until a new map-hack?

[Knetzar]

I give it a week.

Even though I know that new hacks will come out, I am really glad that Blizzard is doing something about this. They seem to be responding to this previous article on online gaming.

Re:How long until a new map-hack?

[horcy]

So you'll give it a week eh. But these people if they are repeated cheaters, their key will be banned for life or at least for a whole lot of months. They'll have to spend some money to go back and play by buying a new copy in the store. And if they cheated like 3 times and they had static ip's, perm ip ban. Blizzard is going to win this.

Re:Once again

[Xenothaulus]

I have specific individuals in mind, who have actually bragged about exploiting on the boards, and the devs have done nothing about it. As you're obviously a subscriber, you probably know the people I'm talking about, or at least some of them. My actual point was that Blizzard's support record, (tech, customer or otherwise), is much better than SOE/Verant.