Continuing with our string of good news today, it's being reported that Blizzard dished out over 350,000 bans to Battle.net users. These bans from Blizzard's Battle.net service came about after it was found that StarCraft and Diablo II players were using third-party hacks.
In addition, some 7,700 Warcraft III accounts were also banned for similar reasons.
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As part of our continued effort to ensure a fair and fun online experience for all Battle.net players, we have expanded our efforts to remove cheaters from StarCraft and Diablo II. We have identified and closed over 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo II accounts which were found to be using third-party hacks.
The Diablo II CD keys associated with the closed Diablo II accounts are now restricted from playing on Battle.net for approximately 30 days. Repeat offenders will have their accounts closed and their CD keys permanently banned from Battle.net.
As a reminder, we reserve the right to close the accounts and ban the CD keys of players who are caught cheating on Battle.net. Cheating ruins the game experience for legitimate players, and we will not tolerate it.
The Diablo II CD keys associated with the closed Diablo II accounts are now restricted from playing on Battle.net for approximately 30 days. Repeat offenders will have their accounts closed and their CD keys permanently banned from Battle.net.
As a reminder, we reserve the right to close the accounts and ban the CD keys of players who are caught cheating on Battle.net. Cheating ruins the game experience for legitimate players, and we will not tolerate it.
In addition, some 7,700 Warcraft III accounts were also banned for similar reasons.
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. This way it cannot be disabled or bypassed and probably just logs and reports back to the master servers instead of an instant ban.
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