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Blizzard kills accounts

[s]blizzard[/s]Every time Blizzard does this I smile. I suspect secondary intentions with all these account closings and bans, but as a fog of war worshipper, I am celebrating. Notice that the vast majority are from Starcraft.

I will quote here news from Battle.net:


Starcraft and Warcraft III Accounts Closed
Tuesday, April 13, 2004

A number of additional accounts and CD keys have been tied to the use of a hack or cheat program while playing StarCraft or Warcraft III on Battle.net. In keeping with our aggressive stance against cheating, we have permanently closed 291,000 StarCraft accounts and 16,000 Warcraft III accounts. 6,000 of the Warcraft III CD keys used with the now-closed accounts have been banned from ladder play for one month, and 1,500 more have been banned from ladder play permanently. Repeat offenders risk having their CD keys disabled, which will result in the permanent removal of their copies of StarCraft or Warcraft III from Battle.net.
We will continue to monitor Battle.net for cheating and take action as needed. A false report filed by one player against another will not result in the actions described above.

As always, thank you for your continued support; with your help we have been able to keep Battle.net a fun and safe place to play Blizzard games.


This would make the second massive banning within 2 months. I wonder why they have started doing this now after so many years. This change also coincides with a new patch coming out for W3. I could make many interesting deductions from this but I shall remain silent, as they would only be malicious hypothesis.

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Battle.net - News source
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