Warcraft and Diablo cheaters likely find themselves unable to log-on today. In a digital spring cleaning of epic proportions, Blizzard announced it has banned more than 320,000 players for "abuse of unintended mechanics and/or use of third party programs."
The official notice reads:
We’ve recently banned over 320,000 Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts that were found to be violating the Battle.net Terms of Use. If this is a first offense, the CD key associated with the banned account will be suspended for 30 days, while repeat offenders will see their keys banned permanently. All account ban decisions are final.
We would like all players to remember that abuse of unintended mechanics and/or use of third party programs is a violation of the agreement made when signing on to Battle.net, and can subject your account to disciplinary action up to and including a permanent ban of its access to the service. These types of activities can severely impact the stability of our servers, and we’ll continue to aggressively monitor Battle.net in order to protect the service and its players from the harmful effects of cheating.
As Blizzard gears up for the release of
StarCraft II, Diablo III, and the third expansion for
World of Warcraft Cataclysm, on the new Battle.net, it's clear the company is taking the gloves off. Many account closures come as the direct result of tips emailed to our hacks team by legitimate Battle.net users. Are you cheating in any of Blizzard's games? If so, you better watch out as it has come to light that Blizzard is banning a whole slew of users. In fact, it was recently announced that Blizzard will be banning a whole lot than this.
