112,000 accounts deleted for Cheating in Diablo 2..

[HiTek21]

I wish there were a way to ban all hackers in Counter Strike.

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: kt
I find it amusing that Blizzard is taking "strong" stand on anti-hacking. Yet, if you go to Ebay you'll see MILLIONS and MILLIONS of hacked items being sold ON THEIR PROPERTY. Blizzard is supplying "the means" for all these hacked items to be sold. How else do you think the sellers and buyers do their transaction? Ship the hacked items thru UPS? All I am saying is they are doing a half-ass job.

There's nothing wrong with selling such items legitimately IMO, and there's not really anything Blizzard can do anyhow. The money gets transacted through eBay, and all Blizzard sees are two players trading.

You don't see the parallelism? One word, DRUGS. I am all for people selling LEGITIMATE items, but hacked items aren't exactly legitimate in my book. For godsake, someone basically exploited their servers and created those items. All Blizzard have to do is tell Ebay no more hacked items auction, but they haven't lifted a finger to do anything about it.

 

[Hooligan]

Originally posted by: HiTek21
I wish there were a way to ban all hackers in Counter Strike.

word

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: kt
I find it amusing that Blizzard is taking "strong" stand on anti-hacking. Yet, if you go to Ebay you'll see MILLIONS and MILLIONS of hacked items being sold ON THEIR PROPERTY. Blizzard is supplying "the means" for all these hacked items to be sold. How else do you think the sellers and buyers do their transaction? Ship the hacked items thru UPS? All I am saying is they are doing a half-ass job.

There's nothing wrong with selling such items legitimately IMO, and there's not really anything Blizzard can do anyhow. The money gets transacted through eBay, and all Blizzard sees are two players trading.

You don't see the parallelism? One word, DRUGS. I am all for people selling LEGITIMATE items, but hacked items aren't exactly legitimate in my book. For godsake, someone basically exploited their servers and created those items. All Blizzard have to do is tell Ebay no more hacked items auction, but they haven't lifted a finger to do anything about it.

I think there's a bit of confusion; I completely agree that people shouldn't be allowed to sell hacked items, although I believe they should be allowed to sell valid items. Anyhow, there's still nothing Blizzard can do, as if they tell eBay to filter hacked item auctions, people will just make the auctions look like they're selling valid items. I'd like to see the invalid auctions gone, but I just don't know of any technological solution that will work.

 

[Atlantean]

Thats what they get haha.

 

[paruhd0x]

Originally posted by: Vortex

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I remember them banning people a long time ago for using that chest hack.

I remember joining a game and this dude was running around popping all the chests open! I got some ,phat lewtz. Seems cool but it really did contribute to runining the game. They should just patch up all the hacks, look at EverQuest...there arent any hacks for that, just ShowEQ and I dont even know if that works any more. Wipe all the accounts and start fresh after that

I do hope they come out with a Diablo 3, though.

ShowEQ works, it will always work. Why? Because you cannot stop people from reading their own memory.

 

[wfbberzerker]

i hope my account still works (i never cheated)... theres always that chance that they toss out a few legit accounts along with the cheaters.

 

[McMadman]

I've seen people lose accounts in this banning, and I lost 90-95% of my stuff in the last one.

I don't trust blizzards "tracking" abilities (they proved that when they deleted "inactive" characters which deleted about 5 of mine that were on for a good half hour the day before)

Essentially the game is lost to cheaters, and they still aren't taking any sort of serious actions to stopping it, the ebay sales for hacked items are still abundant, the spammers advertising the websites for hacked items are still around/etc.

 

[habib89]

speaking of diablo, can anyone help me with my problem?

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=33&threadid=1072251