Finally Blizzard makes efforts against Warcraft 3 cheating

[Reel]

In keeping with our aggressive stance against hacks and cheats, we have permanently disabled 1,000 CD keys from ladder play on Battle.net, resulting in the permanent closure of approximately 2,000 accounts that were tied to those CD-Keys. We have also permanently closed 27,000 additional accounts and disabled 16,000 CD keys from ladder play for one month. These accounts were determined to have used a hack or cheat program while playing Warcraft III on Battle.net. In the case of the CD keys that were banned, at least one account tied to each CD key was identified as having used such a program while playing on Battle.net.
We continue to monitor the Warcraft III realms for malicious players. Please note: repeat offenders risk having their CD keys disabled, which results in permanent removal from Battle.net for their copies of Warcraft III. We regret having to employ these extreme measures; however, certain unscrupulous players have impaired the game play of the Warcraft III community as a whole, and severe action continues to be warranted and required.

This was posted on Friday. It is good to see they actually read all those emails that we send to them. I personally have seen too many map hackers and was growing tired of playing against cheaters.

 

[Zugzwang152]

hope it never reaches CS proportions.

 

[MadRat]

CS and Q!!! alike.

 

[josphII]

its nice to see that they are doing this but too bad war3 blows

 

[MacBaine]

Yet they've never touched Starcraft... which is still an excellent game.

 

[roncarter]

I hate hackers.. !!!

 

[Anubis]

this is good. i hate people that hack

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: MacBaine
Yet they've never touched Starcraft... which is still an excellent game.

Still My favorite game of all time. It's that warm feeling you get when you trounce over someone with a map hack and you know they saw everything you did.


It's even funnier when they forget to put on team chat.

 

[Orsorum]

Finally, life has meaning! I mean, it's not like our economy is in a recession, we're going to war, etc etc... now we can play a video game online without cheaters!

 

[her209]

They have a hack for everything these days.