Blizzard’s Epic Banhammer Dishes Out Damage to 350,000 Cheaters
And Blizzard once again whips out the epic ban hammer, effectively blocking StarCrack StarCraft and Diablo 2 access to over 350,000 cheaters.
An official post on the Battle.net website explains the details of the bans. Here’s a bit:
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 aging online service will be upgraded before StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3 are launched sometime next year. Blizzard is also working on an unannounced next-gen MMORPG.