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Gnoetall
Profile Joined September 2010
United States6 Posts
October 01 2010 11:55 GMT
#101
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/716501/1/Vnrock/

Are they keeping profiles? This guy was a well known map hacker.
dakalro
Profile Joined September 2010
Romania525 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-01 12:03:05
October 01 2010 11:55 GMT
#102
There is a very good reason why bans come after large increments of time. Pretty much a wait between hack discovery and announcement that said hack was discovered so it slows down hack development also. If you think you can't be found for 3 months you don't have that big of an incentive to get a new/better version of it. But if you'd immediately know you were found you'd just start working again.

Plus they need very solid evidence that the player is hacking, most hacking reports are probably not accurate at all. As for the ones claiming to be banned unfairly, they are either lying or can get Blizzard to recheck their stories but they will never ever tell you why you got banned, they don't have to and you agreed to it if you ever got past the log in screen of the game.

I think they also started banning people for using trainers in SP. Or some other SP cheats that rely on changing game memory.

Plus verbal abuse, but that should be just a suspension. In wow it's usually 3+ suspensions for insulting and being reported to get permanent ban.

None of these seem over the top, it is a social game after all, rules do apply and hope people start understanding that.
DND_Enkil
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden598 Posts
October 01 2010 12:00 GMT
#103
Good job Blizz.
"If you write about a sewing needle there is always some one-eyed bastard that gets offended" - Fritiof The Pirate Nilsson
papaz
Profile Joined December 2009
Sweden4149 Posts
October 01 2010 12:11 GMT
#104
Anyone know if anyone using customized hotkeys got banned for that reason (i haven't been banned but using still customized hotkeys) ?
Crt
Profile Joined November 2009
247 Posts
October 01 2010 12:14 GMT
#105
i once tried to go thru a list of tens of thousand IPs to ban inactive, inappropriate, abusive accounts. Thought it was easy, but it was an impossible task once you consider innocent accounts. What ended up was you try to lower your threshold to avoid killing innocent people. So 5000 or whatever the number is ... is very very little compared to the amount of abusive accounts.

Rule of 3 strikes is the best.
Badjas
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Netherlands2038 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-01 12:19:39
October 01 2010 12:18 GMT
#106
To those who say 'only 5000 banned'. Blizzard doesn't have a temp-ban option like there is on TL (edit: reference missing, but you don't read about such a thing in the media). You see plenty of hackers but you can't see the behavior of those hackers over a longer time. Maybe Blizzard only has banned those who were most malicious or persistent in their hacking. These bans serve as a warning for others. I'm for second chances. But I'll add that I hope to see more (necessary) bans in a couple of months.
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Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-01 12:20:59
October 01 2010 12:20 GMT
#107
On one hand Blizzard want to make their game hacker free.

On the other hand, they don't want to permaban a whole bnet account just for using one racial slur, because then they'd lose customers (i.e. their teen WoW crowd which is spilling over into SC2)

So the 5000 seems like a reasonable number.
FuryX
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia495 Posts
October 01 2010 12:21 GMT
#108
Seems like some people decided to use thirty party things other than maphacks.

People need to remember that Blizzard clearly states any modification will give them power to terminate your account/access.

This is why awhile back when someone invented the apm hook to display apm i said it is probably something people should avoid using.

And it looks like some people used trainers to get achievement points in brutal...

Single Player maybe single..but it is still connected to b.net.
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
October 01 2010 12:34 GMT
#109
Are there bans for:

- repalcing zerg Advisor voice to Overmind
- replacing zerg music and music other races
- replacing loading screen
- etc

??
DonKey_
Profile Joined May 2010
Liechtenstein1356 Posts
October 01 2010 12:37 GMT
#110
yeeee smack dem hackas down
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
Kobepeng
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia50 Posts
October 01 2010 12:39 GMT
#111
wd blizzard!
Crt
Profile Joined November 2009
247 Posts
October 01 2010 12:40 GMT
#112
it goes something like: SC2 reports to Blizzard what programs/ip connections you have running concurrently with SC2, so yes.
Zocat
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany2229 Posts
October 01 2010 12:58 GMT
#113
On October 01 2010 21:18 Badjas wrote:
To those who say 'only 5000 banned'. Blizzard doesn't have a temp-ban option like there is on TL (edit: reference missing, but you don't read about such a thing in the media).


It's called "Account suspensions" and Blizzard has those.
Blizzard even says: "including suspensions and bans" - therefore not even 5000 perma bans.
Alwayzbboy
Profile Joined September 2010
Malaysia11 Posts
October 01 2010 13:05 GMT
#114
300k!
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Onlinejaguar
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia2823 Posts
October 01 2010 13:05 GMT
#115
good riddance to hackers.
Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
October 01 2010 13:09 GMT
#116
why isnt there a ban-list released?
"Protoss is a joke" Liquid`Jinro Okt.1. 2011
shora
Profile Joined September 2010
15 Posts
October 01 2010 13:11 GMT
#117
On October 01 2010 21:34 Existor wrote:
Are there bans for:

- repalcing zerg Advisor voice to Overmind
- replacing zerg music and music other races
- replacing loading screen
- etc

??


i think so, blizzard often stated that they will ban for any modification of the client
Flaccid
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
8836 Posts
October 01 2010 13:14 GMT
#118
I'm pretty naive - I had no idea so many people were already hacking in SC2. Could someone please enlighten me as to what's out there?
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Toolshed
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
337 Posts
October 01 2010 13:15 GMT
#119
On October 01 2010 20:55 Gnoetall wrote:
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/716501/1/Vnrock/

Are they keeping profiles? This guy was a well known map hacker.


I've read somewhere that you can test whether a person you reported is banned or not by adding them to you friends list. So if you get something like "user does not exist" than that person is most likely banned.

Can somebody confirm this?
Alwayzbboy
Profile Joined September 2010
Malaysia11 Posts
October 01 2010 13:16 GMT
#120
On October 01 2010 11:41 ComusLoM wrote:
Hell, it's about time.

What a conclusion
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