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[SC2 News] Blizzard bans ~5000 players for hacking - Page 7

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SoL[9]
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Portugal1370 Posts
October 01 2010 13:19 GMT
#121
On October 01 2010 22:14 Flaccid wrote:
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?


Maphack, drophack, auto spells, warp of immortals, hide that the player look for fog of war and many other things that i dont remember.

Gogog Blizzard there is more to catch!
I Can Fly...
meatface
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2 Posts
October 01 2010 13:21 GMT
#122
If there is one really, really good reason for blizzard to require a battle.net connection, this is it. gg blizz!
GGTeMpLaR
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States7226 Posts
October 01 2010 13:24 GMT
#123
well done blizzard!
IronWolf
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
South Africa315 Posts
October 01 2010 13:24 GMT
#124
I say name and shame!
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-01 13:27:25
October 01 2010 13:26 GMT
#125
I don't know how many of you can get super excited about 5,000 players getting temporary suspensions. You do realize this will have no effect, right?

This is nothing more than a publicity stunt.

'Hi folks, we're doing something about those hackers for you. We're on the job.'

5,000 of 3,000,000 accounts is around 0.002 percent. ._.

This is little reason for applause.
acceLL
Profile Joined September 2010
46 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-01 13:38:19
October 01 2010 13:36 GMT
#126
First of all, they're permanent bans. 60 dollars down the drain.



5,000 of 3,000,000 accounts is around 0.002 percent. ._.


Second of all, how is that even relevant? There aren't THREE MILLION hackers in SC2. There's probably more than 5k, but banning hackers can never be a bad thing. Getting rid of cheaters is a publicity stunt now, wow. People will find any excuse to hate Blizzard.
brocoli
Profile Joined February 2010
Brazil264 Posts
October 01 2010 13:37 GMT
#127
On October 01 2010 22:26 StarStruck wrote:
I don't know how many of you can get super excited about 5,000 players getting temporary suspensions. You do realize this will have no effect, right?

This is nothing more than a publicity stunt.

'Hi folks, we're doing something about those hackers for you. We're on the job.'

5,000 of 3,000,000 accounts is around 0.002 percent. ._.

This is little reason for applause.


5,000 of 3,000,000 is 0.2%, not 0.002%.
seems like a good number to start from for me.
Achilles
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada385 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-01 13:39:23
October 01 2010 13:39 GMT
#128
On October 01 2010 22:26 StarStruck wrote:
I don't know how many of you can get super excited about 5,000 players getting temporary suspensions. You do realize this will have no effect, right?

This is nothing more than a publicity stunt.

'Hi folks, we're doing something about those hackers for you. We're on the job.'

5,000 of 3,000,000 accounts is around 0.002 percent. ._.

This is little reason for applause.


So you're saying they should ban 3million people? every player?
[rS]Gluske // http://www.rsgaming.com // Troku[tC]
Badjas
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Netherlands2038 Posts
October 01 2010 13:45 GMT
#129
On October 01 2010 21:58 Zocat wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

Thanks for the correction, I read over that. Guess it's a waiting game to see if it has any effects on hackers and how common they are.
I <3 the internet, I <3 you
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
October 01 2010 14:05 GMT
#130
Good to hear but I'm surprised it's only 5k.
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
MangoTango
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States3670 Posts
October 01 2010 14:09 GMT
#131
How many of these overlap with our wall of shame hacker thread?
"One fish, two fish, red fish, BLUE TANK!" - Artosis
onmach
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1241 Posts
October 01 2010 14:09 GMT
#132
I'm pretty sure they are not banning based on hack reports folks. More likely they just downloaded two or three examples of common hacks, programmed warden to look for them, then banned everyone in their logs who came up positive since the day they started up warden (which was like a few weeks ago I believe). That's about the best we can hope for unless they allow us to manage our own ladders someday.
Ancient.eu
Profile Joined July 2010
Romania621 Posts
October 01 2010 14:12 GMT
#133
That's a lot of bans !
FaCE_1
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada6184 Posts
October 01 2010 14:14 GMT
#134
they could only do: Sort player by single mission achievement point -> ban all 1600
n_n
peachsncream
Profile Joined April 2010
United States289 Posts
October 01 2010 14:17 GMT
#135
I highly doubt they banned 5,000. The last time they banned people they overstated it by 100x. (300,000). Good news though
I Micro I Micro - PLZLEAVEDUCK
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-01 14:23:24
October 01 2010 14:19 GMT
#136
On October 01 2010 12:10 Delrake wrote:
They most likely only banned people who were using drop hacks and just suspended the map hackers for a few days

But to add I'm shocked its only 5k, I would think at least 100k

100k is a lot of people. Given that most of the players don't care for hacking and a good portion are casual and don't even really think about it, only a small percentage of the population ever considers it...

Hackers:
-Balls out newbies who couldn't play on a reasonable level to save their life. Most of them just live with it - some of them cheat and are still pretty mediocre. If they were truly cool they would be script kiddies and they would crash low-bandwidth websites.
-People with "reasonable" skills who want people to think they're better than they really are and manage to convince themselves that it is the case.
-RICH's evil twin brother which provides others with a desktop icon which you can double click and then you're instantly blessed with a fancy "hacker" title.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
TestSubject893
Profile Joined September 2009
United States774 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-01 14:22:12
October 01 2010 14:21 GMT
#137
On October 01 2010 22:26 StarStruck wrote:
5,000 of 3,000,000 accounts is around 0.002 percent. ._.


5,000 out of 3,000,000 is about 0.2% not 0.002%.

edit: Someone beat me to it. Sorry.
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-01 14:23:40
October 01 2010 14:22 GMT
#138
My bad 0.2. Didn't move the decimal over.

Achilles don't put words in my mouth. 5,000 out of 3,000,000 players caught? I think that is a gross understatement and even then that's not even a slap on the wrist.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
October 01 2010 14:23 GMT
#139
0.166666666 yo!
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
shieldbreak
Profile Joined February 2010
United States406 Posts
October 01 2010 14:24 GMT
#140
'bout time.
Many a sleepless nights were spent doing absolutely nothing.
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