Hey i was looking through the gm league and saw that the 1st place drop hacker xxTheStienxx was no longer there and select was once again 1st place. I was happy and thought he got banned but someone linked me his profile and said he was not banned but demoted to bronze... it is unlike blizzard to do something like this
thoughts?
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1993094/1/xxTheSteinxx/

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as you can see they both have the same name and same amount of wins which is 221. He was once in grandmaster and now in bronze unless theres a guy with the same amount of wins + same name but is in bronze and same icon... which is highly unlikely.

Ponyo

United States1231 Posts

July 05 2011 21:48 GMT

Woah apples to apples looks like you have stumbled upon some interesting stuff. That's really wierd. You sure its the same dude? like Character code and stuff?

quRax

Korea (South)264 Posts

July 05 2011 21:49 GMT

Blizzard is just trolling him. If he tries to get promoted he will probably get banned or something

Secret05

United States342 Posts

July 05 2011 21:50 GMT

maybe they haven't figured out exactly how to handle the specific hack he's using so for the time being they just demoted him to bronze

Bagi

Germany6799 Posts

July 05 2011 21:50 GMT

Might be Blizzard is investigating his case more closely, to make absolutely sure he's hacking and maybe how it works?

The demotion makes it so that there isn't a blatant hacker in the GM at least.

Calm

Canada380 Posts

July 05 2011 21:51 GMT

That is just about the strangest thing I've heard today... I would really like to know the logic behind this. He could easily just drop-hack his way out of bronze again... I guess it would likely have come with a stern warning, but he should have been banned PERIOD. Not a fan of second chances.

The only thing I could see coming from this is him buying a new account so he doesn't have to ladder out of bronze? So Blizzard makes $60? Pure speculation.

freddievercetti

224 Posts

July 05 2011 21:51 GMT

Yeah its the same dude. He had about that much wins in those leagues.

Ryzu

United States369 Posts

July 05 2011 21:51 GMT

Actually, if you look closely, a lot of the other reported drop-hackers are in that same Bronze division!

laweinhander

United States7 Posts

July 05 2011 21:52 GMT

I checked out his profile, all his wins (that I looked at) were in under 2 minutes. There is no way he was not cheating in some way.

Iamyournoob

Germany595 Posts

July 05 2011 21:52 GMT

#10

I believe they will let him suffer a bit before banning his account

Saicam

262 Posts

July 05 2011 21:52 GMT

#11

lol blizz ftw!! troll those fuckin cunts

KiLL_ORdeR

United States1518 Posts

July 05 2011 21:52 GMT

#12

I think it's unlikely that it is the same player. If you look at the win to point ratio he has 221 wins with 1300 something points, which i believe translates to about 50% winrate. That being said, he's only getting +5 points for a win and -20 for a loss, so I dunno what the deal is.

Phayze

Canada2029 Posts

July 05 2011 21:52 GMT

#13

On July 06 2011 06:51 Ryzu wrote:
Actually, if you look closely, all of the reported drop-hackers are in that same Bronze division!

Blizz trolling.

Wow awesome. Their accounts probably are banned?

stafu

Australia1196 Posts

July 05 2011 21:53 GMT

#14

Maybe his account is banned, he just can't be removed from the ladder system until ladder lock is over, and hence moved to bronze?

Until he actually plays another game, I'd just assume he is banned.

Calm

Canada380 Posts

July 05 2011 21:53 GMT

#15

On July 06 2011 06:51 Ryzu wrote:
Actually, if you look closely, all of the reported drop-hackers are in that same Bronze division!

Blizz trolling.

LOL

Well played Blizz. Sorry I doubted you.

DreamChaser

1649 Posts

July 05 2011 21:53 GMT

#16

they should just make all the hackers vs each other in that bronze league.

Ryzu

United States369 Posts

July 05 2011 21:53 GMT

#17

On July 06 2011 06:52 Phayze wrote:

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Wow awesome. Their accounts probably are banned?

One can hope. Blizz is up to something there anyway.

Bandino

United States342 Posts

July 05 2011 21:54 GMT

#18

Actually, if you look closely, all of the reported drop-hackers are in that same Bronze division! Blizz trolling.

So that's what they were up to, well played.

figq

12519 Posts

July 05 2011 21:54 GMT

#19

Maybe they don't want to punish the guy with complete ban and invalid ID, so they just demote him to bronze; it could be like a probation period. /edit: well, applies to the rest too

Emporio

United States3069 Posts

July 05 2011 21:54 GMT

#20

On July 06 2011 06:51 Ryzu wrote:
Actually, if you look closely, all of the reported drop-hackers are in that same Bronze division!

Blizz trolling.

What would be really trolling is if they were given mmr allow that they can only play each other and their mmr is so low that it's nearly impossible to play enough games to raise their mmr to play real people.