If Blizzard has also adjusted their MMR to like -5000 or so, forcing them to only play each other for eternity, this is the GREATEST troll ever, surpassing even Uszat.

Qwix

531 Posts

July 06 2011 14:13 GMT

#223

Banned accounts are still excisting accounts, they do show up in ladders and whatnot however the ability to logon has been removed. I believe the account is actually banned but the profile still simply excists, this is atleast how they take care of their WoW bans, assuming they do a similar approach to their SC2 accounts.

evsky

United Kingdom61 Posts

July 06 2011 14:34 GMT

#224

The ladder is locked though right? So noone can be promoted at the moment.

Clbull

United Kingdom1439 Posts

July 06 2011 14:35 GMT

#225

On July 06 2011 06:50 Secret05 wrote:
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

Yeah, that's really going to work.

40 more drophacked games and they will soar to Grandmaster League again.

On July 06 2011 23:34 evsky wrote:
The ladder is locked though right? So noone can be promoted at the moment.

I still have serious doubts that the ladder lock will entirely work. Just because they can't soar to GM now doesn't mean they can't disrupt GM play by playing against GM players?

Juddas

768 Posts

July 06 2011 14:38 GMT

#226

great now I have to face his drophacking ways

Ashes

United States362 Posts

July 06 2011 14:52 GMT

#227

Blizzard should have all the drop hackers in one division and when they search for matches, they should only get another drop hacker of that same division.. haha would be fun :D

Provocateur

Sweden1665 Posts

July 06 2011 14:57 GMT

#228

On July 06 2011 23:04 GreEny K wrote:

Show nested quote +

Ya, I didn't think of that... Sucks for him lol.

EDIT: So can he enter bronze tournaments now? For coaching and money?

In that case a tournament admin will most likely deal with him.

Edit: Btw, are there even bronze only tournaments for money? :S

lurked

Canada918 Posts

July 06 2011 15:03 GMT

#229

Well, now that the ladder is locked, he'll end up as Bronze for this ladder season, so it'll appear on his account forever...

And I'd also bet that they can ban someone from playing without him disappearing from ladder...

Anyway, it's pretty funny to me.

japro

172 Posts

July 06 2011 15:15 GMT

#230

I would be really funny if blizzard just set the MMR of all the cheaters to some unreasonably low value so they could only be paired against each other...

Naeroon

Canada166 Posts

July 06 2011 15:21 GMT

#231

I love how everybody has repeated what everyone else has said for the past ~10 pages.

But seriously this is pretty lols. They probably are banned, but either way, nuking 'em back to the bottom of bronze sure defeated anything they were trying to gain by being in GM league.

I mean think about it, the ladder was close to being locked, maybe there was the possibility that the huge surge in hackers so close to the end of the ladder was because losers out there wanted to completely ruin the state of the Season 2 Ladder, hopefully causing it to be locked in a really shitty state, ie 5 known hackers in the GM league :/

Friday_ger

67 Posts

July 06 2011 15:58 GMT

#232

On July 06 2011 06:56 NoobSh1t wrote:
Remember that the ladder is locked as of today

That makes it even better :D

Arlequin

Canada41 Posts

July 06 2011 16:04 GMT

#233

When blizzard previously banned account they were never
removed from the ladder ranking as previously said ! So these account
are banned he you look in the account history no recent game played!
+ they demoted them to bronze so they dont stay in the gm league forever

Mr.Kost

United States8 Posts

July 06 2011 16:20 GMT

#234

Watch out sooner or later he will be on the Blizzard staff so be nice.

Noxie

United States2227 Posts

July 06 2011 16:26 GMT

#235

Forever bronze.

Thx blizz

Trizz

Netherlands1323 Posts

July 06 2011 16:31 GMT

#236

I don't get why people do this, it's a lot of money down the drain by getting banned.
Question, with the ladder lock is it also impossible to get demoted opposed to promoted?

Warpath

Canada1242 Posts

July 06 2011 16:39 GMT

#237

It doesn't even matter. The accounts are banned it's just standard Blizzard to not entirely delete an account for whatever purpose. The hackers can't play another game on the account and they're locked in at some mysterious bronze league.

MileyCyrus

United States285 Posts

July 06 2011 16:49 GMT

#238

i would love to see them locked in bronze forever