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niteReloaded
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Croatia5282 Posts
July 05 2011 22:42 GMT
#61
This is genius.

The guy is bound to do some more drophacking, only this time Blizzard will be able to monitor his account more closely and as it happens. If they banned him, they'd have one less specimen to examine.

Either that or they're just trolling him.
TheLOLas
Profile Joined May 2011
United States646 Posts
July 05 2011 22:42 GMT
#62
That would be amazing if blizzard gave him a negative bonus pool that was like 1,000,000. That way every time he played a match even if he won he would lose ladder points. Good on blizzard to shut this guy down.
BoxedLunch
Profile Joined January 2011
United States387 Posts
July 05 2011 22:43 GMT
#63
this is awesome. all the drop hackers in their own league, just for pieces of shit like them?

it's like SC2 purgatory.
In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they are not
Bobster
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany3075 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-05 22:45:00
July 05 2011 22:44 GMT
#64
On July 06 2011 07:42 Bloodyrock wrote:
what if those frop hackers meet each other on ladder LOL

Each of them has a couple losses among 300+ games played. Those must come from other drophackers. Quite hilarious if you think about it.

"Oh shi- it's you!"


On July 06 2011 07:43 BoxedLunch wrote:
this is awesome. all the drop hackers in their own league, just for pieces of shit like them?

it's like SC2 purgatory.

Not all of them, but some.
Chicane
Profile Joined November 2010
United States7875 Posts
July 05 2011 22:45 GMT
#65
On July 06 2011 07:42 TheLOLas wrote:
That would be amazing if blizzard gave him a negative bonus pool that was like 1,000,000. That way every time he played a match even if he won he would lose ladder points. Good on blizzard to shut this guy down.


Ya I think that would be awesome, and they can also only get matched up against other drop hackers.. so basically they waste a bunch of time to lose points regardless of if they use their drop hack first.
NoobSkills
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1600 Posts
July 05 2011 22:47 GMT
#66
On July 06 2011 06:46 A-p-p-l-e-s wrote:
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.


Blizzard can infer he drop hacks (and he does I'm not denying it), but when they ban accounts they use a program to factually know that he used that hack.
Hashmeister
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany238 Posts
July 05 2011 22:48 GMT
#67
I think it's pretty strange that they didnt ban him. There are more and more drop hackers and it's just so frustrating losing to that. I hope all the drophackers just get banned!!
bit.ly/hashmeister
KiF1rE
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States964 Posts
July 05 2011 22:49 GMT
#68
On July 06 2011 06:53 stafu wrote:
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.



probably they have never removed any one from the ladder whether they are banned or not... for the longest time they just let banned hackers sit where they were on the ladder, and there was a blue post saying something like, with bonus pool they will be passed up so meh... Maybe moving them to their own division was their solution, since maybe there is some technicality on removing someone from the ladder entirely =/
Shirolol
Profile Joined April 2010
England504 Posts
July 05 2011 22:50 GMT
#69
Wow, awesome job by blizz - can't wait to see what actually happens to them now. Hopefully they are just baiting them all to carry on hacking so they can monitor EXACTLY how it works and stop it!

And to be fair, they are probably dumb enough to continue. Very happy they are starting to show signs of action against hackers.
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Xss
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada53 Posts
July 05 2011 22:52 GMT
#70
There is still one at the top of my masters division (valerian kappa).
geno
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1404 Posts
July 05 2011 22:52 GMT
#71
This really is hilarious if Blizzard is tying them together so they end up only drophacking eachother. It does seem a bit out of character to do this instead of just a blanket ban, but if that is what they are doing I love it lol.
Sanguinarius
Profile Joined January 2010
United States3427 Posts
July 05 2011 22:53 GMT
#72
Interesting method of punishment to take.
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others -Heart of Darkness
Tegin
Profile Joined November 2010
United States840 Posts
July 05 2011 22:53 GMT
#73
Lol Blizzard messin with him. I'd prefer an all-out ban though!
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
sick_transit
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States195 Posts
July 05 2011 22:54 GMT
#74
Yea, they definitely didn't demote all DHers. I checked a couple of other profiles. In fact I'm not sure there's any DHers in that bronze division but the obvious GMers (xxSteinxx, LiquidHuk, RAPDAWG). Anyone recognize any other names?
War is a drug.
ForeverSleep
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada920 Posts
July 05 2011 22:55 GMT
#75
they should make their division accessible to see just like GM just do we can see them and laugh at them. Of course, unlike GM, we could also be able to add them to our friend lists and chat to them. Just like a real purgatory
"Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans" - John Lennon
Msr
Profile Joined March 2011
Korea (South)495 Posts
July 05 2011 22:55 GMT
#76
This is terrible news... they don't even tempban public hacks anymore(use to be 30 day ban on first warning and acc closed/reset). Assuming that account will ever be active to ladder it has to still have his gm ell/mmr, so even if he loses a game playing legit he will be in GM. If they reset him to a bronze league mmr/ell then blizzard just went against half the things they ban others for(losing games on purpose to lower ell).

Blizzard has never ever banned a private hacker without them using a public drophack, and there will be many private hacks out, so sadly the ladder will only get worse. Season 3 is going to be a joke unless they learn to do their jobs or hire ladder players to do their job for them.
Xolo
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada107 Posts
July 05 2011 22:57 GMT
#77
Blizzard pretty much isn't willing to ban people anymore.

Last time Blizzard did a mass banwave, maphackers received 3 day suspensions.

"Hack your way to #1 in the world? Well here's a slap on the wrist with an account rollback. Now go think about what you've done!"

If Blizzard bans hackers, then those hackers probably won't buy the expansion packs, which means less money for them. The money is more important than the integrity of the game.
Mookiee
Profile Joined June 2011
6 Posts
July 05 2011 22:58 GMT
#78
Simply. They want him to keep playing so they find out how does he do it
dbosworld
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States317 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-05 23:00:55
July 05 2011 23:00 GMT
#79
On July 06 2011 07:57 Xolo wrote:
Blizzard pretty much isn't willing to ban people anymore.

Last time Blizzard did a mass banwave, maphackers received 3 day suspensions.

"Hack your way to #1 in the world? Well here's a slap on the wrist with an account rollback. Now go think about what you've done!"

If Blizzard bans hackers, then those hackers probably won't buy the expansion packs, which means less money for them. The money is more important than the integrity of the game.


Reallly? If they banned them, they won't purchase expansions. I don't see the logic. They are aware of what they are doing, I don't think them getting banned will change their mind of whether they wish to purchase a copy or an expansion. Only reason I can think of is that they are limited in funds.
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BinxyBrown
Profile Joined December 2010
United States230 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-05 23:01:12
July 05 2011 23:00 GMT
#80
The number of people that would quit the game due to rampant hacking is MUCH HIGHER than the number of people hacking, I am sure that their policy is a little different in wow, especially in PVE hacking because its subscriber based, but to think they wouldn't ban hackers in SC2 is ridiculous.

I am sure that blizzard just had to move the hackers out of the divisions they had hacked into to before banning the account, especially since they otherwise would be taking up top slots.
Banelings are like Ice Climbers if they grab you... your dead.
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