1st place Gm drop hacker not banned but demoted?

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.

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.

On July 06 2011 06:52 Phayze wrote:

Wow awesome. Their accounts probably are banned?

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

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.

On July 06 2011 06:53 DreamChaser wrote:
they should just make all the hackers vs each other in that bronze league.

On July 06 2011 07:04 Emporio wrote:
Maybe they should do something like "secretly" change the password of drophacking accounts. If you forget your password or need it reset, don't you need to do something like mail a picture of your drivers license or something?

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

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

On July 06 2011 07:16 ectonym wrote:


I call shenanigans. I checked this division's members against 100% of the North American hackers, both confirmed and suspected, written the TL post here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=222975

...and None of the names there matched up. Is there another Hacker database you're checking against? Source?

On July 06 2011 06:57 R0YAL wrote:

Haha that'd be hilarious if the drop hackers could only ladder vs other drop hackers. I wish I could see the look on their faces if that was the case.

On July 06 2011 07:17 Azide wrote:


no he's right. IBJessica or w/e and Rapdawg also drop hackers as well as a few others im sure

On July 06 2011 07:19 zhurai wrote:

I vote to just make a new league.... the........erm

synthetic league
or
fools gold league

for the drop hackers.

:D?

On July 06 2011 07:25 Completley wrote:
ahaha it's totally blizz trolling him :D

Make it so that whenever he wins a game under 5 min he can't get points or MMR or something ;P

On July 06 2011 06:52 Iamyournoob wrote:
I believe they will let him suffer a bit before banning his account

On July 06 2011 07:16 ectonym wrote:


I call shenanigans. I checked this division's members against 100% of the North American hackers, both confirmed and suspected, written the TL post here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=222975

...and None of the names there matched up. Is there another Hacker database you're checking against? Source?

On July 06 2011 07:16 ectonym wrote:


I call shenanigans. I checked this division's members against 100% of the North American hackers, both confirmed and suspected, written the TL post here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=222975

...and None of the names there matched up. Is there another Hacker database you're checking against? Source?

On July 06 2011 07:42 Bloodyrock wrote:
what if those frop hackers meet each other on ladder LOL

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.

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.

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/



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.

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.

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.

From battle.net:

We are aware of a drop hack currently being used in StarCraft II and have banned a number of players for using it. Anyone found using drop hacks or other cheats to increase standing in the ladder or gain an unfair advantage in individual games will be banned. We take the integrity of online play on Battle.net very seriously and will take swift action to punish the use of any illegal cheats or hacks.

On July 06 2011 08:01 rasmuslorentzen wrote:

Link

I've also been reading on some of the hacker-forums, and some people there have been banned as well. Looks like Blizzard is caring nontheless. To bad many of them did only use the hack with their trail accounts.

On July 06 2011 08:01 Newtonz wrote:
Anyone know the name of the actual division? I'm sure that has some trolling involved with it as well.

On July 06 2011 08:00 BinxyBrown wrote:
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.

On July 06 2011 07:01 SDream wrote:
I doubt they aren't banned. Blizzard made them all bronze because it will be in their season 2 history forever that they failed. Banned accounts aren't deleted, they will stay there foreve, as bronzes =)

Zamara was a protoss preserver, a profession open only to those few protoss who have the ability to preserve the memories of all members of their species. She held an extremely dangerous secret.

On July 06 2011 08:14 Chargelot wrote:
The division is named after a Protoss preserver.



Go go conspiracy theorists!

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

On July 06 2011 08:04 itsben wrote:


I like how they said "swift actions"

On July 06 2011 08:45 Canucklehead wrote:
Who would win a game b/w 2 drophackers?

On July 06 2011 08:46 BroboCop wrote:

whoever drophacks first, no joke, thats why the #1 guy on ladder has 8 losses. $20 says his apm spamming the "drop hack key" was <50.

On July 06 2011 08:52 TheAwesomeTemplar wrote:

AMAZING. ^_^
Blizzard, you should host a hacker tournament to see who is the best hacker, and then ban the winner
On a serious note, at least they did something. What would be even more awesome is if it said "you have been demoted to bronze league!" after every game XD

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.

On July 06 2011 10:31 Jonoman92 wrote:
As funny as it may be, I'd much prefer the accounts fully banned and completely unusable. In this state they could still play in minor tourneys where a ban list might not be used before being sure all competitors are legitimate.

Additionally, I don't think they should be entitled to play UMS or use their copy of sc2 without purchasing a new one as a bit of a penalty for hacking.

On July 06 2011 06:52 Phayze wrote:

Wow awesome. Their accounts probably are banned?

On July 06 2011 08:16 neo_sporin wrote:


They should have named the division Hacker Mu, Lagmaster Alpha, DROPship Omega or some other witty name to say this is a hacker division

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

On July 06 2011 13:17 CeriseCherries wrote:
Blizzard needs to look for more troll punishments.

Forever finding a match, 3-2- players dropped for hackers. Losing points for a win and losing points for a loss.

Blizzard can have a field day having some fun: why ban when you can troll.

On July 06 2011 06:55 qqK wrote:
It's all about who has the fastest drophack now.

On July 06 2011 13:20 Voltus wrote:
My personal opinion is that this is the immediate response. Basically Blizzard move ppl on ladders by creating new divisions for people with similar MMR. So essentially all they had to do was to change all the hackers MMR to a similar level ( in this case it would be a minus number) and move them to the same division, then lock that division. ( isolates most of them). I imagine this would free up the GM leagues while the division lock is in place, and it gives them at least 2 weeks to work on a more permanent solution.

I personally stand for Blocking IP's of known hackers.
To people saying they wont do this due to revenue? you don't realize that having hackers in the game will do more damage to revenue than removing them?

how many people left games like counterstrike because of hacks?

On July 06 2011 06:53 DreamChaser wrote:
they should just make all the hackers vs each other in that bronze league.

On July 06 2011 14:24 Kokujin wrote:
pretty sure that the creation of this thread gives that hacker the 5 seconds of fame that made all that hacking worth it

On July 06 2011 15:24 Scriptix wrote:
My question is, do they keep the MMR? Cause they may be in bronze but if they keep the same MMR then they will still be playing GMs and stuff. Correct? I might be wrong.

On July 06 2011 14:39 Morfildur wrote:


Don't forget that removing accounts completely would mess up the match history of those who played against them. Removing a player is almost impossible, they can just lock the account.
Also, in this case they probably moved the drophackers only because they were in Grandmasters, which is used for blizzcon invites, and having drophackers there would mess up the statistics.

On July 06 2011 06:53 Calm wrote:


LOL

Well played Blizz. Sorry I doubted you.

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

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

On July 06 2011 16:12 tredogz wrote:
Why do this?? so brand new players in bronze can get drop hacked now??? real nice

On July 06 2011 16:52 Pred8oar wrote:
Nice to see that happen but i think the damage has already been done

On July 06 2011 06:49 quRax wrote:
Blizzard is just trolling him. If he tries to get promoted he will probably get banned or something

On July 06 2011 06:54 Emporio wrote:



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.

On July 06 2011 13:20 Voltus wrote:
My personal opinion is that this is the immediate response. Basically Blizzard move ppl on ladders by creating new divisions for people with similar MMR. So essentially all they had to do was to change all the hackers MMR to a similar level ( in this case it would be a minus number) and move them to the same division, then lock that division. ( isolates most of them). I imagine this would free up the GM leagues while the division lock is in place, and it gives them at least 2 weeks to work on a more permanent solution.

I personally stand for Blocking IP's of known hackers.
To people saying they wont do this due to revenue? you don't realize that having hackers in the game will do more damage to revenue than removing them?

how many people left games like counterstrike because of hacks?

On July 06 2011 22:17 GreEny K wrote:
If he didn't hack to get into GM then he should be out of bronze in a couple games.

On July 06 2011 22:18 Firesilver wrote:


Depends, they may have made it so he can't get out of bronze.

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

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

On July 06 2011 23:04 GreEny K wrote:


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

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

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

On July 07 2011 00:58 Friday_ger wrote:


That makes it even better :D

On July 07 2011 03:23 kaisertoss wrote:
that ladder is full of drop hackers. they all have mad win streaks and are in bronze, makes no sense, these fools are drop hacking, all of them, rapdawg was gm also, hes in the bronze ladder now

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

On July 07 2011 03:28 Alejandrisha wrote:


Hopefully blizz tanked their mmr's as well so GM doesn't get screwed up for next season

On July 07 2011 04:26 NemesysTV wrote:
HuK is in that division :O
+ Show Spoiler +

On July 06 2011 06:52 Saicam wrote:
lol blizz ftw!! troll those fuckin cunts

On July 07 2011 04:31 EliteReplay wrote:
NrGMUTE drop hack me lol, being part of a good Team or they were good and doing this.
here is the replay: NrGMUTE HACK

On July 07 2011 06:47 emc wrote:



you were dropped when you were both on two base, drop hackers don't wait 10 minutes into the game to finally call it quits and get the win, they do it as soon as you get in the game. NrG is a pretty well known clan I'm betting you just got dropped it happens to me sometimes.

On July 07 2011 06:47 emc wrote:



you were dropped when you were both on two base, drop hackers don't wait 10 minutes into the game to finally call it quits and get the win, they do it as soon as you get in the game. NrG is a pretty well known clan I'm betting you just got dropped it happens to me sometimes.