EPTnot because of the server merge between TW server and KR server,
but because of the account ban just occurred hours ago.
Lots of people has been baned by Blizzard,(hundreds or more)
but there has been a lot people saying that they'd never use any hack programs or any add-ins.
"I just only play Bejeweled in my whole starcraft career, and I still got banned!" said ventxyz one of the player that has been banned.
People had been telephoning BlizzardTW for information and help, but in vain.
Now some people are shouting out to gather up and ask the Consumer Protection Commission for help.
There are some that suspected an error had happened to the server while moving the data from TW server to KR server. But everything now is unclear.
We wish the best for the people who had been misbanned, and ashame those who use illegal add-ons.
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Update:
The people who got banned, received a letter from Blizzard, of course,
But the interesting thing is that the Sender of the E-mail is not "Blizzard-Starcraft" but "Blizzard-World of Warcraft" and it is not written in Chinese or English either, it is written in Korean which most people can't understand.
This news is from Bahamut, the largest gaming forum in Taiwan.
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Update:
On July 13 2011 15:43 KaienFEMC wrote:
I just heard more stories from the Taiwanese forums.
Some guy received a letter from Blizzard saying that their NA account is banned, but he does not have an NA account to begin with.
Some people had their entire account "deleted", as in they could not even log on to the battle.net webpage. It is like the account did not exist at all. (If you were banned, you can still log on and your status will become "frozen").
If the above stories were true, I think it is most likely that Blizzard had a database error. I guess we can only wait and see LOL
I just heard more stories from the Taiwanese forums.
Some guy received a letter from Blizzard saying that their NA account is banned, but he does not have an NA account to begin with.
Some people had their entire account "deleted", as in they could not even log on to the battle.net webpage. It is like the account did not exist at all. (If you were banned, you can still log on and your status will become "frozen").
If the above stories were true, I think it is most likely that Blizzard had a database error. I guess we can only wait and see LOL
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Update:
Now there are people recording stats of how many players been banned, and how many are not.
this one is made by Joeman, a commentator in Taiwan:
http://goo.gl/2oKWi
Red is banned, Blue is safe not banned.
This document updates every 5 minutes.
Now is like 39.36% of people has been banned...
There is a poll being held in Taiwan, because of so many people being banned,
Currently 714 people has answered the poll,
281 got banned, 39.36% of total
463 uses RC, 64.85% of total
For those who got banned:
253 are using RC, 90.04% of those being banned
For those who use RC:
253 are banned, 54.64% of those using RC.
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Update:
This is silly,
someone got banned and opened the mail sent by Blizzard,
and this what he saw:
http://i.imgur.com/8UUlE.jpg
Battle.net Account: JEFF*****@yahoo.com.tw
Player ID:
Punishment: Banned Forever
Reason: Third party Program
1. Look at below, his account is a*********@hotmail.com,
JEFF*****@yahoo.com.tw is not his account.
2. The Player ID is blank.
3. The owner of this Email said he didn't use any third party programs.
This is getting hilarious.
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Update:
Another screen shot by the same user:
http://i.imgur.com/zqXbX.jpg
Origination: In game activity
Type of ban: Violation of User treaty
Ban end date: 2011/7/16
Reason of ban: NON
Being banned for no reason.....
Another guy with the same result:
http://i.imgur.com/ib8h2.jpg
Another guy in NA server, this is in English:
http://i.imgur.com/0J31r.jpg
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Update:
Seems like this got something to do with Radicall....
Also see this topic
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=243511
And this topic:
http://no.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/io16x/anyone_else_just_get_banned_for_hacking/
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Update:
Breaking NEWS!!
People in Taiwan just got their Accounts back!! :D
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Update:
A letter from Blizzard:
Greetings,
Recently, a StarCraft II account under your Battle.net account was actioned
for potential violations of our Terms of Use. Upon further review of the
action taken upon this account, we reversed the action previously applied.
Reason for Action: Use of 3rd Party Programs
Previous Account Action: Closure
New Account action: Warning
Please note that while the action has been overturned, we still urge users to
be cautious when utilizing any sort of 3rd party program that may interact
with StarCraft II. Any modification of the executable or the way it runs is
in direct violation of the Battle.net Terms of Use.
In the end, we want Battle.net to be a fun and safe environment for all
players. It is to this end that we enforce our Battle.net Terms of Use and
In-Game Policies (http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/SC2policies
