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There has been some madness in Taiwan right now,
not 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
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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
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Uh oh, I hope this gets solved soon, getting banned for no reason really sucks. (Happened to me on WoW), took weeks for me to get my account back but I quit anyways.
Reading the thread title at first made me imagine a huge crowd of people running around Taiwan buying SC2 games to get onto the KR server. 
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Blizzard's only hurting themselves, so I hope these TW players get their accounts back.
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Sounds unfortunate. I'd like to know why there even was a mixup..
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Sad. And I thought they were lucky they got merged with KR. I hope this gets resolved asap.
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Chaos is probably not the right word. "Chaos in Libya" would be appropriate
I'm sure this is just a glitch from the server merger.
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Who buys starcraft only to play starjeweled?
I think there's more going on than just some mistakes. I could be wrong here though.
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Unfortunate, but I'm sure Blizzard will do something especially if it actually affected more than one person xD
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Awww that's so sad to hear.
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I though Blizzard got some mis-ban on NA as well. There are several people complaint that they got ban cos their team mate in random 4v4 use drop hack.
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I would like a legitimant source before I check anything.
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When I saw the title I thought a natural disaster or something
Best of luck to all the non-hackers getting their accounts back.
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I hope things get cleared up on Taiwan, that really sucks. :/
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On July 13 2011 13:34 Emporio wrote:
Who buys starcraft only to play starjeweled?
I think there's more going on than just some mistakes. I could be wrong here though.
He says he also sometimes OB++ other players' play, and sometimes plays other custom games, but that is it.
I didn't get banned, so at first I was suspecting that they are just trying to get some ruth,
but there are SO many people complaining this matter that I can't think of that as a case anymore.
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On July 13 2011 13:35 FreezerJumps wrote:
Source?
The source is PTT, the biggest forum in Taiwan.
Well, in accurate it is a BBS not a forum, although BBS is a very old technique, but it somehow became the biggest community in Taiwan.
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The typical response is they did nothing and that's never the whole story.
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Well, what I heard was that some progamers from TeSL (Taiwan Pro-League) also had their account banned. Those accounts apparently were rarely used and mostly only used during televised matches.
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"Possible ban bug glitch" or something, chaos is a bit drastic. Chances are the persons are not telling the truth.
Any lets not forget being banned doesn't just happen for map hacking or drop hacking or hacking to effect your performance. MPQ editing = hacking according to blizz ToS. If you change your lame background to a more better one? Yeah you can get banned.
now "chaos" happening? it's probably just a very small vocal minority, they just happen to sound louder due to the fact that there is negative connotation involved.
also the servers merge in 13 days, i know with time difference that'd be 12 days for Taiwan, but that still isn't today >.> it is entirely possible blizzard made a mistake, but lets check the facts first
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That sucks for all the Taiwan players i am sure they are gonna lose a lot of players that got banned when they resolve the issue
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Wow, that's got to suck..
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On July 13 2011 13:47 steamrice wrote:
The typical response is they did nothing and that's never the whole story.
Yeah, I think that too.
Personally, I think there must be something going on with those accounts,
because I did nothing to my account, not even using mouse macros, and I didn't got banned.
So I think they maybe did something to their account, not cheating, but something that has been detected as a hack, but they don't even realize that is a hack.
Maybe like changing MPQs or interface or something, I don't know.
It is a mystery right now 
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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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I get the feeling that it has to do with some sort of program a lot of TW players use. Either a chat program, music program, something like that. When Sen streams, I noticed he had some kinda music player that seemed easy to interact with while playing SC2, so that may be a hint of TW programs being really good at integrating themselves with other software. If that is the case, and something did a particularly good job at it, it is conceivable that such a program may be detected by Warden and seen as a hack.
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On July 13 2011 14:16 AlphaWing wrote:
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.
LOL.
Now this has to be a fuckup.
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On July 13 2011 14:17 Mohdoo wrote:
I get the feeling that it has to do with some sort of program a lot of TW players use. Either a chat program, music program, something like that. When Sen streams, I noticed he had some kinda music player that seemed easy to interact with while playing SC2, so that may be a hint of TW programs being really good at integrating themselves with other software. If that is the case, and something did a particularly good job at it, it is conceivable that such a program may be detected by Warden and seen as a hack.
no.....just no. from the reports it seems like a mistake on the part of Blizz.
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On July 13 2011 14:17 Mohdoo wrote:
I get the feeling that it has to do with some sort of program a lot of TW players use. Either a chat program, music program, something like that. When Sen streams, I noticed he had some kinda music player that seemed easy to interact with while playing SC2, so that may be a hint of TW programs being really good at integrating themselves with other software. If that is the case, and something did a particularly good job at it, it is conceivable that such a program may be detected by Warden and seen as a hack.
I wouldnt be suprised if this is the case. I remember on WC3 I had a program which allowed me to do things such as go to the next song, pick a song etc whilst in game by typing into the chat (i.e. dont need to alt tab and stuff). Someone is going to tell me technically such a program is considered hacking.
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I heard several cases from my friends, since we are a Taiwanese clan who play on both NA and TW servers. Two of our clan members had their account banned in TW server, and one of the guy hasn't really been active at all for the past 2 months.
There are two more cases that seemed interesting.
One had added a 7-days trial TW-SC2 serial to his NA-SC2 account half an year ago. One added a full TW-SC2 liscense to his NA-SC2 account couple months ago. Both of them had their NA-SC2 account banned. The first guy of course can not check his TW-SC2 status since it was only a 7-day trial. The second guy however, can still log on to TW-SC2 with the account. No 3rd party program was used to log on to B.net. They both downloaded and installed TW-SC2 client in a separate folder.
Is there anymore people who bounded more than two accounts from different regions to one e-mail address and got hit by the ban hammer??
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It's total madness in Taiwan right now
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Dang my home country
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Maybe it's people editing MPQs for new backgrounds or music or whatever. Maybe a few legit hackers, but not if it is a lot of people.
So are you saying that a mass number of accounts got banned? It's confusing from the post, i'm guessing that english isn't your first language which is fine, but exactly how many people are we talking? if it's a few 10's or 100's then I don't think it's a big deal, other than sucking for the people who got banned obviously. But if it is like 1000's that's a much bigger deal. Also, were these bans simultaneous? Or have they been happening over the course of a few days?
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I'm sure it's just a mistake and hope it'll just be a blip in the road. In general I like to whine about Blizzard taking too long rather than too short a time to do things so I recommend patience, I'm sure Blizz will fix it up
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On July 13 2011 14:38 KiLL_ORdeR wrote:
Maybe it's people editing MPQs for new backgrounds or music or whatever. Maybe a few legit hackers, but not if it is a lot of people.
So are you saying that a mass number of accounts got banned? It's confusing from the post, i'm guessing that english isn't your first language which is fine, but exactly how many people are we talking? if it's a few 10's or 100's then I don't think it's a big deal, other than sucking for the people who got banned obviously. But if it is like 1000's that's a much bigger deal. Also, were these bans simultaneous? Or have they been happening over the course of a few days?
I don't see why only Taiwanese players would get banned because of this.
Many people edits MPQs and have been doing it for a long time. In Eu, KR and US.
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On July 13 2011 14:29 KaienFEMC wrote:
I heard several cases from my friends, since we are a Taiwanese clan who play on both NA and TW servers. Two of our clan members had their account banned in TW server, and one of the guy hasn't really been active at all for the past 2 months.
There are two more cases that seemed interesting.
One had added a 7-days trial TW-SC2 serial to his NA-SC2 account half an year ago. One added a full TW-SC2 liscense to his NA-SC2 account couple months ago. Both of them had their NA-SC2 account banned. The first guy of course can not check his TW-SC2 status since it was only a 7-day trial. The second guy however, can still log on to TW-SC2 with the account. No 3rd party program was used to log on to B.net. They both downloaded and installed TW-SC2 client in a separate folder.
Is there anymore people who bounded more than two accounts from different regions to one e-mail address and got hit by the ban hammer??
Maybe it's got something to do with using that relocalizer program.
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Wait a minute.....did think only happen in TW?
Because i think I got a few friends in my Clan who also got banned for no reason.......and I'm pretty sure they are not using hacks, and some of them havent even been playing 1v1s.
Some of them I played with for a long time, and they are in top8 masters for a few months already......I doubt they are stupid enough to hack on these kind of accounts.
Also some people who got banned only play custom games like desert strike.....saying they are using drop hack is just.......lols.
I think Blizz fucked up big time....
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Please change the OP, I thought a disaster happened or something.
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On July 13 2011 14:44 snotboogie wrote:
Please change the OP, I thought a disaster happened or something.
It's in Sc2 section so it shouldn't be a problem.. There was a similar thread on Reddit stating people who didn't hack got banned. Seems to have some truth to it. it seems to have affected more than TW.
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On July 13 2011 14:41 LaLuSh wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2011 14:29 KaienFEMC wrote:
I heard several cases from my friends, since we are a Taiwanese clan who play on both NA and TW servers. Two of our clan members had their account banned in TW server, and one of the guy hasn't really been active at all for the past 2 months.
There are two more cases that seemed interesting.
One had added a 7-days trial TW-SC2 serial to his NA-SC2 account half an year ago. One added a full TW-SC2 liscense to his NA-SC2 account couple months ago. Both of them had their NA-SC2 account banned. The first guy of course can not check his TW-SC2 status since it was only a 7-day trial. The second guy however, can still log on to TW-SC2 with the account. No 3rd party program was used to log on to B.net. They both downloaded and installed TW-SC2 client in a separate folder.
Is there anymore people who bounded more than two accounts from different regions to one e-mail address and got hit by the ban hammer?? Maybe it's got something to do with using that relocalizer program.
They downloaded TW client just to avoid these kind of programs that may potentially causes a ban though...
Also, for the people asking how many people are getting banned and at what time period.
It seemed to occur simultaneously, which happened this morning (july 13rd Taiwan time).
It is hard to estimate the number of people getting banned, but I would guess in the ranges of hundreds (judging by the amount of posters on forums and bbs).
However, many of these people are taking parts in clans (Master/Grand Master competitive play) and even progaming scene (Taiwanese proleague TeSL players). So the voices are much louder. Some people gets all their accounts banned (KR/TW/NA), some people only got one of the many accounts banned. It is a very bizarre situation right now..
Edit: I just heard another case. This guy transferred his TW account to NA server (which was available to TW players a while ago), and his "current" NA account also got hit by the ban hammer.
I begin to suspect some database error in the TW server....
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Ive been banned,this is ridiculous
I havn't play TW server for a long time,but i just got banned today
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If there was a mishap, Blizzard will fix it. But with the way warden works if there was a detection a week or two ago (or even MONTHS ago), it would make sense to ban the accounts during the merger. Warden just doesnt fuck up. There are occasionally reversals where large groups of people get banned for something they did not know was wrong (this could be whats happening, some program injecting and changing memory), but tbh, I'm kinda skeptical about it being a mistake. Guess blizzard just f'd up hard? It's hard to say because maphacks were so common in BW. And the language barrier between NA and the rest of the world aids in preventing cheaters from asia and europe from getting caught (as blizzard employees who manage warden probably aren't on top of every cheat/3rdparty software/pirate site in multiple languages). Delayed bans is how Blizzard works. I'm curious to see how this plays out though. But sorry, cheaters are cheaters, lying and cheating goes hand in hand, and although i'm not trying to point any fingers (guy above me), guilty until proven innocent I guess ;/ . Perhaps these bannings are tied to Blizzards war against drop hackers, perhaps they stepped up their anti-cheat game when the ladder was completely FUBAR for a week or two. These are the results of that war mistake or not.
I cannot really remember a time when blizzard banned incorrectly, however there were some vac ban reversals on steam a while back. Just the nature with delayed bans, people thought they were safe and then boom, one day they've been banned. Best way to go about banning cheaters also.
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On July 13 2011 14:44 snotboogie wrote:
Please change the OP, I thought a disaster happened or something.
Sorry
I am not a native speaker, I didn't know that the word "Chaos" is such a strong word
Oh, how can change the title?
I only know how to edit the article.
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You cant, report the post perhaps and request a mod to change it for you. Other than that, if a mod feels the title needs to be changed, it will be.
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a hacker will always deny he hacked and make up stupid excuses. Yea sure maybe 1% of the banned ppl might be by mistake, but to have shitloads of ppl saying they got banned in error is a bandwagon LOL situation hahahahhhhhhhhaha
quite frankly the system wont ban you if it didnt catch you doing something illegal. I play music all the time when i play starcraft 2 and i did not get ban , soo..........
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Weird shit... I hope this gets sorted. Seriously confusing stuff...
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On July 13 2011 13:34 Emporio wrote:
Who buys starcraft only to play starjeweled?
I think there's more going on than just some mistakes. I could be wrong here though.
i have a lot of friends that olny play the custom game storm of the imperial sanctum.
and yes, there are some that really just plays bejeweled.
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I and several of my friends were banned today. We all use the chat program Raidcall. We all play on the NA server.
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I got banned today, both on NA and SEA. This has been very frustrating. I sent Blizzard a ticket and they replied saying that they will keep me banned. I have never used 3rd party programs when playing Starcraft 2, so I am very surprised. Blizzard better fix this.
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On July 13 2011 15:13 Codeskye wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2011 13:34 Emporio wrote:
Who buys starcraft only to play starjeweled?
I think there's more going on than just some mistakes. I could be wrong here though. i have a lot of friends that olny play the custom game storm of the imperial sanctum. and yes, there are some that really just plays bejeweled.
And i don't see a problem with that at all.
Hey, its even worse in my case, i bought the game and played 50-70 games over all and stopped pretty much completely.
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If it helps my wow account was randomly banned a few days ago but I haven't played in months all I play is SC2 and my account there is perfectly fine.
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I'm banned on NA and I NEVER EVER EVER EVER have used hacks!
EDIT: All I have been playing lately is mafia lol I can't beleive I'm banned for hacks. Also too the guy above saying people are making excuses is just ignorant.
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I just received a response from Blizzard to the ticket I sent in after i found i was banned. They said they were upholding the ban.
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On July 13 2011 15:05 AlphaWing wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2011 14:44 snotboogie wrote:
Please change the OP, I thought a disaster happened or something. Sorry I am not a native speaker, I didn't know that the word "Chaos" is such a strong word Oh, how can change the title? I only know how to edit the article.
You have to PM a moderator with your request; only they can change thread titles 
Also this sounds a bit crazy; is it not at all associated with the server merge?
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ah this sounds pretty scary.. I checked all my accounts on SC2ranks and all still seem to be there, thankfully.. but what scares me is I just started using this relocalizer program last night.. really should of just downloaded each indiviual client, it sounds shady as fuck and any risk is a bad risk.. Theres no way I would of ever downloaded any of those music or background changing programs, thats suicide.
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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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i think its not relocalize program coz im using it always to change server but im not ban even in sea nor TW server im playing at the EU atm i check all my accout all intact, maybe they really use hack lol
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had someone in the US servers get banned too and he never cheats.
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On July 13 2011 16:19 Kazeyonoma wrote:
had someone in the US servers get banned too and he never cheats.
We'll have to wait to hear from blizzard, with this "outrage" there will be a response. Long story short though is that cheaters lie. I've had IRL friends i've known for years lie about it, and it's actually people you talk to regularly that are much more likely to lie.
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Maybe they finally started doing what everyones been fearing all the time and start banning people for ridiculously small transgressions to the ToS, such as changing background, relocating and sharing accounts, which would suck since I have changed the english voices to korean since the english zerg is pathetic and I don't want to be banned.
More likely though, it's an error and Blizzard will fix it.
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perhaps they start reading the data from the report section and look up if there is any cheating.
Just kidding. we all know they dont...
You are on the save site if you think its an error if bliz act. in most case your right.
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Now there are people recording stats of how many players been banned.
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 43% of people has been banned...
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And you know these banned players are being honest because...?
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On July 13 2011 16:57 hmunkey wrote:
And you know these banned players are being honest because...?
I guess we will see eventually, but i seriously doubt this is the case.
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Blizzard man, always getting ahead of themselves. Linking servers from one day to the next..
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On July 13 2011 16:57 hmunkey wrote:
And you know these banned players are being honest because...?
Because it is not likely that 43% of people are cheating.
There must be something wrong.......
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On July 13 2011 16:57 hmunkey wrote:
And you know these banned players are being honest because...?
Because so many people from all part of TW SC2 community are banned, and no one can pinpoint the cause because some people used chinese's relocalizer/edit mpq for background ect, while some don't, and also some who did but was not banned.
And there are cases where a few Taiwan professional's account that only used for Taiwan's televised league (TeSL) are banned too, and there is no reason to use hack what so ever in those account because players all played from TV studio where teammates sits right next to them.
Not to mention all the Taiwan's clan has reported some of their players are banned, it has already caused inconvenience in clan matches, and the uproar from community is pretty big.
However most know it's a glitch by the Blizzard's Warden system, and so they are just waiting to Blizzard to fix all this.
You'd think bunch of hackers will be angry enough for their wrongdoing and trying to organise a case for Taiwan's Consumer Protection Commission?
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They better fix this issue fast
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From the graph, alot of the people seem to use "RC" which another user in this thread said him and his friends were banned and they all had "RaidCall" in common, I'm guessing the TW acronym is the same program. Must be an isolated wrong detection, unless raidcall was doing something malicious.
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Oh shit. Looks like something went wrong during the region mergers.
this could be really really bad but I think they have backups.
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On July 13 2011 17:56 Phayze wrote:
From the graph, alot of the people seem to use "RC" which another user in this thread said him and his friends were banned and they all had "RaidCall" in common, I'm guessing the TW acronym is the same program. Must be an isolated wrong detection, unless raidcall was doing something malicious.
I have used raidcall during my games too, was not banned. However I use the US version and not Taiwan's.
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there a new case form a TW player....
the ban reason : none
wtf......
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some who have written here and have been banned have edited the MPQ of the colors?
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On July 13 2011 13:34 mprs wrote:
Chaos is probably not the right word. "Chaos in Libya" would be appropriate
I'm sure this is just a glitch from the server merger.
As long as there is no official statement from blizzard, and nobody knows what's going on (phoning hotline is useless), I'd say it's a pretty big chaos.
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lol, only one word comes to mind and it's "FAIL" , I Mean shit come on Blizzard.... This could of easily been avoided..I hope everyone gets they're accounts back and everything is cleared up soon
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On July 13 2011 18:21 GGzerG wrote:
lol, only one word comes to mind and it's "FAIL" , I Mean shit come on Blizzard.... This could of easily been avoided..I hope everyone gets they're accounts back and everything is cleared up soon
Until we know for sure what is going on, you cannot blame Blizzard.
Now it indicates that it is just a mishap, but who knows. Time will tell.
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I've been back and forth with the help desk several times and they wont give me anymore information then that their system said I was using some sort of 3rd party software. 7 people who use our RaidCall server were banned and none of us have ever hacked or anything of the sort.
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On July 13 2011 16:57 hmunkey wrote:
And you know these banned players are being honest because...?
I play on the US server and I'm banned although 75% won't believe me. I did not use hacks! This must be a mistake with their database or something. This is extremely upsetting to me.
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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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Hopefully it will be fixed (and hopefully aswell all the hackers on eu/na/sea/etc will be banned VERY SOON). Anyway if blizzard fix it soon, taiwanese players can be still very gratefull because of the kr + tw fusion
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On July 13 2011 19:03 AlphaWing wrote:This is silly, someone got banned and opened the mail sent by Blizzard, and this what he saw: http://i.imgur.com/8UUlE.jpgShow nested quote +
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!
Well that's just scammers trying to take advantage of the situation to steal accounts, nothing unusual there. Those emails are not actually from Blizzard.
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damn that sucks, gogo consumers protection commision. shouldnt be like that.
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On July 13 2011 19:38 AlphaWing wrote:Another screen shot by the same user: http://i.imgur.com/zqXbX.jpgShow nested quote +
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.....
Most likely this wall have to do alot with the linking of regions. I can imagine the system is not yet working as it should. Im still not convinced all the bans are a glitch, i suspect the followup on the bans to be glichted; like the reason/account inaccessible etc.
Still waiting for blizz to post news about this.
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Lol quite the headline, i was sincerely worried for a few seconds there :O.
I'm sure this'll get resolved, it's a big fuckup for blizz.
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The fact that Blizzard hasn't said anything about this makes me angry.
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On July 13 2011 19:52 LoLAdriankat wrote:
The fact that Blizzard hasn't said anything about this makes me angry.
Well, they don't work 24/7. Blizzard TW seems to have very little control over the issue as well.
We will just have to wait and see.
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as far as im concerned with the mail written in chinese is a virus, i've received one once, it said that my WoW acc was banned or something like this (never played WoW o,o). Spotted the virus when the mail asked me to open up a link to blizzard's forum, but the link was misspelled like blizzart instead of blizzard and stuff... Hope those guys get their acc back!
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damn this is pretty bad honestly
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Don't blame blizzard... Blame activision for the seperate servers! ;D
Seriously though, this is pretty bad, dropped the ball down 20 flights of stairs there.
Hopefully its sorted soon.
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http://i.imgur.com/0J31r.jpg
Ban Reason : N/A
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i believe all this thing is a mistake...
hope Bz fix more quickly
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hm, probably new server on the 16th. But it would suck for them to not be able to play for 3 days because of the merge.
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CHAOS IN TAIWAN
"Fuck has there been cyclone or a flood or something?"
*Opens thread*
"Ohh, 2% of the population is having trouble with their Sc2 accounts..."
lol
I hope it gets sorted out for you guys.
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LulzSec comes out of retirement to screw with Blizzard?
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On July 13 2011 20:55 Pyo wrote:
LulzSec comes out of retirement to screw with Blizzard?
Yeah, good luck with that.
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I thought there was a war or something...
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I hope this doesn't occur or affect when Russia and EU also emerges.
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On July 13 2011 21:29 eYeball wrote:
I hope this doesn't occur or affect when Russia and EU also emerges.
I'm not worried at all, if it would have been a error due to the merge then blizzard would have probably already said something.
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Maybe its a hacking? lol good luck to those who got their account banned
The title totally mislead me i thought some war had started or something >_>
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lol, thought some disaster had hit the country
Possibly some trolling from hackers?
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i have a feeling there's more to this.
Blizzard might have banned a lot of the accounts that sent those guest invites that almost all the drop hackers used.
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On July 13 2011 21:47 StimBullet wrote:
i have a feeling there's more to this.
Blizzard might have banned a lot of the accounts that sent those guest invites that almost all the drop hackers used.
What... that's just umm racist. 40% of the SC2 population in Taiwan being banned? Is that stat true because that's just crazy. Wonder what strange turn of effects made this happen.
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It must have something to do with the server merge
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Blizzard should make a statement regarding this
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I'd just like to point out that you probably can't draw any conclusions from the "people who have been banned" list, if the way it works is that people enter themselves. It's only reasonable to expect that people who have been banned are more likely to enter themselves in something like that than people who haven't.
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On July 13 2011 21:50 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2011 21:47 StimBullet wrote:
i have a feeling there's more to this.
Blizzard might have banned a lot of the accounts that sent those guest invites that almost all the drop hackers used.
What... that's just umm racist. 40% of the SC2 population in Taiwan being banned? Is that stat true because that's just crazy. Wonder what strange turn of effects made this happen.
Until Blizzard actually releases some kind of statement it's all speculation, as is the 40% number. As much as people complain about blizzard (LAN etc), they're actually a company that provides way better service to it's customers then pretty much any other gaming company out there. With all their games they have a history of pretty clear and open communication, so how about we cut them some slack?
If it's a mistake, I'm sure they'll say so publicly and fix it. If it isn't, I'm sure we'll get to hear the reason too.
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wow its about false bans..
I thought something a terrorist attack,natural disaster or war.
silly me.
well i like how blizzard take care of business f them hackers better this then the horrors of mw2.
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Poor title, I thought it was riots or a natural disaster or something. This is pretty weird though but probably just some anti-cheating routine that didn't quite handle the move that well. It will be dealt with but of course it will take time since they have to fix the problem (and verify the fix) before they can revert the account statuses or else people will just get banned again, and that would look even more bad.
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Hi sorry guys,
I was born in Taiwan and immigrate to Australia over 10 years and I apologize everybody accused taiwan people were banned somehow, I read "StarCraft II End User License Agreement" already and I understand to Blizzard rules, they MUST read it before they play sc2, I'm really sorry about they were rude and never follow StarCraft II End User License Agreement, I shall tell them not over twice.
Whatever if I ask questions "Why didn't they read StarCraft II End User License Agreement certainly or pretend?", even they were banned and never get account back if they have to buy a new copy and read terms agreement at the beginning, those were simple happens.
Blizzard is not "easy and convenient" for taiwanese it is HUGE Blizzard entertainment, I swear said on it and respect all players.
Thanks everyone to read and regard this.
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Wow, title scared the shit out of me since I come from taiwan and my family is there :/
As for the bans, waiting on Blizz to release a statement, the people wrongfully banned should at least get some form of apology if its Blizzards fault
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It sounds to me like an extremely successfull wave of phishing and a lot of people fell for it, resulting in them losing their accounts... sounds really unlikely, but the whole OP reads like a "phishing mail" story...
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On July 13 2011 22:09 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:
Hi sorry guys,
I was born in Taiwan and immigrate to Australia over 10 years and I apologize everybody accused taiwan people were banned somehow, I read "StarCraft II End User License Agreement" already and I understand to Blizzard rules, they MUST read it before they play sc2, I'm really sorry about they were rude and never follow StarCraft II End User License Agreement, I shall tell them not over twice.
Whatever if I ask questions "Why didn't they read StarCraft II End User License Agreement certainly or pretend?", even they were banned and never get account back if they have to buy a new copy and read terms agreement at the beginning, those were simple happens.
Blizzard is not "easy and convenient" for taiwanese it is HUGE Blizzard entertainment, I swear said on it and respect all players.
Thanks everyone to read and regard this.
Funniest post all week.
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On July 13 2011 22:20 Soleron wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2011 22:09 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:
Hi sorry guys,
I was born in Taiwan and immigrate to Australia over 10 years and I apologize everybody accused taiwan people were banned somehow, I read "StarCraft II End User License Agreement" already and I understand to Blizzard rules, they MUST read it before they play sc2, I'm really sorry about they were rude and never follow StarCraft II End User License Agreement, I shall tell them not over twice.
Whatever if I ask questions "Why didn't they read StarCraft II End User License Agreement certainly or pretend?", even they were banned and never get account back if they have to buy a new copy and read terms agreement at the beginning, those were simple happens.
Blizzard is not "easy and convenient" for taiwanese it is HUGE Blizzard entertainment, I swear said on it and respect all players.
Thanks everyone to read and regard this. Funniest post all week.
Well they can't be forgiven of sins and have to buy new copies, they'll restart while play sc2 from the beginning etc league placement and achievement, I'm surprising of these for today.
Respecting players are still simple, not complicated anymore.
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that is fucked up. hope people get their accounts back.
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I honestly don't understand why Blizz can't have like 5 dedicated employees per server constantly go over all the hacker submissions/requests as they come in and ban them right then and their. I don't understand why they wait for mass bans or even what their methods are. It can't be more then a few clicks on their end to ban an account.
Furthermore coding things like free name changes for or for money after so many people complain I don't understand.
Poor Taiwan looks like they have a solid little server too.
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On July 13 2011 23:27 Nizzy wrote:
I honestly don't understand why Blizz can't have like 5 dedicated employees per server constantly go over all the hacker submissions/requests as they come in and ban them right then and their. I don't understand why they wait for mass bans or even what their methods are. It can't be more then a few clicks on their end to ban an account.
Furthermore coding things like free name changes for or for money after so many people complain I don't understand.
Poor Taiwan looks like they have a solid little server too.
It's not that they can't do it. It's a conscious decision to ban in waves because that means that people who are cheating will never know if, or when, their cheat is detected.
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On July 13 2011 23:40 HellRoxYa wrote:
It's not that they can't do it. It's a conscious decision to ban in waves because that means that people who are cheating will never know if, or when, their cheat is detected.
Okay so are you trying to say that it's SCARIER because they don't know when their cheat is detected?
How about banning people within a few days (always) of a detected hack so that people will realize "oh hey if I start hacking they're going to get me in a few days" and not "lol season 3 just started time to start hacking, I won't get banned until the end of the season most likely"
It's whatever, just another screw up by blizzard.
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On July 13 2011 22:14 Morfildur wrote:
It sounds to me like an extremely successfull wave of phishing and a lot of people fell for it, resulting in them losing their accounts... sounds really unlikely, but the whole OP reads like a "phishing mail" story...
Yea, i think so too. I get emails like that from the games I played (and not played). People have to be more careful if this is actually what happened.
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Yeah I think it's phishing. I get 59734563475 e-mails a day from "Blizzard Entertainment" telling me my WoW account has been banned and to enter their site and login with my battlenet ID so they could see if I made a mistake.
Obviously ignore them as I don't even have a WoW account.
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I don't see what's racist in those bans.
Might be a mistake (which i'm sure it is) but racist? no.
You guys go to far sometimes ..
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On July 13 2011 13:34 mprs wrote:
Chaos is probably not the right word. "Chaos in Libya" would be appropriate
I'm sure this is just a glitch from the server merger.
this, seriously. i thought something 10x worse than this happened. Chaos is a very strong word.
With that being said, this is a pretty big blunder on blizz's end. almost laughable, actually..
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There are some report from people on China server had been banned with out doing anything wrong as well.
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Blizzard would aware of virus from trojans are mainly problems during maintenance, they banned hackers from the beginning and were already written in BNet terms of use. Simple means, someone wants to use any messengers within sc2 game, you can't download SKYPE, MSN, Yahoo messenger and others from eMule and uTorrent programs be unauthorized third-party software which are not official websites downloading, you're permit only downloading any messengers from official website without trojans.
So trojans must be vanished.
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This is just one of the many e-mails I get phishing messages from:
wowgm@blizzard.com (wowgm@blizzard.com)
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Whoa, that's pretty big. I hope Blizzard can reverse things, but at the same time, their account being deleted?
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On July 14 2011 00:14 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:
Blizzard would aware of virus from trojans are mainly problems during maintenance, they banned hackers from the beginning and were already written in BNet terms of use. Simple means, someone wants to use any messengers within sc2 game, you can't download SKYPE, MSN, Yahoo messenger and others from eMule and uTorrent programs be unauthorized third-party software which are not official websites downloading, you're permit only downloading any messengers from official website without trojans.
So trojans must be vanished.
You don't make sense.
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Ah this makes me so scared sometimes when i read these threads. But i trust the blizzard overlords enough
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On July 13 2011 20:48 SecondChance wrote:
CHAOS IN TAIWAN
"Fuck has there been cyclone or a flood or something?"
*Opens thread*
"Ohh, 2% of the population is having trouble with their Sc2 accounts..."
lol
I hope it gets sorted out for you guys.
oh you might guess right.... this or maybe not.
Chilling...
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On July 14 2011 00:35 SirMilford wrote:
Ah this makes me so scared sometimes when i read these threads. But i trust the blizzard overlords enough
yup
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Why do ppl think something happened to Taiwan as a country? This topic is in the StarCraft 2 section of the board, so it's obviously something related to StarCraft 2 in it.
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I'm glad I wasn't banned. Verrrrry strange situation.
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I am not banned either. However no matter u are from Taiwan, Europe, Kr ,Sea, NA...SAME THING COULD HAPPEN TO YOU! I hope everyone sees this thread pay more attention on this one.
I support the action of banning cheaters. But BZ has gone too far.
Banning you without telling you why? Damn, that's an insult. By what law can BZ do this?
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wow, that ban list is huge
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Looks like Blizzard has taken some action against the rampant hackers throughout battle.net and updated their warden, which seems to be banning everything that is interacting with SC2 in any way, a hack or not. Seems a definite possibility at least.
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It sounds more like Anonymous got ahold of blizzards servers and is having some fun
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On July 14 2011 02:27 Mohdoo wrote:Looks like I may have been right when I said that 3rd party programs which are able to allow for a lot of interaction and overlay are likely the cause of this ban http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=243511 - same thing happening with raidcall. Mohdoo wins again ^____________^
People are just drawing early conclusions when people has used/not used raidcalls are banned left and right. There are also people who has their overlay on and was never banned.
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Well Blizz is in the shit aren't they? Kind of ridiculous considering how many non-hackers were banned and how many are still hacking (just queued up to a drop-hacker).
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woahhh . i can't imagine this being anything other than some crazy hacking or inconceivable mistake
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I just bought tw version, I wonder if I should try to play while this mass banning is happening 
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On July 14 2011 03:54 kYem wrote:I just bought tw version, I wonder if I should try to play while this mass banning is happening
No point trying it now since season 3 hasn't started yet. Wait till 26th
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Even if people were hacking, they would say that they weren't. Nobody wants to be dubbed a "hacker". I'm sure a ton of the people denying it are just denying it because they don't want to be seen in that light.
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these days... I hate to bring it up, but mb Blizzard TW got hacked...
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This seems to be someone hacking Blizzard's database.
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i have a feeling they are getting hacked by someone
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On July 14 2011 04:11 ClanRH.TV wrote:
Even if people were hacking, they would say that they weren't. Nobody wants to be dubbed a "hacker". I'm sure a ton of the people denying it are just denying it because they don't want to be seen in that light.
Yes, clearly taiwanese progamers would hack using the accounts for broadcasted games.
It makes perfect sense.
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My taiwanese friend got a "3-day ban".... funny thing is she said she doesn't use any third party program (though I cannot verify this :p). The only thing I could verify is that she's only playing (and trying to finish) the single player campaign in normal mode.
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On July 14 2011 06:42 Jisunsu wrote:
My taiwanese friend got a "3-day ban".... funny thing is she said she doesn't use any third party program (though I cannot verify this :p). The only thing I could verify is that she's only playing (and trying to finish) the single player campaign in normal mode.
I am afraid it is not a 3 day ban, it is that your account will be deleted in 3 days.
http://i.imgur.com/ib8h2.jpg
If the "3 days" comes from this one,
then it means your account is going to expire in 3 days.
This is what people were told by BlizzardTW.
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i feel so bad for the people involved but i still smilled at the "reason for ban:none" part of the op. just seems like theres some guy working at blizzard being the biggest troll he can:D
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On July 14 2011 07:12 AlphaWing wrote:Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 06:42 Jisunsu wrote:
My taiwanese friend got a "3-day ban".... funny thing is she said she doesn't use any third party program (though I cannot verify this :p). The only thing I could verify is that she's only playing (and trying to finish) the single player campaign in normal mode. I am afraid it is not a 3 day ban, it is that your account will be deleted in 3 days. http://i.imgur.com/ib8h2.jpgIf the "3 days" comes from this one, then it means your account is going to expire in 3 days. This is what people were told by BlizzardTW.
Wow that sucks. I guess I'll have to break the news for her. Sad thing was I egged her to play SC2 even though she wasn't really a gamer (I mean she plays the game using a Mac for goodness sake)
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Sounds like a bunch of hackers trying to make up excuses, I doubt blizzard "accidentally" banned anyone don't pay attention to these trolls.
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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
Did you ever think for a minute that maybe they were never banned and they just fell for an email phisher? And that the e-mail gave them a fake bnet website to login to to steal their login info, hence why their account didn't exist? And so on...
herp?
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Want to see some Stats?
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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On July 14 2011 07:50 jsdk wrote:Show nested quote +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 Did you ever think for a minute that maybe they were never banned and they just fell for an email phisher? And that the e-mail gave them a fake bnet website to login to to steal their login info, hence why their account didn't exist? And so on... herp?
But they cannot log in to Battle.net,
most people found out that they can't log in, and then checked their e-mail for information.
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Okay now that I woke up from last night and I am banned on US. Like I stated and from everyone I talk to they all say RC and I use RC for a guild on Eden Eternal and I'm in that 24/7. So it must be part of the problem Maybe since you can put it on screen while on sc2 it counts as 3rd party. Hopefully this gets figured out.
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Breaking NEWS!!
People in Taiwan just got their Accounts back!! :D
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not sure where you got your info but I asked them and they said it's ban expire date.
This one is mine in english version.
Origination In-game Activity
Ban Type: in-game activities that violate the Terms of Use.
Expires: Friday, July 15, 2011 6:59:33 PM PDT (in 2 days, 2 hours)
Ban Reason: N/A
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On July 14 2011 04:11 ClanRH.TV wrote:
Even if people were hacking, they would say that they weren't. Nobody wants to be dubbed a "hacker". I'm sure a ton of the people denying it are just denying it because they don't want to be seen in that light.
On July 14 2011 07:42 gosuMalicE wrote:
Sounds like a bunch of hackers trying to make up excuses, I doubt blizzard "accidentally" banned anyone don't pay attention to these trolls.
Shame on you guys, it was indeed some sort of accident, now we start seeing reports people got their account back.
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On July 14 2011 08:46 mindwave1sg wrote:not sure where you got your info but I asked them and they said it's ban expire date. This one is mine in english version. Origination In-game Activity Ban Type: in-game activities that violate the Terms of Use. Expires: Friday, July 15, 2011 6:59:33 PM PDT (in 2 days, 2 hours) Ban Reason: N/A
I got it from the Customer Support from BlizzardTW.
maybe it is just that the Customer Support in BlizzardTW, doesn't know anything about this.
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On July 14 2011 08:56 furymonkey wrote:Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 04:11 ClanRH.TV wrote:
Even if people were hacking, they would say that they weren't. Nobody wants to be dubbed a "hacker". I'm sure a ton of the people denying it are just denying it because they don't want to be seen in that light. Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 07:42 gosuMalicE wrote:
Sounds like a bunch of hackers trying to make up excuses, I doubt blizzard "accidentally" banned anyone don't pay attention to these trolls. Shame on you guys, it was indeed some sort of accident, now we start seeing reports people got their account back.
Trolls will be trolls, and most likely hackers too. Don't mind them, just trying to cover their own guilty tracks.
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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
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I'm worrying about they got accounts back and will use cheats, harassment or frame up people and make people have lost friends again, there's no making up excuse anymore when Blizzard warned to taiwanese for long time ago, they still need to follow BNet terms of use for all the time.
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On July 14 2011 11:30 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:
I'm worrying about they got accounts back and will use cheats, harassment or frame up people and make people have lost friends again, there's no making up excuse anymore when Blizzard warned to taiwanese for long time ago, they still need to follow BNet terms of use for all the time.
-_-
You cant be serious, its like you havent read a single part of the thread.
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Pretty clearly there was some kind of mixup, so anyone reacting too crazily to this really needs a reality check and should be more sensible.
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I am sorry, but what is RC you guys talking about? Is this a kind of program that have no related to SC2 but was mistaken as cheat?
EDIT: Nvm, I found out about what RC is now
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oh blizzard, how you amuse me...
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As unreasonable as it sounds, Blizzard has the full rights to do whatever they just did.
You all have signed the agreement when opening that battle.net account, So respect their authority!
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On July 14 2011 15:20 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 11:30 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:
I'm worrying about they got accounts back and will use cheats, harassment or frame up people and make people have lost friends again, there's no making up excuse anymore when Blizzard warned to taiwanese for long time ago, they still need to follow BNet terms of use for all the time. -_- You cant be serious, its like you havent read a single part of the thread.
okay
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Sweden33719 Posts
On July 14 2011 20:16 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 15:20 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On July 14 2011 11:30 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:
I'm worrying about they got accounts back and will use cheats, harassment or frame up people and make people have lost friends again, there's no making up excuse anymore when Blizzard warned to taiwanese for long time ago, they still need to follow BNet terms of use for all the time. -_- You cant be serious, its like you havent read a single part of the thread. okay
I mean, its pretty clear that Blizzard banned these people because their anti-hack was turning up false positives, I dont think you need to worry about the vast, vast majority of these players being cheaters.
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On July 14 2011 16:26 DJams wrote:
As unreasonable as it sounds, Blizzard has the full rights to do whatever they just did.
You all have signed the agreement when opening that battle.net account, So respect their authority!
You talk like if somewhere in the User licence it said your soul will be theirs, and that you'll have to work for them after you turn 18, for free, it gives them full rights to go ahead and actually do it.
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On July 15 2011 00:12 Tschis wrote:Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 16:26 DJams wrote:
As unreasonable as it sounds, Blizzard has the full rights to do whatever they just did.
You all have signed the agreement when opening that battle.net account, So respect their authority! You talk like if somewhere in the User licence it said your soul will be theirs, and that you'll have to work for them after you turn 18, for free, it gives them full rights to go ahead and actually do it.
I'm sure that is in the EULA, but I bet you didn't read it, so...
Although I think a lot of ppl don't mind working for Blizzard, for free.
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On July 14 2011 11:30 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:
I'm worrying about they got accounts back and will use cheats, harassment or frame up people and make people have lost friends again, there's no making up excuse anymore when Blizzard warned to taiwanese for long time ago, they still need to follow BNet terms of use for all the time.
Why are you trying so hard to make the Taiwanese seem like villains? Do you have a grudge or something?
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Xiang Zhi reads like a spam bot.
Almost seems like he is actually saying something.
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On July 15 2011 00:04 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 20:16 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:On July 14 2011 15:20 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On July 14 2011 11:30 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:
I'm worrying about they got accounts back and will use cheats, harassment or frame up people and make people have lost friends again, there's no making up excuse anymore when Blizzard warned to taiwanese for long time ago, they still need to follow BNet terms of use for all the time. -_- You cant be serious, its like you havent read a single part of the thread. okay I mean, its pretty clear that Blizzard banned these people because their anti-hack was turning up false positives, I dont think you need to worry about the vast, vast majority of these players being cheaters.
I know what you mean of this, no worries.
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On July 15 2011 10:44 kochujang wrote:Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 11:30 Jim Xiang Zhi wrote:
I'm worrying about they got accounts back and will use cheats, harassment or frame up people and make people have lost friends again, there's no making up excuse anymore when Blizzard warned to taiwanese for long time ago, they still need to follow BNet terms of use for all the time. Why are you trying so hard to make the Taiwanese seem like villains? Do you have a grudge or something?
This post is over and no bump anymore, I'm not villains but I knew what's going on, just play fairs and nice as you will, no needs trying that argument.
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As long as blizzard admits they are wrong when they have a false positive and gives people back their account I'm happy about it. I would rather that they try as hard as they can to catch cheaters and get a few false positives than do nothing because they fear the wrath of the fans over a mistakenly banned account. People need to understand that they are simply trying their best to ensure a fair ladder for the players, its a hell of a lot more than most game companies do.
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On July 13 2011 13:26 AlphaWing wrote:There has been some madness in Taiwan right now, not 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. Show nested quote +"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. ---------- 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. --------- Update: Show nested quote +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 --------- 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/2oKWiRed 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. --------- Update: This is silly, someone got banned and opened the mail sent by Blizzard, and this what he saw: http://i.imgur.com/8UUlE.jpgShow nested quote +
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. --------- Update: Another screen shot by the same user: http://i.imgur.com/zqXbX.jpgShow nested quote +
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.jpgAnother guy in NA server, this is in English: http://i.imgur.com/0J31r.jpg--------- Update: Seems like this got something to do with Radicall.... Also see this topic http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=243511And this topic: http://no.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/io16x/anyone_else_just_get_banned_for_hacking/--------- Update: Breaking NEWS!! People in Taiwan just got their Accounts back!! :D --------- Update: A letter from Blizzard: Show nested quote +
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
lol, welcome to the corporate face. I told u guys theey'd do us like this.
here's their canned response, which Im guessing all people that called to overturn ti got "After thorough investigation, we decided the course of action we took was legit". Right?
Because they don't. they just ignore it and reply with that e-mail so you will go away.
They don't want to admit fault.
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I wonder if some of it was because of any edited MPQ files?
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Well at least it only affected Taiwan.
If this happened in NA or KR, there be shitstorms everywhere.
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On July 15 2011 15:13 JiPrime wrote:
Well at least it only affected Taiwan.
If this happened in NA or KR, there be shitstorms everywhere.
You did not have to phrase it as if Taiwan was some miniature country or something, just because their population is not as large to confront Blizzard sooner.
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On July 15 2011 12:46 BlizzrdSlave wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2011 13:26 AlphaWing wrote:There has been some madness in Taiwan right now, not 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. ---------- 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. --------- 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 --------- 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/2oKWiRed 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. --------- 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. --------- 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.jpgAnother guy in NA server, this is in English: http://i.imgur.com/0J31r.jpg--------- Update: Seems like this got something to do with Radicall.... Also see this topic http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=243511And this topic: http://no.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/io16x/anyone_else_just_get_banned_for_hacking/--------- Update: Breaking NEWS!! People in Taiwan just got their Accounts back!! :D --------- 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
lol, welcome to the corporate face. I told u guys theey'd do us like this. here's their canned response, which Im guessing all people that called to overturn ti got "After thorough investigation, we decided the course of action we took was legit". Right? Because they don't. they just ignore it and reply with that e-mail so you will go away. They don't want to admit fault.
Did you even read the post you quoted? The overturned the ban.
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On July 15 2011 01:40 DJams wrote:Show nested quote +On July 15 2011 00:12 Tschis wrote:On July 14 2011 16:26 DJams wrote:
As unreasonable as it sounds, Blizzard has the full rights to do whatever they just did.
You all have signed the agreement when opening that battle.net account, So respect their authority! You talk like if somewhere in the User licence it said your soul will be theirs, and that you'll have to work for them after you turn 18, for free, it gives them full rights to go ahead and actually do it. I'm sure that is in the EULA, but I bet you didn't read it, so... Although I think a lot of ppl don't mind working for Blizzard, for free.
My point is that just because it's in the EULA doesn't give them the right to do it. Just because you agreed doesn't mean they can do it.
It's like signing an EULA agreeing that Blizzard can kill you... just because it's in the EULA and you agreed doesn't mean they have the right to do it.
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HELP!
recently i made a taiwanese battle.net account, then i bought, and added sc2, after downloading the taiwan client, i cant login, so at first, i thought i must have forgot the pass word, but when i went to the page that tells you to enter your battle.net email, it says that email isnt registered with a account, its like my account got deleted
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i can understand if there's an outrage over a mass-ban in the States but lol isn't there loads of fun stuff in Taiwan like the midnight Confucius orgies and massive nightlife? why would they cry over a blizzard product?
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On July 28 2011 09:25 IzieBoy wrote:
i can understand if there's an outrage over a mass-ban in the States but lol isn't there loads of fun stuff in Taiwan like the midnight Confucius orgies and massive nightlife? why would they cry over a blizzard product?
I didnt believe you so I googled it and well... you are right about the beach orgy
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/291220/mass-beach-orgy-stirs-taiwan-police
lol
TL:DR;
"A suspected beach orgy involving 21 adults, most of them over 40, has shocked a quiet village on the palm-studded coast of south Taiwan, sparked massive media coverage and now a police investigation."
from that link
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On July 13 2011 13:28 meep wrote:Uh oh, I hope this gets solved soon, getting banned for no reason really sucks. (Happened to me on WoW), took weeks for me to get my account back but I quit anyways. Reading the thread title at first made me imagine a huge crowd of people running around Taiwan buying SC2 games to get onto the KR server.
quit WoW? Best decision ever.
on a more serious note, I hope this all gets worked out.
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On July 15 2011 15:13 JiPrime wrote:
Well at least it only affected Taiwan.
If this happened in NA or KR, there be shitstorms everywhere.
This just kind of feels like an extremely assholeish post to me (even though I'm sure you were just trying to raise a point about how many people would be affected/complaining)
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