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This time it is even bigger than the last. Good to know they're still acting on these things I guess.
StarCraft and Diablo II Battle.net Ban Policy Update
Nebu on November 11th, 2008
As part of our continued effort to ensure a fair and fun online experience for all Battle.net players, we have expanded our efforts to remove cheaters from StarCraft and Diablo II. We have identified and closed over 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo II accounts which were found to be using third-party hacks.
The Diablo II CD keys associated with the closed Diablo II accounts are now restricted from playing on Battle.net for approximately 30 days. Repeat offenders will have their accounts closed and their CD keys permanently banned from Battle.net.
As a reminder, we reserve the right to close the accounts and ban the CD keys of players who are caught cheating on Battle.net. Cheating ruins the game experience for legitimate players, and we will not tolerate it.
Source: http://www.battle.net/
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I just read this. I was looking up the previous ban counts and this dwarfs them all. I think the largest amount was around 60k, and today they ban 350k users... holy cow. I'm betting most of them were D2 Maphack or bot users.
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Most of them are probably D2Loader users. D2Loader is the D2 equivalent of Chaos Launcher, it includes things to load plugins, reduce CPU usage, fix crash bugs in D2s code and make the text more readable in windowed mode. Banning for loader is a big wtf as there are thousands of legit users who will be hurt by it.
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having your acct closed in SC and in D2 are soooooooooooo not equal punishment
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On November 12 2008 10:18 R1CH wrote:
Most of them are probably D2Loader users. D2Loader is the D2 equivalent of Chaos Launcher, it includes things to load plugins, reduce CPU usage, fix crash bugs in D2s code and make the text more readable in windowed mode. Banning for loader is a big wtf as there are thousands of legit users who will be hurt by it.
Yup, I am one of those users. I play legitimately and use D2loader to run multiple instances of D2 on my comp to priv CS. It sucks they did it to D2loader but I guess it's time to go back to starcraft 
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On November 12 2008 10:25 KOFgokuon wrote:
having your acct closed in SC and in D2 are soooooooooooo not equal punishment
qft..
unless it's an IP ban as well.
o well dynamic IP ftw
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On November 12 2008 10:32 PauL_JoneS wrote:Show nested quote +On November 12 2008 10:18 R1CH wrote:
Most of them are probably D2Loader users. D2Loader is the D2 equivalent of Chaos Launcher, it includes things to load plugins, reduce CPU usage, fix crash bugs in D2s code and make the text more readable in windowed mode. Banning for loader is a big wtf as there are thousands of legit users who will be hurt by it. Yup, I am one of those users. I play legitimately and use D2loader to run multiple instances of D2 on my comp to priv CS. It sucks they did it to D2loader but I guess it's time to go back to starcraft
how beautifully optimistic?
don't see that alot these days
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Good for Blizzard I can't stand hackers, sucks for those legit users though.
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I'm going to go check if mine wasn't banned...
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It's too hard to play D2 without maphack
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Why would they IP ban when they can CD-KEY ban.
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[QUOTE]On November 12 2008 14:05 Murlox wrote:
Why would they IP ban when they can CD-KEY ban.[/QUOTE
Keyban is only for the Key with IP they could ban you from D2, BW and WC3
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On November 12 2008 10:32 PauL_JoneS wrote:Show nested quote +On November 12 2008 10:18 R1CH wrote:
Most of them are probably D2Loader users. D2Loader is the D2 equivalent of Chaos Launcher, it includes things to load plugins, reduce CPU usage, fix crash bugs in D2s code and make the text more readable in windowed mode. Banning for loader is a big wtf as there are thousands of legit users who will be hurt by it. Yup, I am one of those users. I play legitimately and use D2loader to run multiple instances of D2 on my comp to priv CS. It sucks they did it to D2loader but I guess it's time to go back to starcraft
wow that sucks for a legit player like you.
multiple instances was the best part in mule, self rush and multiple anni farming.
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200k of those accounts are probli item shops lol
edit-------- also on the d2loader debate
There are soo many different plugins for loader.
So why should blizzard put in the effort to detect and ban the dozens of different d2loader plugins out there when they could just ban the whole thing.
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thank god, hacking on WC3 is so bad right now
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On November 12 2008 10:18 R1CH wrote:
Most of them are probably D2Loader users. D2Loader is the D2 equivalent of Chaos Launcher, it includes things to load plugins, reduce CPU usage, fix crash bugs in D2s code and make the text more readable in windowed mode. Banning for loader is a big wtf as there are thousands of legit users who will be hurt by it.
Do you know this for sure? I remember when the last patch hit the versions of D2L that came later were pretty hacked together, but I guess it doesn't really matter if warden is as intrusive as they say it is.
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So ... chaoslauncher = ban? yes? no?
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yeah??!! they will ban me for using chaoslauncher latency changer now? wtf?
fast , teach me how to completely delete it from my system!!!
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I dunno about starcraft bans but a lot of the "cheats" in Diablo II are really justified.
Not using a maphack is just simply moronic and insane because having a different map every game is just ridiculous. Maphack doesn't take away gameplay or make it unfair for users (to an extent), it just saves people a lot of time and, IMHO, is essential.
Then there's D2loader which was mentioned above, and dupes. Dupes, I feel, are an essential part of D2's economy. Instead of making everything really easy to get it actually makes everything POSSIBLE to get. The higher runes (Jah and Ber in particular) have like a one-millionth chance of dropping and are used in so many runewords. Only with dupes is it actually possible for a realistic number of people to get these runes and make Enigma, infinity, etc.
Of course you have to draw the line somewhere (tppk, auto-aim, that program that alters your breakpoints whose name i can't remember) but D2 is just so ridiculous in many ways.
/rant
I used to play it a lot but now I kind of hate it with a passion.
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Nah. Maphack is definitely not justied. It's not part of the original game and unlike you said, *will* give an advantage to those who use it. Less time to find+kill bosses = More items than other players have with the same amount of playing.
Dupes aren't essential in any way either, it's more like they *ruin* the economy. If everyone used legitly obtained items, there'd be much more usable and realistically tradable gear and having those epic runewords would actually mean something. I don't think anyone cares if someone has an Enigma nowadays because it's 99% certainly not legit. Yes, rune drops are too rare but hacking isn't a solution. The only alternatives are Blizz increasing the droprates via a patch (which isn't happening I'm pretty sure), or just living with the best items you can get your hands on, which sounds more like how the game was meant to be played in the first place.
Always good to hear about hackers getting caught/quitting/getting annoyed. Small steps towards better D2...
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