In einer groß angelegten Offensive gegen Cheater und Hacker hat Blizzard 320.000 Nutzer temporär vom Battle.net ausgeschlossen. Betroffen sind Spieler von Diablo2 und Warcraft 3.
Die Sperre wurde zunächst für 30 Tage ausgesprochen. Wiederholungstäter sollen gänzlich von den Spielen ausgeschlossen werden. Im Forum verkündete Blizzard, dass die Sperrungen auch der Serverstabilität dienen sollen.
Ein nicht unbeachtlicher Teil der Sperrungen sei dabei auf anonyme Hinweise zurückzuführen. Ehrliche Anwender können sich weiterhin an das Hacking-Team wenden und dort Hinweise über Hackversuche abgeben, sowie verdächtige Websites und Angebote melden.
"We’ve recently banned over 320,000 Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts that were found to be violating the Battle.net Terms of Use. If this is a first offense, the CD key associated with the banned account will be suspended for 30 days, while repeat offenders will see their keys banned permanently. All account ban decisions are final.
We would like all players to remember that abuse of unintended mechanics and/or use of third party programs is a violation of the agreement made when signing on to Battle.net, and can subject your account to disciplinary action up to and including a permanent ban of its access to the service. These types of activities can severely impact the stability of our servers, and we’ll continue to aggressively monitor Battle.net in order to protect the service and its players from the harmful effects of cheating.
Many account closures come as the direct result of tips emailed to our hacks team by legitimate Battle.net users. If you come across a hack, find a site responsible for distributing hacks, or have a replay of a newly available hack, please report this to our hacks team at hacks@blizzard.com or through our Hacks Report Form at http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&tag=hacksform
As always, thank you for your continued support, and we'll see you on Battle.net!"
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