If you think Blizzard‘s like other game companies that don’t take their cheaters seriously, then around thousands of battle.net users learned the lesson the hard way.
That’s right, according to a Kotaku post around a little over than 5000 user’s accounts were suspended due to the use of hack or mod programs. According to Blizzard, the spirit of fair play is not the only one in trouble cheat programs can lead to stability and performance issue with the service.
Here’s the warning Blizzard left prior the mass suspension:
Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating in any form in Blizzard games very seriously, and that’s no different for StarCraft II. If a StarCraft II player is found to be cheating or using hacks or modifications in any form, then as outlined in our end user license agreement, that player can be permanently banned from the game. This means that the player will be permanently unable to log in to Battle.net to play StarCraft II with his or her account.
Playing StarCraft II legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client. Doing otherwise violates our policies for Battle.net, and it goes against the spirit of fair play that all of our games are based on. We strongly recommend that you avoid using any hacks, cheats, or exploits. Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future.
This stand holds true to Blizzard‘s adamant resolve to take down any forms of cheating. If you’d recall they also suspended around 350,000 users who were using third party hacks in their games.
Now that’s what I call good service! 😀
