Blizzard close 350,000 cheating accounts!

[Spitfire]

Blizzard have identified and banned ~350,000 accounts!

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.

[Mathalamus]

350,000? jesus thats a biiig number.

[Nethran]

Hahaha. Ha. Hahaha.

Eat that, cheaters.

[Warslut]

Good for Blizzard!

...

Now fix your Goddamn glitches.

[Skye]

Jesus that's a huge amount.

May I ask, how many actually play!?

[Mathalamus]

a lot.

[The Mob]

hmm, this number seems too big to be true.
for starcraft, there is roughly 60-70k people on at once. maybe less (im too lazy to log onto battle.net and check)
and there is certainly no more than 100k people playing D2 at once.
but what they did say they closed were accounts, so im guessing they targeted people's mule accounts as well.

[Skye]

Not helpful, Math.

But yeah I heard they were targeting mules.

I just thought that 350k is effing huge. I was interested to know how many players they have active, if they banned that many people =/

[SpoonMan999]

350k accounts is only like 150k at the most. I'm sure the majority of these accounts were mules, I had 4 mule accounts at one point, if they said 350k cd-keys or ips banned I'd be speechles.

[Edit] I'd like to add that anyone who was dumb enough to use a loader/bot/hack right after a warden update deserved a ban...way to be an idiot.

[Nethran]

100k might be conservative with D2. You have to add all the people playing expansion with those playing classic, then softcore, hardcore, ladder, and non-ladder for each, then each realm. And keep in mind that there are a lot of private games up that you don't see on the game list. That's a damn lot of people.

[Blue]

Isn't there a population counter in the chat window that told you on how many people were playing on that current realm?

[The Mob]

yup. and i bet that number fell through the floor. lol

[Spitfire]

Oh well. Maybe more people will enter SOTW to gain free CD Key sets :p

[skidude]

Wow i think this is the first time i missed getting banned eek:

[JayKey]

this sucks so much i was playing legit and got banned too wtf....

[Siris]

Didn't think that many ppl still play diablo II.

[Blue]

this sucks so much i was playing legit and got banned too wtf....

I doubt that.

[Mathalamus]

anyone who was banned had to use hacks sometime.

[Blue]

anyone who was banned had to use hacks sometime.

Thanks Captain Obvious.

[spartan74]

i heard only like 3000 got banned not 350,000!!!! never really knew that there was that many ppl playin diablo and starcraft.