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.
One can only hope that such bans continue, as all of us have fallen prey to the thousands of spam bots poisoning Battle.net as never before and often circumventing such player precautions as level requirement settings for public games. On a positive note, Bashiok went on to inform that these account bans were in many cases thanks to player emails to their hotlines:
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.c...S&tag=hacksform
So, keep it up- each email you send is less spam for all of us!
I want to tell you all that i know of 3 cd keys that got banned without a reason, one of those cd keys was mine. Last summer, i bought 3 copies of d2+lod from a local store with original cd keys. Me and 2 of my friends used those keys to play together on b.net, European realm.
Very nice, Blizzard. How exactly do you confirm if an account is worth banning? I guess you don't need much? And what if a bot or whatever uses a cd-key from someone else?
Mass banning is stupid. And the reasons are vague. Its just for stopping hacks and stuff? Yeah, sure. Like thats gonna make a difference. Ban as many as you want, you'll never stop them all. Its inevitable that you will catch some people that don't deserve to be banned, but you probably don't give a shit about that.
Dude, this is not the first time i get banned for no reason. I send them emails all the time but it dosnt help. And calling them wont help either. They just said, all ban decisions are final.
Im telling you, they just randomly ban ip's or something... And they dont give a fuck about emails.
Official Blizzard Quote:
//www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/bn-forums/24401612571-diablo-ii-and-warcraft-iii-battle-net-bans.html">http://www.diablofan...e-net-bans.html" class="blizzsource">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.
One can only hope that such bans continue, as all of us have fallen prey to the thousands of spam bots poisoning Battle.net as never before and often circumventing such player precautions as level requirement settings for public games. On a positive note, Bashiok went on to inform that these account bans were in many cases thanks to player emails to their hotlines:
Official Blizzard Quote:
//www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/bn-forums/24401612571-diablo-ii-and-warcraft-iii-battle-net-bans.html">http://www.diablofan...e-net-bans.html" class="blizzsource">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.c...S&tag=hacksform
So, keep it up- each email you send is less spam for all of us!
We never used hacks.
Never.
And we all got bannned.
BULLSHIT.
such as mods, etc
(this is not related to hacks)
Mass banning is stupid. And the reasons are vague. Its just for stopping hacks and stuff? Yeah, sure. Like thats gonna make a difference. Ban as many as you want, you'll never stop them all. Its inevitable that you will catch some people that don't deserve to be banned, but you probably don't give a shit about that.
Im telling you, they just randomly ban ip's or something... And they dont give a fuck about emails.