Blizzard Shuts Down Thousands of Accounts
- June 11, 2003 10:53 AM PST
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Diablo II cheaters may have finally met their match.
Blizzard Entertainment announced on their Battle.net homepage that they have kicked off another set of cheaters from their servers. This time they've targeted Diablo II hackers, and the scale of the operation is fairly immense?over 112,000 accounts have been shut down, with the CD key behind each account duly recorded for banning should any repeat offenders show up.The publisher also cautioned users against using Diablo II "map-hack" programs, add-ons that give players an unfair advantage by revealing the entire map a the start of a game. "As with any third-party program, using [map-hack programs] to affect play over Battle.net violates our End User License Agreement," Blizzard's notice said. "Accounts that continue to be used with a map-hack program are subject to closure, and the CD keys with which those accounts are being used could be disabled."
Blizzard has traditionally been very tough with cheaters on its Battle.net system?it deleted 20,000 Warcraft III accounts last fall after a similar map-hack tool sparked widespread cheating in the strategy RPG's online rankings.
