Blizzard bans over 5,000 StarCraft 2 cheaters

I would have to play StarCraft 2 to care.

Fail. It's not over 9000.

I first read "Keep it legit, fiends"

Just one more round of bannings and they can say they've banned over 9,000.

I love seeing gaming companies take action against online cheaters.

I wish the pokemon games were less hackable, it kind of really wrecks a lot of the fun.

If you get banned can you still play the single player game?

Cheating in order to win at anything is actually quite ironic. Cheaters are pathetic losers. I say ban 'em forever, every last one of 'em.

Hacker: "Hello, ISP, Can I get a new IP address?"
ISP "Certainly Sir, Finished halfway through you asking."

The last thing they saw on their screens was Dr. Hax's reflection

Should I make another joke about their ban level being over 9,000? jk

Honestly, I couldn't care less about Starcraft because I don't have a computer, or the money for a computer, that can run a game like that and besides that I'm complete and utter garbage at RTS games.

HOWEVER, I absolutely LOVE reading stories like this because they make me happy. To see people who ruin the experience of any game get banned is great. It's like rubbing in the fact that I'm better than them because I DIDN'T cheat.

On another note though, I really wish these people would quit warning people. Just ban them straight up. They know if they're cheat or not and if they are low enough to ruin someone else's game experience for the sake of mindlessly earned and ultimately worthless stats, then they deserve every bit of that ban hammer smashing into their face. Doesn't matter if it's the first time or the 100th time, if you cheat it doesn't matter.

Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to do it. Just because you can boost in pretty much every online FPS ever doesn't mean I have to. I didn't boost in CoD4 and I didn't boost in MW2 while I had it. I didn't boost for awards in BFBC2 by having a friend on the other team and I haven't exploited Halo: Reach's custom settings.

If I can avoid those things which aren't explicitly outlawed and technically aren't cheating, then these people can avoid running Macros and Hacks while playing their games. It's pathetic than anyone would ever feel the need to do any of this. With games going more and more towards at least partially user and automatically moderated punishments, see Halo: Reach quitting and chat solutions, hopefully these things will end completely in the future.

Ban-Hammer 5000. Great for raids.

banned my friend, who i know doesn't cheat.

I would imagine they love doing this. It makes them look good in the community, plus a bunch of the losers that have to cheat to win use their mommy's credit card and just buy another copy of the game.

Does Blizzard still have Local Area Network gaming built into their games so you could use it with local friends? I never used it with any RTS, but it was a lot of fun doing it with Diablo and Diablo II.

Two words: Yeeeeee-aaaaaaaaay!

Ban those bastards!

Haha to the dweebs who play starcraft and got the permabanhammer. !!!

lol of course they're going to ban players for cheating .... its two fold beneficial for them.

Firstly it keeps people who don't cheat happy because they are doing something about it. Which is a good thing because cheaters suck.

Secondly it makes Blizzard a crap ton of money because odds are over 50% of these cheaters are going to go down and buy another copy of the game to play on online again. But hell even if only 10% go out and buy the game again blizzard still made somewhere around 30,000 for pressing a few buttons.

Ban those sorry asses, they don't even deserve warnings.

So anyway in more IMPORTANT news obviously not on this page...

o i got a question, you know how in custom games against just the computer you could type in cheat codes, like power overwhelming? Anyone know if that stuff still works?