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Starcraft 2 cheaters: Beware! Blizzard is cracking down on your sorry asses, and the hour of reckoning is at hand! The company is taking aim at exploits, cheats and hacks in the amazingly popular sci-fi RTS, promising perma-bans from Battle.net for egregious offenses.
Blizzard sent out a statement today reading:
"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."
So consider yourself on-notice. More important than bannination from battle.net, If you use cheats or exploits, you should consider the choices you're making in life and the kind of person you are. I believe cheating says something about your character and your worth as a human. If you really need to beat other people by using unfair means, I question your integrity.
Cheating is bad, but I understand why people cheat in real life situations. If you cheat on your taxes, it's to get a little extra money. If you cheat on your girlfriend, it's to get a little bit of something else. But cheating in a video game just seems so pointless, I'm genuinely puzzled as to why anyone would even bother.
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Nub Salad
I don't understand cheating in video games. I mean I dont like it in sports or anything else, but at least in pro sports, you're cheating to get ahead and to get more money. So while you may know you didn't really earn it honestly, at least you have the money to show for it. But in video games it doesn't make sense at all. OK so you hacked your 10th prestige or cheated to get that high rank and all those wins, everyone knows you cheated, you know you cheated, and no one that matters even cares about your video game rank or whatever, and you didn't get any money or anything out of it.
You're just sitting in a lie making the game worse for other people, and the only possible thing you could be getting from it is the enjoyment of ruining other people's fun. Seriously, what do these people do in real life? Who are these people? I'm serious, if you have repeatedly cheated in an online game, I want to know what you got out of it and what you do with yourself when you aren't online ruining a game. This is kinda anonymous, so come on, stand up for yourself.
sudas82
Good Job Blizzard. Rockstar said they would ban cheaters too. Does anyone know if any people got baned?? Hopefully Activision is next!!! Good Job Blizzard.
miva2
Beating cheaters with fairplay is awesome.
Malimber
Eh at the end of the day the people who cheat don't really care what others think. Calling them bottom feeders just makes them think its sour grapes because other people didn't think of it first. They're more interested in being able to say, "I'm awesome I won so many games regardless of how I got there!!". Its about time the ban hammer came down on these retards but be clear its not because blizzard wants to keep the game honest, its because cheaters effect their bottom line. Who wants to pay for a license to hold a tournament on a game that is easily hacked.
ThermOptics
Online cheaters are those kids nobody wanted to play with at the playground.
For example:
"I got you, you're dead!"
"Naw - I had a force shield around me"
Er something that effect.
Leverage is one thing, but cheating in-game (hacks & exploits) is the gaming equivalent to steroids in sports.
alaskanhybrid
"If you use cheats or exploits, you should consider the choices you're making in life and the kind of person you are. I believe cheating says something about your character and your worth as a human. If you really need to beat other people by using unfair means, I question your integrity."
@Stephen Johnson Thank you. I could not say say it any better. This goes for all games,but Im looking at a particular game(MW2), these people make me want to tear from the amazingly cheap lengths they go through just to get that edge on people that want to play it fairly(me).
AxeX1606
@Stephen Johnson
Cheating in single player isn't that bad is it?! I know I do it every now and then for those missions I just can't stand.
DrowNoble
Never bought SC2. I wanted to, but when (1) you only get one campaign for $10 more and (2) requires I login to battlenet to play Single Player. Seriously Blizz, please stop trying to force feed us "Teh Awesomeness of Da New Battlenet!".
I8NY
For the lolz Stephen. They do it for the lolz.
sephirothcloud
I understand why their doing this on Online play but for doing this on Single Player Campaign? That's low. Plus maybe some cheat to out cheat the cheaters as well.
Beath
blizzard bans people from there games in dramatic waves..
not 1 or 2 at a time.. but like 100,000 or 250,000 at once..
if you think microsoft are hardcore about cheaters and hackers.. just wait till you see blizzard lay the smack down... they HIt EVERY ONE.. hard.. you will see... you will see
shingoy
I was using cheats on the campaign only... im not even sure if that trainer works on online matches because I never tried... I just wanted to unlock all campaign portraits am I so bad? T_T
Kazuhira
oh blizzard spare me from getting my as kicked by the koreans.
OpWildRabbit
I love reading articles like this but why are serious crackdowns on cheaters so rare? Cheating is ridiculously common in online games.
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