Blizzard Closes 100000 Bnet Accounts

00039 · April 2003

they closed accounts of people who hacked yep most maphackers pindle and mephbotters they got a few dupers too

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00039 · April 2003

more info here

<a href='http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?FN=d2-general&T=70691&P=1&ReplyCount=20#post70691' target='_blank'>http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?F...nt=20#post70691</a>

Loke · April 2003

My god, they will close my Account because I use my friends cd-key, I planed to buy the game today... but I think I will get it tomorrow instead.

00039 · April 2003

just checked on my account it's still there

*Deletes his maphack*

Dubers · April 2003

Wha... who gives a crap. All they will do is make a new account.

Smoke_Nova · April 2003

I think they closed the accounts of Pindle and Meph botters more then anything, cuz my account is still their and I lovest meh Maphack...perfect for my Zon

Slycaster · April 2003

Btw, account closing means banning your cd-key from all of battle.net. Basically, you won't be able to play on that copy of your game anymore, hehe. I'm glad blizzard is doing this. Hacks basically ruined D2 for me, realm play has been horrible ever since, my opinion. :D

Dubers · April 2003

There are the certain element who will have more than one CD key unfortunately. It's a crying shame people don't have the respect to not cheat and consider other gamers enjoyment.

Smoke_Nova · April 2003

I agree with them shutting down the accounts of Bot users and Occy hackers. I *personally* see nothing wrong with Maphack. Simply makes it more convenient for a person to find their way around. So I don't spend an hour searching the Worldstone keep to kill baal with my dual Ali Baba's.

James_H4xwell · April 2003

Hacks basically do ruin battle.net. D2 was the best game ever untill the day soj's rained from teh sky. Other than that they are starting to ruin starcraft. It used to be only people in the lower ladder ranks and a few people hacked but now... its starting to turn out like diablo where to actually compete in teh game u have to have the hacks. I hacked a long time ago on starcraft back when i was a noobie. Nowadays it sucks because you dont know if your plan actually failed, if they were better than you, or they just have a hack. Its getting to where everyone has to have one.

TenSix · April 2003

Translation: We killed off 100,00 of our player base, yay!

I would be deeply honored and motivated to know 100,000 people are somehow illegally using my work <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Vyvn · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cyanide @ Apr 1 2003, 04:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Btw, account closing means banning your cd-key from all of battle.net. Basically, you won't be able to play on that copy of your game anymore, hehe. I'm glad blizzard is doing this. Hacks basically ruined D2 for me, realm play has been horrible ever since, my opinion. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I got the impression from the post on the <a href='http://www.battle.net/' target='_blank'>Battle.net homepage</a> that only the accounts were deleted, not the CD keys. There were some instances of CD key disablement, but only temporarily.

Most everyone would probably agree that it is the hacks that ruined D2 entirely. With all the rampant duping, cloning, and botting, it's no wonder most every item is worthless, and you can't get nearly anything for an identified item. Maphack I feel is not quite as bad, maybe because I used to use it back when I played D2, but more so because you still have to actually work for your items, even if it is a tad quicker.

babygirl · April 2003

Great. Now maybe if they did this TWO WHOLE YEARS AGO I might still have the motivation to play the game. But gee, dealing with two years of hacked and duped items really leeches the fun right out of it. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'>

Once again, a timely response by Blizzard.

DOOManiac · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TenSix @ Apr 2 2003, 08:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I would be deeply honored and motivated to know 100,000 people are somehow illegally using my work :D  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
You only say that because nobody has. Trust me, when somebody rips you off, flatery is the last thing you feel. I know, I've had it happen to me. And my work is crap, so what does that tell you? Yeah, stupid ripper-offer! :P

Oh and I think Blizzard let you cheating jerks off easy. If I were in charge, you'd all be lying in a shallow grave, and even the dung beetles would be to disgusted to go near you.

Silver_Fox · April 2003

rofl

ZERG · April 2003

Anyone remember that chest hack? Well, after that thing sorta came out of nowhere. Funny, Blizzard caught on really quick and banned everyone that used it. After the bannage they patched it up on the server side almost immediately. A lot of people speculated that Blizzard put out the chest hack themselves haha.

Tiio · April 2003

Just FYI, the maphack they're referring is more for WC3 then D2. The D2 one gives a minor advantage, but really, it doesn't help that much. The WC3 map hack, on the flip side, gives you a huge and unbelievably unfair advantage.

But, yeah. Go Blizzard!

Slycaster · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (babygirl @ Apr 3 2003, 02:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Great. Now maybe if they did this TWO WHOLE YEARS AGO I might still have the motivation to play the game. But gee, dealing with two years of hacked and duped items really leeches the fun right out of it. :angry:

Once again, a timely response by Blizzard.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Well said babygirl.

Zanid · April 2003

Who the hell is Pindle?

FeydToBlack · April 2003

pindle is the corpse that is waiting for you in nhilathek's temple at the entrance. Noone notices him, but he is supposed to be able to drop almost anything. Pind bots go and kill him dozens of times in an hour and pick up all good drops.

I only know this because my little bro uses it. And he wonders why his account was deleted. Fortunately for him he still has his mule accoutns (including one with litterally 8 chars that have inventories full of SOJs).

I only have this to say: the EULA is right there in front of you every time you create an account.

Narf · April 2003

I can't wait for 1.10 for so many reasons. It will *hopefully* kill the damn dupes and hacks that made me quit D2 almost a year ago, but the ladder characters will be very cool... starting in a fresh world but still on the relms. No rushing lv1s to act5 hell <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>
And I think people got what the deserved. If you're gonna cheat and hack and ruin the game for others you should be punished. I actually think blizzard even went too easy on some like the dupers.

Keyser · April 2003

I remember the first time I got an SoJ. I literally spend 3 months gambling for it, and I finally got it. There were tears coming out of my eyes I was so happy. But then the hacking started up, and people started getting 5000 SoJ's per account. I got so **** off I just stopped playing D2, and thats that.

Blizzard Closes 100000 Bnet Accounts

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