daRk_heLmet

A number of additional accounts and CD keys have been tied to the use of a hack or cheat program while playing Warcraft III on Battle.net. In keeping with our aggressive stance against cheating, we have permanently closed 53,928 Warcraft III accounts. 8,168 of the Warcraft III CD keys used with the now-closed accounts have been banned from ladder play for one month, and 3,331 more have been banned from ladder play permanently. Repeat offenders risk having their CD keys disabled, which will result in the permanent removal of their copies of Warcraft III from Battle.net.
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Zardon

That will teach them !

Erroneus

And cs gamers could only hope for something similar on the steam network!

Nicely done Blizzard

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The_Neon_Cowboy

"53,928 Warcraft III accounts. 8,168 of the Warcraft III CD keys used with the now-closed accounts have been banned from ladder play for one month, and 3,331 "

so 50,000 look to be temparary bans or they simply need to reenter thier cd key and choose a new or verry simulr screen name and start again.... whoopty do say the cheaters....

They did nothing as useal

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Zardon

Its hardly nothing. Its a warning, and quite a good public one at that.

Dom

I don't know why anyone would want to cheat while playing on-line, I can't imagine it being fun.

daRk_heLmet

a paper on cheating
http://www.itu.dk/op/papers/kuecklich.pdf

there was another big one posted within the last week....but cant find it...

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Dawnrazor

It's nothing. We see these press releases from Blizzard every few monthes saying how some huge number of cheaters have been suspended/banned/whatever. Either every cheater in the world is on Battle.Net and they're taking theor time about getting rid of em, or they just suspend them for a month and then its back to cheating as usual.

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caqde

Interesting article although to me it doesn't completely answer Dom's question.

People seem to cheat because of their need to feel that they are better than others. They want to brag about how good they are or at least to themselves say I am better than those other players. A sort of psychological need on the part of the cheater.

Although for the creator of these cheats it may just be the part of defeating the system as in that article that is actually what they are after. Although I would say that the majority especially the part of the users of these cheats that is not the case in the multiplayer realm. They don't care about defeating a system. The average user is likely just wanting to prove to themselves that they are above others.

Well at least this is how I see things.

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People love to be unique, different, the center of attention. In a game where your'e quickly lost in the crowd of thousands of other players, you only have two choices for becoming recognized. You can toil countless hours and raise your rank in the game, reaching the top and demanding respect, or you can spend a fraction of the time ruining other people's game experience. Who's more famous? The guy who spends his whole life becoming president, or the guy who shoots him?
Infamy is no different than fame on the internet since the anonmity veils morals we would typically hold.

Unfortunately the best way to deal with cheaters is to completely ignore them (making them ruin the game only for themselves) and that isn't going to happen.

In battalion whenever we encounter a cheater we don't talk to them or give them any attention...we slowly diminish their stats until they're cheating with no gain and then if it still continues they get disconnected and are unable to connect again. They don't come back because they weren't making a name for themselves like they had hoped.

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In other words, it's never okay to steal even if you think you have a good reason!

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