Blizzard Bans Over 5,000 Starcraft 2 Accounts

Blizzard has permanently sentenced over 5,000 StarCraft II hackers’ accounts to the black list today, and stated that they intend to continue to crack down on cheaters. This follows Blizzard’s September 14 announcement that they would soon be taking action against hackers and cheaters, and emphasizes their commitment to protecting their millions of valued customers from those who use cheats, exploits or hacks in 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.”

Blizzard regularly purges hackers and cheaters. On April 20 they banned over 320,000 Battle.net gamers who had used exploits in Warcraft III and Diablo II; however, at the time they were lenient with first time offenders, and only placed a 30 day suspension on those accounts. Blizzard continued on to warn users that these bans would begin soon.