I’m sure some of us were awakened to hear frantic forum posts about account bannings. Undoubtedly you stumbled upon Blizzard’s statement:
Nebu on November 11th, 2008:
“As part of our continued effort to ensure a fair and fun online experience for all Battle.net players, we have expanded our efforts to remove cheaters from StarCraft and Diablo II. We have identified and closed over 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo II accounts which were found to be using third-party hacks.
The Diablo II CD keys associated with the closed Diablo II accounts are now restricted from playing on Battle.net for approximately 30 days. Repeat offenders will have their accounts closed and their CD keys permanently banned from Battle.net.
As a reminder, we reserve the right to close the accounts and ban the CD keys of players who are caught cheating on Battle.net. Cheating ruins the game experience for legitimate players, and we will not tolerate it.”
It’s not surprise this many accounts were banned and I think this ban has been coming for ages. Surprisingly however they seem to be banning for not only dangerous and unfair cheating but also for programs that have been seen as ok for years.
I am referring to D2Loader. This no-cd hack has been around for years with nearly 0 bans for it until now. This program allowed users who had multiple valid cd-keys to start another instance of Diablo for whatever reason they wanted to. Most people transferred items from their magic finding characters to their level 1 ‘mules’ for storage.
Some other hacks that have been put on the confirmed list as being detectable include:
D2Loader
Patched D2Gfx.dll (for multiple instances).
TMC’s Breakpoint.
Failed To Join Game Delay Reducer (Battle.net & TCP/IP versions)
RevealFurther
RDBlocker
Item Drop Notifier
VersionHack
Corpse Killer
[RedVex]ScourgeProxy
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