I think it’s a bit harsh to ban people for using multiple accounts on 1 PC. I know it’s against the ToS, but why ban someone for doing something Blizzard knows should have been in the game. Blizzard themselves say they will fix muling for Diablo 3 and how it is really crappy in Diablo 2, yet they ban people for finding a workaround. By the way, since I don’t play Diablo 2 anymore, I have not been banned. If I still played, I would’ve been banned for using a modified d2gfx.dll to use multiple accounts on 1 PC.

It is also funny that they are totally fine with people running more than one copy of WoW at the same time. I guess it has something to do with monthly payments so that they can earn some more $$$$

It is indeed an oddy. Still, for StarCraft at least, this is good news, as it’s mainly only hackers. You don’t really need multiple StarCraft accounts for battle.net, and if you do, you can =).

What the hell took them so long? And why only 30 days?

This 350k banning is hardly a “strong message.” A strong message would be if Blizzard banned people continuously, which they choose not to do. Blizzard does these batch bans because a) it makes for a better headline, and b) it earns more money at the Blizzard Store with people buying new Diablo II CD-Keys.

The best time to start using hacks in Diablo II is right after a mass ban.

Blizzard is too nice. They need to castrate cheaters, not give then a 30 day vacation to look for better hacks.

I want to see 350,000 bans every day!! Lol. I don’t care if there are only me and 2 other legit guys left in the end.

Even though I dont still play the game, I don’t think this is nice. Cheating in against the rules, but 350k people is about the totality of the players who cared about the game.

When everybody arounds you uses maphack for 2 years without getting banned, it’s more then normal to be tempted.

I really think Blizzard lacks in efforts to keep these games cheat and hack free. These bianual bans do nothing, the same thing will happen over and over again and everybody will still use hacks. This is sad.

I think its great they are even making an effort…for those of you who used maphack all you really have to complain about is yourself lol it is in the ToS ...I cant really comment on the other games like SC and WoW because I havnt played them enough recently to know about the cheating but i can say routine mass banning will still keep the vets of D2 on their toes and the noobs out of the game ...not to mention the completely annoying ad bots :( ...almost makes me glad i dont play anymore…anyhow as for muling, they realized they made a mistake plain and simple…you cant just go back and rewrite the ToS to a game thats sold TONS of copies, then certain people would have more rights than others and blizzard would eventually have all their servers crash due to a bunch of nooblets spamming complaints about how unfair it would be for them to buy a new copy just to be able to play like they are used to…outy

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When was the last time this happened?  2005?  I bet their running scared now.

Also, Wrath of the Lich King was just released.

Blizzard is clever. This mass ban was timed to occur at the same time as the Wrath of the Lich King release.

Perhaps 25% of those Diablo II and Starcraft players banned temporarily or permanently just went and bought Wrath of the Lich King. This means that this ban just earned Blizzard 3.5 million dollars upfront and 1.3 million dollars per month thereafter.

This ban’s timing was a good business decision by Blizzard.

I wonder how many people on Diii.net got nuked because of modded .dlls? Seriously.

Ok, I confess to having a modded d2gfx.dll. I like to self rush my SP chars. I log into Battle.net to keep my account from expiring, or I should say, I used to log in. Well, I don’t have to worry about my account expiring anymore, eh?

I guess the only thing anyone can say is we were warned.