So Long, StarCraft II Cheaters! Enjoy the Ban!

[youssef 2010]

I would cheat against computer AI ONLY (and even that happens in very rare situations)

 

[whysobluepandabear]

@ Soccerplayer 88

It's called "Macshift". You ban me, I change my MAC in no joke..less than 1 minute. I can also mimic your MAC address that is broad casted from your WIFI router. So either random assignment, or manually input an address of your choosing.


On topic, good. Ban them. Also ban their WoW accounts if that isn't what happens also. I assume banning the entire B-net account means everything tied to it....correct?

 

[robwright]

Just sayin'

Banned in the U.S.A.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I can testify that blizzard will ban people for breaches. Even if they aren't doing anything harmful. Like using your website as name improving stability of your game client.

In the eyes of blizzard any modification of game client files is worth a ban - even if you just enable LAA to avoid wow crashing in northrend or want a different health bar color in diablo.

To be on the safe side, anyone who has more than one blizzard product should consider making a different account for each. So that one blizzard screwup doesn't kill all the games you've paid for. Unlike steam there's no fix for a screwup if it happends. In fact blizzard is unlikely to even admit any.

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]RipperjackAU[/nom]So I guess playing with a NOCD .exe would also result in a ban, even if you were not cheating.See.... it's not about fair play, its about piracy!!! Blizzard = RIAA![/citation]

You wont be able to authenticate with battle.net with a nocd exe. Let alone patching it...

Plz refrain from talking about stuff you dont understand.

 

[dalta centauri]

Never seen hackers in SC2...people would spend 120$ on a game to cheat when they know their going to end up being banned?

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]geofry[/nom]I like the idea of banning, but they do need to take a graduated approach to banning that increases exponentially. 24h for the first ban, 48h for the second, 96 hours for the third, etc.[/citation]

Cheating = perm ban

 

[sliem]

While I agree on banning cheaters, I think they should allow cheating/trainer in single player mode.

 

[nightcrawl3r]

I am glad they are finally taking action against cheaters!

 

[kalem13]

[citation][nom]soccerplayer88[/nom]Personally I'd like to see their MAC addresses banned as well. So if they want to play/try to hack again they need to purchase a new router/modem.[/citation]

That would be great in theory but sadly in practice it doesn't work.

The MAC address is not present a the paquet level, only at the trame level. As soon as you reach a terminal node of the physical link, the trame is discarded and the MAC address is lost. The only thing that travel all the way between 2 node on two different physical network are information at the paquet level and higher on the TCP/IP stack.

I guess Starcraft could read the MAC address of the NIC in the PC but if the guy cheat he probably know how to spoof that. And that's not really at the Modem/Router level...

 

[zorky9]

Well done Blizzard.

 

[razorblaze42]

This is a scam by blizzard. If they want to ban someone lets start with the gold sellers in WOW. All a ban does is force the user to buy another copy of SC2 and create another account... a win-win for Blizzard.

 

[dalta centauri]

[citation][nom]razorblaze42[/nom]This is a scam by blizzard. If they want to ban someone lets start with the gold sellers in WOW. All a ban does is force the user to buy another copy of SC2 and create another account... a win-win for Blizzard.[/citation]
So Blizzard shouldn't do this? It's in their control, if they find a person that shouldn't be allowed to play a copy of their game, then ban them, then make an extra profit at those who learned their lesson and want to play it.

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]soccerplayer88[/nom]Ballin!!! I remember there was a 20+ pages on the forums following a hacker that used the exploit to D/C the opponent with wins around 5-30 seconds. I think he landed around a 89-0 record for 1v1.I seriously don't get why people hack. Sure its fun in a singleplayer game were your overpowered and steamroll the AI. But in a multiplayer environment, it's pretty messed up.Personally I'd like to see their MAC addresses banned as well. So if they want to play/try to hack again they need to purchase a new router/modem.[/citation]

Because they're insecure, pathetic, small, and need a gateway to feel big and powerful. What they fail to realize is that it doesn't help getting girls or a bigger paycheck, so they're left in their miserable sad little world thinking their e-peen is huge. Woh.

 

[xerroz]

[citation][nom]Ramar[/nom]Ow, my pride. =[ Guess I believed it because I've actually met people like that.[/citation]
I feel bad now 🙁... But yeah Ive met that type of people as well, and its hilarious seeing them talk, they think theyre god like

 

[borisof007]

"Why can't they do the same with MW2" Every time I see "mw2" I think Mechwarrior 2. GOD I'M OLD

 

[vir_cotto]

[citation][nom]soccerplayer88[/nom]Ballin!!! I remember there was a 20+ pages on the forums following a hacker that used the exploit to D/C the opponent with wins around 5-30 seconds. I think he landed around a 89-0 record for 1v1.I seriously don't get why people hack. Sure its fun in a singleplayer game were your overpowered and steamroll the AI. But in a multiplayer environment, it's pretty messed up.Personally I'd like to see their MAC addresses banned as well. So if they want to play/try to hack again they need to purchase a new router/modem.[/citation]


On most routers you can just change the MAC address of the router to something else.

 

[eddieroolz]

[citation][nom]david714[/nom]All the cheaters should be connected to a special cheating server when they log in so they would all be together.[/citation]

That would be epic! The battle of cheaters, the best one wins. xD

 

[Matthias99]

[citation][nom]shwick[/nom]Actually banning by mac address wouldn't work.Each ethernet device in between bnet and the gamer replaces the source address field in the ethernet frame with its own mac address.Blizzard would only see the most previous written mac address, which would probably be their gateway or ISP. It would be the same every time.Banning someones IP would work better, but you can still change your IP. I know that if I change my mac address(yes you can change that too) and reconnect it changes my IP.[/citation]

They could have the client read the MAC address of the local system's Ethernet card, and handle it that way. But it wouldn't be that hard to present a fake MAC address to the SC2 client locally. (e.g. an easy approach would be to run the game in a virtual machine environment.)

 

[Guest]

they should do the same to command and conquer yuri's revenge 2. an old game, but a lot of idiots on there accuse other players cheat, when they're not actually cheating. those idiots don't know how to play accuse other cheats.

 

[NewJohnny]

Can we please have the comment votes go past 20? Who's the best person to email about this?

 

[Antimatter79]

[citation][nom]xaero1ne[/nom]cheater all need to be strung up by their private parts from a reallytall tree.[/citation]
Wouldn't an average height tree work just as well?

 

[sslazio77]

since the accounts are tied now with all games i think they should be banned from everything, every single cd-key / wow / whatever binded to their account should be GONE

 

[dextermat]

lol hacking is for losing noobs that are afraid.

Good riddance and good job Blizzard.

 

[shwick]

[citation][nom]YuriAwesome[/nom]they should do the same to command and conquer yuri's revenge 2. an old game, but a lot of idiots on there accuse other players cheat, when they're not actually cheating. those idiots don't know how to play accuse other cheats.[/citation]

Yeah wow I was too busy thinking internet protocol. Yeah they definitely could ban by mac if they read it with sc2.

Is someone that is adept enough to use hacks going to know how to fake their mac address? Definitely possible.