Cheating in Starcraft 2 - PSA from Blizzard  | read this item

We haven’t gotten a news post from Blizzard about some huge number of accounts being banned to show their efforts with combating cheating in Starcraft 2.  Seems that might change in the future as Blizzard post a short Public Service Announcement concerning the nature of what they consider cheating.  Specifically, they pointed the criteria they would be using going forward to identify exploiters and hackers.

In a blog posted just a few minutes ago, they gave us their definition of cheating in Starcraft 2.  They also let us know maybe a be less than subtly that bans and suspensions would be coming down the pipes very soon.  So, if you’ve fallen to the darkside of gameplay and don’t play fair, this is probably a good chance to repent and get rid of all those hacks.

Here’s what Blizzard had to say:

Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating in any form in Blizzard games very seriously, and that’s no different for 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.

Playing StarCraft II legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client. Doing otherwise violates our policies for Battle.net, and it goes against the spirit of fair play that all of our games are based on. We strongly recommend that you avoid using any hacks, cheats, or exploits. Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future.

Who else is excited that Blizzard is picking up the pace on getting the bans out?