320.000 comptes bannis de Battle.net

Une nouvelle vague de sanctions à l'encontre des utilisateurs ne respectant pas les conditions d'utilisation du service. La dernière remontait à novembre 2008 il était donc grand temps de faire un peu de ménage sur la plateforme de jeu multijoueur de Blizzard. Cette fois-ci ce sont 320.000 comptes Warcraft 3 et Diablo 2 qui ont été pris la main dans le pot de confiture.

Blizzard rappelle à cette occasion que l'utilisation abusive des mécaniques de jeu (exploit) ou le recours à des  programmes tiers constituent une violation des "Terms of use".

Les comptes fermés le sont définitivement sans possibilité de retour en arrière. En revanche les clés CD bannies peuvent l'être temporairement (30 jours) ou définitivement en cas de récidive.

We’ve recently banned over 320,000 Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts that were found to be violating the Battle.net Terms of Use. If this is a first offense, the CD key associated with the banned account will be suspended for 30 days, while repeat offenders will see their keys banned permanently. All account ban decisions are final.

We would like all players to remember that abuse of unintended mechanics and/or use of third party programs is a violation of the agreement made when signing on to Battle.net, and can subject your account to disciplinary action up to and including a permanent ban of its access to the service. These types of activities can severely impact the stability of our servers, and we’ll continue to aggressively monitor Battle.net in order to protect the service and its players from the harmful effects of cheating.

Many account closures come as the direct result of tips emailed to our hacks team by legitimate Battle.net users. If you come across a hack, find a site responsible for distributing hacks, or have a replay of a newly available hack, please report this to our hacks team at hacks@blizzard.com or through our Hacks Report Form.

As always, thank you for your continued support, and we'll see you on Battle.net!

Pour plus d'infos sur les sanctions je vous propose de consulter ce petit mémo rédigé lors de la dernière vague de bannissement.