Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Message Board  

My condolences to all banned players.

Already have the archivement all off them And i use the trainer no big deal banning people on single wtf the can never know what iam running in the background however. The can see only the time in game when you compleet a game in 0:23 and you won its for sure you cheat Just take 10 min a break and end the misions no big deal. Do it today now just 20 sec ago i beat the map again ban lol not. Blizzard need to stfu.

I haven't gotten a chance to play Starcraft 2 that much yet. Is there a way to play the Single Player Story mode and Skirmish mode offline? I have a wireless connection, so I can just disconnect my PC from the Internet whenever I want to. Can I get banned if I only play the game offline? Also, since I registered the game to my account, is there any way to remove my game's license key from my account (so I can sell the game to someone)? I don't want whoever buys it to have access to my Battle.net account. Any info on this stuff would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

As far as offline mode goes, there's Guest Mode. I'm not sure if that's the same thing, though. For your other questions, I don't know. Sorry.

I was neither banned/suspended and receive no email correspondence however upon checking my account i see my achievements have been deleted, all of them lol. Seriously banning ppl due to achievement hacking? Blizzard have made a mistake imo, if i was banned i would hate them for life and torrent their games out of spite.

oww i guess i got lucky, i " accidentally" played multiplayer one time while 3 options of the trainer where active!

guess i slipped through the checks

UpDate From Blizzard.

"Blizzard Entertainment is not banning StarCraft II players just for using single-player cheats. There’s been some confusion in the last couple of days about the suspensions and bans meted out to players caught cheating in StarCraft II. It’s important to point out first, that many of the 3rd-party hacks and cheats developed for StarCraft II contain both single- and multiplayer functionality. In order to protect the integrity of multiplayer competition, we are actively detecting cheat programs used in multiplayer modes whether there are human opponents or not.
That said, players who opt to use any type of 3rd party hacks do so at their own risk — there are already built-in cheat codes for StarCraft II single-player that can be used safely. Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating seriously and will continue to aggressively crackdown on players who cheat in our games."

In one thread and

We are not banning players for using single-player cheats.

The confusion all comes from an inaccurate statement that we think cheating in single player negatively affects achievements or some such. Not the case. I don't even know if the person who this story is based on actually got banned, but if they did, it's because they were using a hack inside a multiplayer game.

I would recommend that if you want to cheat in single player StarCraft II games, use the ones we put in there. A lot of the hacks out there work in both single and multi. If you get a third party hack and intend to only use it for single player, and then go play a mutiplayer game with it still on, you're bound to get tagged.

[Edited by SIL3NT-DE4TH, 10/13/2010 2:03:28 PM]

Apparently they didn't read the following official email from Blizzard support:




We announced on Sep 14, 2010 5:04:38 PM UTC that we would begin taking a stance against Cheating in StarCraft II (Cheating in StarCraft II - StarCraft II). Upon further review of the action taken upon this account we see that a third-party program was detected several times after the posting this notification. Unfortunately we have determined that our original findings were accurate and the actions that were taken were in line with our current policies.

The Terms of Use state that you may not engage in exploitative activities. Any breach of these terms can result in an account penalty ranging from a warning to closure of the account or accounts associated with the activity, based on the severity of the infraction and how often a player has violated our policies in the past. While single player campaigns may only appear to be you and a computer at first, your achievements and gamer score also caries weight and prestige for your online play. Please understand that we do not reach this decision lightly. This action has been taken in accordance with our Terms of Use. (Blizzard Entertainment: Battle.net Terms of Use).
For privacy and security reasons, we are unable to disclose specific methods used for or the evidence obtained from one of our investigations.

We hope this has cleared up any concerns you may have and expect no further communication on this matter. Thank you for your time and understanding of our position.

Regards,
Game Master Valakith
Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Support


[Edited by PWizard, 10/13/2010 2:31:30 PM]