{"id":39620,"date":"2012-06-13T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=39620"},"modified":"2012-06-13T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T10:35:43","slug":"several-thousand-diablo-iii-cheaters-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/39620-several-thousand-diablo-iii-cheaters-banned","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Several thousand&#8221; Diablo III cheaters banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making good on their sworn oath of swift retribution yesterday, Blizzard&#8217;s banhammer team has been busy battling evil on the Diablo III servers, resulting in &#8220;several thousand&#8221; bans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recently issued a round of account suspensions and bans to several thousand Diablo III players who were in violation of the Battle.net Terms of Use for cheating and\/or using botting or hacking programs while playing,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to undermining the spirit of fair play that\u2019s essential to everyone\u2019s enjoyment of the game, botting, hacking, and other such exploitive behavior can contribute to stability and performance issues with the Battle.net service. As always, maintaining a stable, safe, and fun online-gaming experience for legitimate players is a top priority for us, and we\u2019ll be continuing to keep watch on Battle.net and take action as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the mighty power of the Heavens, the Burning Hells, and Diablo III&#8217;s always-online DRM, banned players are permanently locked out of their Battle.net accounts. <em>So mote it be.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/38542-diablo-iii-review-pc.html\">Diablo III review (PC)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Diablo III real money auction house launched in America\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39618-diablo-iii-real-money-auction-house-launched-in-america.html\"><strong>Diablo III real money auction house launched in America<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39593-blizzard-warns-that-diablo-iii-bans-will-begin-in-the-near-future.html\">Blizzard warns that Diablo III bans \u201cwill begin in the near future\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38929-german-retailer-lists-diablo-iii-for-ps3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>German retailer lists Diablo III for PS3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38809-blizzard-offices-raided-on-back-of-diablo-iii-refund-refusal.html\">Blizzard offices raided on back of Diablo III refund refusal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Man dies while playing Diablo III\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38404-man-dies-while-playing-diablo-iii.html\" target=\"_blank\">Man dies while playing Diablo III<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37908-diablo-iiis-secret-level-is-over-the-rainbow.html\">Diablo III\u2019s secret level is over the rainbow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"All Diablo III news coverage\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/tag\/diablo-iii\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>All Diablo III news coverage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bust!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":39632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[665,667,4948,4950,4949,1799,4629,4947,4630,21,2219],"class_list":["post-39620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-blizzard","tag-diablo-3","tag-diablo-3-banning","tag-diablo-3-cheating","tag-diablo-3-hack","tag-diablo-iii","tag-diablo-iii-auction-house","tag-diablo-iii-banning","tag-diablo-iii-error-37","tag-headline","tag-megarom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39633,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39620\/revisions\/39633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}