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I believe that the majority of players will support Blizzard in this. Please read the whole comment before you downvote me ... SC2 players are very competitive

by steve19 16y ago

I believe that the majority of players will support Blizzard in this. Please read the whole comment before you downvote me ... SC2 players are very competitive and trust Blizzard to prevent cheating or devaluing the Battle.net achivement system. Single player games can be played offline (not logged into Battle.net) or played online with cheats. Both of these situations do not reward players with points or Achievements (badges for having accomplished something). Blizzard is banning people who gamed the Battle.net reward system. They are not banning people who played offline or played with built-in cheats. If you mess with Battle.net, you will be banned.

stackthat 16y ago
What you write is totally different from what article says. That article states that Blizzard also bans people who plays offline/single player games, I'm sure everyone is fine with banning online cheaters.
- steve19 16y ago
  tl;dr: The article is deceptive. People where effectively cheating Battle.net. Longer explanation... The cheating appear to be people modifying save game files. They alter the file and give themselves more resources, units, etc. They must have been logged into Battle.net in order for Blizzard to catch them. Single player != Offline in SC2. The only reason to really cheat is to gain Achievements. As I said before, there are cheat codes built into the game[1], they are perfectly legit, but they do not give you any Achievements. This is why people were cheating - to get the benefit of the legit codes, but still gain Battle.net achievements. [1] http://sc2.lancraftwc3.com/2010/04/starcraft-2-cheat-codes.html http://sc2.lancraftwc3.com/2010/04/starcraft-2-cheat-codes.h...
- Tichy 16y ago
  My guess (not owning the game) is this: even for playing offline/single player, you can earn rewards that will show up in Battle.net. So you could be cheating on the online environment by just playing offline.

by steve19 16y ago

stackthat 16y ago

What you write is totally different from what article says. That article states that Blizzard also bans people who plays offline/single player games, I'm sure everyone is fine with banning online cheaters.

steve19 16y ago
tl;dr: The article is deceptive. People where effectively cheating Battle.net. Longer explanation... The cheating appear to be people modifying save game files. They alter the file and give themselves more resources, units, etc. They must have been logged into Battle.net in order for Blizzard to catch them. Single player != Offline in SC2. The only reason to really cheat is to gain Achievements. As I said before, there are cheat codes built into the game[1], they are perfectly legit, but they do not give you any Achievements. This is why people were cheating - to get the benefit of the legit codes, but still gain Battle.net achievements. [1] http://sc2.lancraftwc3.com/2010/04/starcraft-2-cheat-codes.html http://sc2.lancraftwc3.com/2010/04/starcraft-2-cheat-codes.h...
Tichy 16y ago
My guess (not owning the game) is this: even for playing offline/single player, you can earn rewards that will show up in Battle.net. So you could be cheating on the online environment by just playing offline.