Microsoft, Blizzard Crack Down On Piracy, Cheating

Microsoft has confirmed that they've been wielding the banhammer lately over modifications to the Xbox 360 which allow players to run pirated games. Xbox Live's Major Nelson said the action would also void the warranty on the offending console, and that Microsoft will "continue to employ and bolster anti-piracy security measures to counter piracy in the gaming industry and improve security in the Xbox LIVE community." Meanwhile, Blizzard dealt with 350,000 of their own problem users on Battle.net, saying simply that they wouldn't tolerate cheating. This is likely one of many steps to clean up the system before it gets revamped for use with StarCraft II.

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Cheating is why I quit playing Warcraft III online, and well, Warcraft altogether. In Warcraft II the maximum level any unit could have was, IIRC, 5(2 weapon upgrades and 2 armor upgrades), but it was pretty commonplace to have level 16 grunts mow through groups of ogres.... Not to mention the ubiquitous map hacks and whatnot. Warcraft III was pretty much the same. That coupled with moving out of the dorms(where my friends and I would play LAN games) pretty much caused me to get out of Blizzard games altogether.

Blizzard, at least in my opinion, was doing almost nothing to stop cheating.