Blizzard bans 350,000 Battle.net accounts ahead of Lich King launch

Posted Nov 12th 2008 7:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, MMO, RPG, RTS, Starcraft II, World of Warcraft, Diablo III

We are now less than 24 hours from the "official" launch of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (although at least a few 7-Eleven stores have already jumped the gun and sold some copies to folks). However it looks like Blizzard decided to do some house cleaning ahead of the launch of their fantasy MMO expansion.

Blizzard's Battle.net site reports that in an effort to reduce cheating on their online service, Blizzard has banned over 350,000 Battle.net accounts. These folks were banned for their actions in Starcraft and Diablo II. In addition the CD keys for Diablo II found to be used with the closed accounts won't work for 30 days. While technically this has nothing to do with World of Warcraft the timing could be to get people ready for plans to have players sign into one Battle.net account to play all of Blizzard's current and upcoming games, including Starcraft II and Diablo III.

Gallery: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Tags: battle.net, blizzard, blizzard-entertainment, diablo-ii, diablo-iii, starcraft, starcraft-ii, world-of-warcraft, wrath-of-the-lich-king

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Oh, look, an opportunity to mention WoTLK in a news post half a dozen or so more times :PPosted at 7:45AM on Nov 12th 2008 by Sokkratez

Stupid is as Stupid does Stupid plays World of Warcraft . as if anyone with a iq above 12 cares about this game .Posted at 3:44AM on Nov 13th 2008 by FG

Got cut off to fast , There isnt 350,000 starcraft and d2 players combined , so this is total BS .Posted at 3:46AM on Nov 13th 2008 by FG

is something wrong with my email bacause ionly got it recently??Posted at 9:21AM on Nov 23rd 2008 by perijr