Diablo III cheaters face permanent bans

It's nice to see them crack down on cheaters, however, what I don't agree with is that by banning them from battlenet, they essentially have a piece of software that is now totally useless since they can't even play offline in single player mode (as in Diablo I/II).  I just don't agree with their tyrannical hold on their software, not even allowing you access to it without logging into their server. - how would you like it if Windows or OSX requires you to log into their servers every time you boot your system?

why would you even cheat online? sados

More proof the of the intensive SHILLING. Cheaters and mods will be banned LOL. SHOULD HAVE NOT MADE THIS AND ONLINE experience. Karma is a B****

Blizzard fails me now... They promised that the DRM would "get rid of the hacker and bring the customer a cleaner gaming environment". Big fail of the year

awww no secret cow level :(

Diablo cheaters eh?  surely you're talking about Blizzard trololol

Next up: GTA players will be banned for using cheats.

Anyone who takes the time to take a half glance at the TOS for the game knows its not legal to "hack or reverse engineer" the game.  When you buy a game you dont OWN the game to do with as you please.  You own a "permit" to play the game in the manner its meant to be played in.  Cheating in the single player mode of a game is one thing: your only hurting yourself and your only taking the risk of wrecking your own game.  Online cheating is a different matter. 

People who claim they bought the game they own it they can do what are chlidish and need to reach the age of 10 before spouting off an opinion on this.

People still play D3? Lulz.

Is this game as fun as DII or what?

so did the rmah go live? i need some more drama to read about.

minecraft lets you cheat all the time :D all trolling aside i am on the fence about this i mean on one side its a good thing cause i hate cheaters but on the other side your basically saying you dont own this game its ours and we can ban you at any time my question is if your hacked and the person gets you banned for cheating what do you do then or are you just SOL 

This gets an article, but Blizzard implementation of a new feature that limits a players time spent in the game isn't?

There are dozens of forum threads of pissed of customers because they can't play the game how they like.  If you get an AFKer, a crappy team, bots, farmers, or people who want to be carried, you would leave the game and join another one like a sane person.

But now Blizzard doesn't want you to do that.  You are now limited by the amount of games you enter and leave, and after you reached the secret limit (which is small) the game bans you from playing for around 15mins.

Diablo 3 didn't deserve an 8.5 at all and Gamespot needs to do a follow-up article on the current state of the game, and on the backlash of pissed of customers Blizzard has now generated.

Hah cheaters already? I got bored of Diablo 3 after a week so I don't really care

Don't you just love how cheating on the single player portion of the game can get you perma-banned from the game you paid good money for?

If they cheat on the online portion then they should be warned once and then banned from online play if the issue persists, unfortunately due to Blizzards love of always-online DRM this just wouldn't work, unless they release an offline patch, which will never happen.

I play single player all the time, and who the heck did not use battle.net in D2? only cheaters. So online only makes perfect sense. Lol @ open battle.net

even if you buy the game you cannot use it even for single player? this is ridiculous...

ProTip:

I solved the whole "online Single player" issue very easily.  I didnt buy D3!  hahah  

Yeah, stick it to them please. I am not sure if From did something like this for Dark Souls, if not of course they should. May be a little late now. They should also try to do something about the people who only seem to fight by backstabbing. How is that any fun? I would never, ever do that. Stick it to all cheaters hard across all games and you will have less of it. Not all will go away, but it would be better.

This is one of the main reasons why I don't 'multiplay' as I'm not sure if it's skill or simply cheating people get where they are.

It's really damned simple.  You make single-player single-player-ONLY, and you make multi-player multi-player-ONLY.  No items may be traded between the two types of games.  The multiplayer stuff gets stored on the Blizzard servers, and the single-player stuff is stored on the local hard drive (and can be hacked with impunity since you can't trade gold or items to someone else at all).  That would solve the problem.  No injecting duped gold or other items, since Blizzard's servers would be watched like a hawk...sort of like casino security watching for card counters.  Come on, Blizzard, admit you made a huge damned mistake, and put single player back where it belongs - on the local hard drive.  I don't like playing multiplayer, especially not the other night when I had a damned 775 ms ping time to google.com.  I was getting killed almost continuously because of net lag.  I hate it.

I don't know what was worst about them cheating with the exploit, that they acquired crazy amount of gold or that if they were not banned before today, they would of used that crazy amount of gold to buy top tier items to resell for real money and make a killing off the people who buy from the real money auction house. As I said before they deserve to be banned for there crimes simple as that.

Doesnt cheating diminish your sense of accomplishment?

As they should. Cheaters ruin it for everybody. I decided to pop in COD World at War the other day, when I noticed I was emptying a clip into a opponent, he stopped, turned to look at me, slowly walked up to me, and knifed me! He was doing this the whole while I was shooting him! I put that game in for a change of pace, or a different COD game that I liked, only to be turned off by the cheating. Sad really.

Yeah, good luck...  :P

Everything you do in singleplayer transfers over to the multiplayer componet of diablo 3. If they allowed people to hack when they play alone in "single-player", than those people can carry the items that they got in singleplayer over to multiplayer. Which would lead to people hacking and making ridiculously good gear to sell on the auction house, and it would eventually ruin the game because of over saturation on the market with gear with ridiculous stats. 

There's a site offering around 1M for 2$. Is that a cheating?

aw come on people, stop cheating!

what, don't you see how that breaks the auction house's usefulness?

the spice must flow :((

How about perma account bans for the gold selling and powerleveling services that literally spam at 10-20 different names like a min and thanks to blizzard putting in a global chat service?

Hmm how bout you prove your not totally incomptent or is blizzard just running these things now in the background? Its not like you didnt have WoW forever to realize these people exist and do these things. 

Banning people from playing their legally obtained SP games should not be permitted. even EA don't do that on Origin any more and the fact Blizzard is doing so is ridiculous. Don't buy into this people and those that have should demand a refund.