Blizzard of Cheaters Banned
Noah Shachtman,
Wired News,
Sept 12, 2002
It's a record of some sort. Blizzard Entertainment, the developers of the online multi-user game Warcraft III, suspended 14,000 players for cheating in what is reported to be "the largest mass banning in the history of computer gaming." It's certainly the largest - by far - that I've ever seen. "Cheating in online games threatens the shared basis of the world," Kurt Squire, senior editor of Joystick101, a gaming site, wrote in an e-mail. "If cheating becomes too rampant, accomplishment loses meaning. Communities like (Blizzard's) run on a shared faith in the system, and threats to it should be taken seriously."
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