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Blizzard Axe 50,000 WarCraft accounts - 6.6.05

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Warcraft III: Frozen ThroneBlizzard Entertainment announced that it has closed 53,928 Warcraft III battle.net accounts from online play.

We will continue to monitor Battle.net for cheating and take action as needed. As always, thank you for your continued support; with your help we have been able to keep Battle.net a fun and safe place to play Blizzard games.E

The banning comes amid a wave of cheating and hacking to gain status in the online RTS, which the company says it will not tolerate.

Most of the aforementioned accounts were closed due to reported hacking or cheating during a WarCraft III multiplayer session. 8,168 of the accounts have also been banned from ladder play for one month, whereas only 3,331 were permanently removed.
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