"Several Thousand" D3 account bans/suspensions

[phantom325]

We recently issued a round of account suspensions and bans to several thousand Diablo® III players who were in
violation of the Battle.net® Terms of Use for cheating and/or using botting or hacking programs while playing.
In addition to undermining the spirit of fair play that’s essential to everyone’s enjoyment of the game, botting, hacking, and other such exploitive behavior
can contribute to stability and performance issues with the Battle.net service. As always, maintaining a stable, safe, and fun online-gaming experience for
legitimate players is a top priority for us, and we'll be continuing to keep watch on Battle.net and take action as needed.

As mentioned by HI5 in a previous article, they did indeed have a huge list of flagged accounts. However, due to the mass amounts of people
that were banned, we can come to the conclusion that they were already going to ban these botters, but wanted to have a big enough
group of players as to make an impact.

The thing that worries me is the line, "we'll be continuing to keep watch on Battle.net and take action as needed." Of course they will continue to
catch botters, especially due to the RMAH being out, but that line could have more meaning behind it. Blizzard did not say we will be continuing to watch
for bots, but rather Battle.net as a whole.

What does that mean? Well, they could be monitoring for things other than bots, such as AutoIt scripts. When it comes to Blizzard though, you never
know, so it looks like we'll just have to wait and see. My current advice to all botters out there is to either lay low, or make sure the bot you
are using has very good warden protection, because it seems like Blizzard is very serious about bots, at least for the time being.

[Jaerin]

Has there been any significant evidence of these thousands of accounts? Only thing I've seen is a dozen or so posts on HB claiming it.

I'd like to see where these people are crying ban because I just don't see it.

[phantom325]

Has there been any significant evidence of these thousands of accounts? Only thing I've seen is a dozen or so posts on HB claiming it.

I'd like to see where these people are crying ban because I just don't see it.

The quote came from a Blizzard CM, Zarhym. Now, he could be lying to assuage the fears of some legitimate players, but Blizzard generally does not lie about these sorts of things.

[Jaerin]

I don't disagree with you, but several thousand Asian accounts wouldn't much matter to us in the US or EU.

I just find it hard to believe it was a bot when the 4 big ones aren't really showing much evidence of it other than the small blip at HB.

[stealthingyew]

where was this orginally posted i didn't see it on the blue tracker. nvm it was a while ago and i didnt look that far down.
if anyone cares the direct link is
Diablo® III Players Banned - Forums - Diablo III