A few weeks ago a tool was released that allows unsavoury people to run hacks without detection from the iCCup launcher. Private hacks have always existed and always will, we never fooled ourselves saying that the launcher is a perfect defense. We were just trying to lower the quantity of people using forbidden software.
We don't blame those who hacks the game, because only hacking allows game to improve after game developers quits developing it. Without hacking we won't be able to have such a great thing as lan latency. In the early days of StarCraft there were many more tools, like obsmode, first person replays etc. We have to be thankful for the hacking community for giving us these things. Unfortunately, when some hacks leaks or are released to public there will always be people who use it not for having fun with friends which is the main goal of them, but for gaining an unfair advantage in competitive gaming, ladders, tournaments, leagues, etc. Whats the point of having an icon without having any skill to back it up? If you want to play with automine — just play without anti-hack. It isn't so hard to find a game.
The hack in question was heavily publicised, potentially leading to a wider spread.
A few days ago we updated our anti-hack. It so happened that we were able to do this without a massive, publically announced update. Like ninjas, we stealthily added some hack checks and voila — a list of hackers started filing in. And so we, like a hunting tiger, started waiting for our victims. As a result we locked over 250 accounts. Also, we are presenting you the full list of hackers caught by us. Although there are some 'famous' names like imjiraya, iG.SeouL, MGMT, iG.Voltron, Much, St)Vasilisk( and evets-x17 to name a few, it mostly consists of some smurf accounts. We will be identifying real accounts of such players and reveal it to the public in time.
Breakdown of Hackers:
~Roughly 10 accounts
~Roughly 30 accounts
~Over 200 accounts
See the hall of shame. The full list of accounts detected with hacks.
No Excuses...
Since our check is not perfect there is still the possibility of playing a game with hacks and getting your points. But, in case you are in this list — there is no other explanation but hacking. It may be just an APM counter or some spoofing tool — no-one cares, because if we will start futher investigation we are pretty sure that we will find no-one from the list using maphack except our tech crew. Every prisoner is innocent, you know. I am pretty sure that we will have some comments like 'your software is bugged, me no hack, etc.'. Answering this before it was posted: Fact that you never got any problems with launcher before and managed to play a lot of games and suddenly started having problems with some small check being implemented is very convenient.