Part 6: RTW Success, but sad news for SC2

Today I'd like to hit on a small success story for the Death2Botters blog. RTW, while not approving of the blog, did take the cheating sites' memberlists I sent them and compare the lists to game subscribers. Here's information from one banned user who tried to get his account back, but had the door slammed in his face by RTW.

While only one user posted about this experience with RTW comparing the membership lists of cheat sites, I will assume that others were banned this way too. I would like to thank some of the people who helped me scrub through the lists from different sites for forum usernames and in-game usernames to be highlighted in the report sent to RTW.

Sad News for Starcraft 2

The hacking community has had access to Starcraft 2 throughout their beta and have already published and begun selling their hack to customers by the time SC2 was released. While not as popular as FPS aimbots, SC2 has gotten its share of attention on 2 of the hacking sites I monitor. One site (the one I use for display purposes) has had moderate success in hacking the game and recieved a fair number of new members since the game released. It is safe to assume the majority of new members within a few weeks of a major game release are subscribing for that game. Trolls take note: I said majority, not all. Dispute all you want.

Since my first post that showed the nearly 2000 people that joined one site in the APB time frame, this particular site has blocked its members list from being searched and collected like I had previously done, so I cannot offer you numbers on SC2, but I would estimate roughly 100 new members joining for the SC2 cheat, and who knows how many previous members use the cheat without reading the forums.

I also wanted to include a shot on Aion, as the game originally had a huge 3rd party bot problem at its release. The Aion development team spent countless hours on preventing these types of hack/botting programs from entering the game, and while hugely successful (entire guilds were shut down), there still remains a botting community of decent size for the game. Note that while Aion has collected this many posts and views over the course of a year, it barely keeps up with the numbers APB had in its first month.

Finally, onto those of you who continue to say that this site merely advertises for these cheaters and cheat sites and makes the problem worse. Take close note of this: The cheaters are bothered by this site and its contents. They often make posts about the Death2Botters blog with increasing concern. The information that this blog contains as well as the information I've provided to RTW has forced the cheat sites to take security measures to attempt to protect their members by blocking member searched. It has caused them to change their hacks' injection methods and functionality, and has shown would-be hackers that those that are hacking, are getting banned (however slowly). Numbers of people subscribing to the hack sites (for APB) after the creation of this blog declined sharply. Whether or not that is because of lack of interest in APB, or partially influenced by this blog is unsure.

Until next time readers,

The San Paro Saint