04-02-2003, 05:30 PM
Perhaps I'm just a conspiracy theorist, but I wonder if perhaps Blizzard had ulterior motives in deleting all those accounts. What always comes back to me is the fact that Battle.net is a service that is provided free to users, with Blizzard footing the bill. I wonder if deleting all those accounts was in fact an attempt to kill two birds with one stone: attempt to appear tough on the "haX0rs", and lessen the load on the servers. It would be really interesting to see exactly how they decided which accounts to delete. Did they have some kind of automatic detection system, or did they rely on other players reporting the villains?