Question : Are they really banned?

[jimbo]

computer illiterate person has arrived

computer nerd has arrived

[SilverIceForum]

there is nothing more to discuss in this topic, in short yes they may be account banned, ip banned; but there is no "end-game ban" to end all bans if thats what your pondering. thats due to the overwhelming number of proxy IPs in the service region, you would see 0 spammers ingame if they could effectively end a clients ability to join the game after a ban.


edit: im surprised they didnt add an unique encrypted key to the setup.exe on each download, to prevent that client from accessing online play after its been flagged as abusing tos, regardless of IP. in the end that would only slow down each repeated access attempt, given they could just re-download the .exe as you probably wont see any hardware ID determining the setup.exes' unique key...its pretty much not worth the effort i guess..

You know, I like how you think there. Some unique random sequence attached to the executable code on install based on the OS's random seed it generated at boot up, and couple other hash numbers of UIDs from the hardware at install stored in the install directory or part of the executable's registry key. Pinpointing the exact box that is offending. Still would take a lot of coding to do it, not to mention still be expensive to deploy.