I don't understand where all the hate is coming from. I love Blizzard for doing this and hated them when they didn't do anything against hackers in Warcraft3 in the end.

Hackers destroyed WC3, a game I played for many years, but in the end every other online game I tried to play online, I got either map hacked, disconnect hacked or crash hacked. Blizzard released a patch, a week later there was a new hack
I still like the game, but it became unplayable, it ruined all the fun.

And now SC2 arrived.
And hacks soon after.
The hacking is not only in the single player game by the way.
I was very sad when I saw the first map hacks arrive in SC2 and encounter the first hackers on the ladder. It was so great to read when they banned a lot of players that used the hacks and even better, they are now targeting the hack developers.

Also don't forget that SC2 is aiming to be more than a game. it's aiming to be the no1 e-sports game.
This week a game from old SC1 legend SlayersBoxer returning in a SC2 tournament, with 80k for the winner, was watched on a stream by more than 700,000 people. No joke.
Mostly Koreans, but more and more people outside Korea start liking E-sports as well. People who don't play the game at all watch the tournaments online and like it a lot. Some youtube commentators, who cast games with english commenting, have more than 100k subscribers.
There are even a few americans and europeans now living in Korea as professional gamers, people who earn their living by playing SC2.
It's becoming pretty big.

I would love it if E-sports got as big worldwide as it is in Korea.
But if that's your goal as a game developer you have to get rid of cheaters, like in any sports.
A football player who's caught on doping gets banned too and they will for sure try to find the provider of the doping and get him in a lawsuit as well.

Anyway, on SC2 fan sites almost everyone approves about Blizzard taking action:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=161168

Just thought it would be good to add this info to the discussion

/quits job
/sells house
/leaves wife
/returns to mothers basement

/force chokes noob1, "ShavenWookie"
/force lifts noob2, "SwtorGoldReallyCheapHappyEnding.com"
/slices noob3, "xxxdarthmaul6xxx", with my uberleet dual blade lightsaber skillz,
/totally_owns 4 xwing squadrons with upgraded Slave1TieInterceptor freighter hybrid with a few personal modifications
/orders guild star destroyer around with a few 1000 guildies doing all the boring grind stuff
/orders Gungan genocide
/brags about how I control and own the universe, Leia in gold bikini and a pet Rancor in general chat
/repeat daily for the next years

DROOOOL YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!

/wakes up :(

I guess most Slashdot regulars voted Summer -> Autumn since that anoying season, with the sun shining on your monitor screen the whole day, is finally over.

True, they dumbed the game down too much. But what also killed the fun for pvp in WoW is the battlegrounds and arenas. Because of this there's hardly any pvp in the outside world anymore. Every pvper is just mindlessly grinding Alterac Valley for gear. Warhammer Online promised a lot of outside RvR but unfortunately copied the battlegrounds too. Really looking forward to playing Aion, no battlegrounds, just a lot of outside pvp everywhere.

Probably the same sound they make when you put them in the cat carrier: http://www.murphydog.com/cat-carrier.jpg

The other day a strange fellow with white hair and a white coat in a DeLorean told me this poll would appear on slashdot today. He urged me to suggest to add a certain Dr. Emmet Brown to the list.

Meanwhile the turtle entered the next universe and found a new job in carrying four giant elephants who in turn carry a disc shaped world

Why not totally disconnect Australia until they remove the filter.

Will it finally include rotated/sideways text for column headers? Even IE had this feature for ages.

Don't count on it. There is no US politician yet who can publicly state he is an atheist, or he can forget his further career. Obama did a lot for emancipation of black people, let's just hope that after him there will be female, gay and an atheist presidents too.

Auf Wiedersehen Monty!

Don't worry, I'm one of the other 55% Dutch people, the ninjas. We will beat those pesky pirates.