It's not really a press release. It's way more serious than that. Blizzard has sent around to us press guys the same thing they've also posted to their forums. It reads, very simply, as follows:
Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating in any form in Blizzard games very seriously, and that's no different for StarCraft II. If a StarCraft II player is found to be cheating or using hacks or modifications in any form, then as outlined in our end user license agreement, that player can be permanently banned from the game. This means that the player will be permanently unable to log in to Battle.net to play StarCraft II with his or her account.On one hand, as a guy who has a hard enough time winning against people who play fair, I love that Blizzard takes this so seriously. On the other hand, shutting people out of the game they paid $60 to play is pretty harsh. But mostly the thing I said first about loving how Blizzard takes this so seriously.
Playing StarCraft II legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client. Doing otherwise violates our policies for Battle.net, and it goes against the spirit of fair play that all of our games are based on. We strongly recommend that you avoid using any hacks, cheats, or exploits. Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future.
Also, I hope they can fix this annoying little trick that gets you 7% more minerals.
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