It does need to be addressed. I'm a veteran wow botter and have been botting for 5+ year since the early days of wowglider/mmo glider. My first ban/getting caught... guess it has to happen some time lol It does seem blizzard has implemented a script for find suspicious activity that leads to a high probability of botting. The one thing that does catch my eye is the REASON for the ban. anyone have any insight on this lingo?
I received this exact same ban on 5 accounts that I was quest botting on. Happened just now. However, the account I was BGbotting on was not banned.
Explain I got both my account banned at the same time, like above never been banned before and cant figure out for the life of me what has changed for them to bann me now. What was I doing? Running lazy raider in scenarioes with people I know and lazyraider dailies.
If it was truly detectable, there would be 1000's of ban reports. Something IS up though, since I had one account done for third party software after literally only 40 mins of mining on a clean account.
my first ban was "hacks" too. i appealed three times and it was overturned twice but the third was the one that finally banned it. So maybe they are finding a way to detect us but maybe not. We can only know when a official ban wave hits us when 100+ people are banned on the same day
I appealed and they both got unbanned. I am almost 100% they have a script running now to detect who is "more than" likely botting. Then the accounts are flagged and investigated. I just wish i could tell which aspect of the bot they are looking into (quest order), repetitive Grind spot pathing, ect... thats the problem with computers/bots, they are repetitive and predictable, and thats what blizzard is using for detecting :-/. Rather than 100% sure fire memory detecting of the past (leading to permi ban, ban waves)
I think HB is to popular now... since pirox got ownd! I liked the time where hb wasnt "BOT NO.1" in the botting scene.... I still got any ban since 4+ years of botting. Greetings Monty
Pretty bold statement. If HB in itself was detectable (like the second it attaches to wow they know) Don't you think they would just mass ban everyone ? Why would they not ? Care to elaborate on the "its detectable" part ? I'm genuinly curious on how they detect and what measures they are allowed to use and not. Saw hawker mention they track hdd serial number which feels bit like privacy intrusion :-/ I know very little about programming
I have been running my accounts 24/7 and have yet to get a ban wave of course i switch stuff up and manually play sometimes
If honorbuddy is detecable, i don't think they would ban every single account. Not a chanse! Ofcourse they have a banwave sometime, when it get's out of control (like it is now, just look in the BG:s) Still, i don't think they would ban everyone, even if you were "cougt" in the banwave. They must have banwaves, so the WoW community get's notified that they have banned "all botters". I think that ATLEAST 10% are botters what play WoW. maybe 6-7% will buy WoW again, the other 3% wont.. How much is 3% out of 10 million. 300k people = shitlot of money for blizz.
The publicity of an all in banwave coupled with what they make in terms of keeping their real player base happy is likely worth more to blizzard than a few subs. And if they dont ban enough to make a difference how will the community know of any difference ? random numbers without any facts are incredible pointless as they have no value. :-/
