My friend just got it too and hadn't been on in ages, barely turned on the bot last night for 10 mins while messing around with a rotation thing. Just got the email. I havent used HB since I got my account back myself.
I just lost 3 accounts, all of which were heavily botted. leveled 25 toons to 90/100, farmed about 500k gold, mass invited to guild, ran CR's in PvP, basically everything. Time to try and refund Legion, and all the shit I bought off the buddy store.
So I'm at work when I get the email to my cell. I login to battle net and it shows my account is still active? Weird
They were indeed gathering data from a long time. I got my 1st ban in 7 years. The last time I botted was 3 days ago, and I bot around... once per week (or less). I ve never been found by any player, so they can actually detect HB.
Mine also shows as active in the account screen. If I try to login I get the 182 day 20 hours 20 minute ban countdown though.
That's a pretty bad way to treat the buddy store developers in my opinion. This hits us just as hard.
Got one of 5 accounts banned today. I was botting it pretty heavily, but I'm running 2 other bot accounts right now and neither of them were banned.
6 month ban just now, different account. Very tempted to just give up blizz and not pay them another dime