Honorbuddy Announcement 21th May 2015

I think the risk % has just risen. This sucks really that you guys could not detect how HB was really found out. Blizzard has a gun pointed right at us, its a matter of when they want to shoot again. We always had a risk in botting but we had control of our risk % now its a flip of a coin. I will bot on a farming account using special services, just to see how far I will get on it but never again on my main network or pcs. poop! Blizzard it took you long enough but still got us in the end.

 

on a certain unnanmed website that offers an unofficial version of HB they were able to make honorbuddy available to select users post-banwave and those users reported that their accounts were banned, which strongly implies the detection is still active.

this is not good news

 

Iv'e got banned for 6 months sucks pretty hard....

All i did was leveling toons to 100 and do PVP, but yeah fuck it il do it again as soon i get opend i know the risks of botting haha.

 

I wanted to try my luck to get a relook at my accounts they cancel my ticket in about 5 mins of writing it lol Ah well guess I gotta wait 6 months for my main accounts. I have 5 farming accounts rdy to bot again.

 

Please be done til tomorrow it's weekend! :/

 

"End of the week" can easily be sundaynight at 11pm European Time lol

 

Well you guys will be the test subject of you guys got banned then you know it's not working. I think HB should run a character and do a full bot and check for abnormality as it play. As I said it's kind of weird that they banned all of us in one fell swoop. I think something have change on May programming.

 

still sucks that they dont know what hit em.

also why release one now? In 2-3 -4 weeks 6.2 hits.

why not take more time to investigate / find out?

Seems like money is the key here?

Ofc we are not safe and never where. but the % got up now i guess.

 

This is great news! I'm cutting my toe nails later.

 

In which way is tripwire improved?

I`m fine with the whole situation. I guess we will see some ban-reports after the new hb-release(or not :X)

 

Hey guys and thank you for sharing some informations which you gathered throughout your investigations.
My guess on all that stuff happened on May 13th is as following:

Imagine, there's Blizz always "carrying" a list of potential botters which they would like to ban. And this list is filled by us, as users, through our trust in CRs and profiles we use - nearly daily. So Blizz takes those hints and collects them. The "list" gets longer and longer. In this case, this could have been prepared for years. Some of us reported, that they did have a break during the last months. But they maybe were detected ages ago. In the end, all comes to the point, that Blizz has this list and knows, that we feel some sort of "safe" - always remember: you act against their agreements, no one is safe.

Then they lost a lawsuit against Bossland. And what's the best way to care a burning wound? Yep. Hurt the one who has hurted you. So they pressed the button and the banwave got us.

But how did Blizz detect us?
Simple, for my guess.

Let's imagine we all had accounts with at least 3 endlevel chars on it (100, 90 respectively back in MoP). And we used Kicks Profiles or some sort oft. Due to the open forums, even Blizz can have an eye into those scripts. In the end of the day, they simply watched some routes (and we all know, it looks stupid enough, if 20 chars run around the same spots over and over again) and flagged those people right after the character creation. And we all know, Kicks profiles sometimes walk a little strange in some situations. And those situations were exact the same. On every character botted with those profiles. Nonetheless they simply hat to script an "automatic flag a character as bot, as soon as he hits an amount X of checkpoints, which were most commonly used by those scripts".

Hope you can follow my thoughts

Still, I am happy to become the best DPS in my raid once again

Cheers

 

YAYYYY thank you for saving me from broken bots! I can't wait!!!!! this made my fucking day!

 

great news....

i think that hb was not detected but blizzard apply 6 month ban for player reports, they also ban ip....but they don't have really proof that we are botting.
we have the feeling that it's a hb ban cause most of botters are uning hb.....
in my case i have 3 X 6 month account ban, one of them never bot....( i wrote a letter 2 days ago to bliz juridics dpt to unban this EU account....)
i think i have player report and they ban all my account with same ip....

sorry for my english...

 

Of course money is key here, Bossland GMBH is a business like any other. If you wait another 2/3/4 weeks, you will lose a lot more potential customers.

 

Meh...

I see HB going the way of the HB team's Rift bot now.

A couple more banwaves and the HB team will throw in the towel, just like they did with Rift. The team admitted that they had no idea how they were being detected with that bot, too.

 

This ban wave is very strange, boting 8 hours/day with 3 account in same time on same computer, 1 of this account already get a 48 hours ban advice.
So i haven't got any account banned on this ban wave... luck?
Got a friend who stopper wow 3 week before ban wave and get ban 6 month... so?
i think they apply ban on most report character, so far.

/regards

 

Last time I played was 21st March and I am not banned. I've used HB quite a long time and completely afked several characters to lv90 (few 100), and used combat routines daily for everything I do. Did some afk mining and herbalism sometimes when I went to sleep as well. So they certainly don't have information from many months/years.

In my opinion after losing there court case they have injected something to scan task manager perhaps, to get revenge on Bossland and hurt him this way. The hope will be to strike fear into people and stop them from botting again. Announce big numbers like 100k. They haven't not detected it for all this time to suddenly detect it. It's all to much of a coincidence. Theres to many people not banned to conclude it was fully detected.

 

Well i dont think Bossland will drop honorbuddy as easy as they did with rift-bot, since honorbuddy is one of their main bots(my opinion).

 

this is great news about HB returning, invested quite a bit of money in some of the developers store products. doubt i'll use a main account again but i'll sure have a backup plan this time

 

I got mixed feelings about this.

Should I be getting another wow account under the same email, merge in the same battle.net, transfer some characters and bot on that new account?