Bot Ban Megathread

oeroo · 3 時間前

Time to have fun in BGs! :D

internetvictim · 2 時間前

Mate and I queued for a lvl 100, and for the first time encountered bots. The healer (priest) and a warlock. Whoever coded that bot had no fucking clue because we wiped so many times whilst waiting for the kick timeout to clear.

It'd be really nice if bliz implemented an on-demand Captcha.

Say you suspect someone of botting, everyone votes "that looks like a bot", that person gets a game relevant Captcha to complete. Put a cooldown on it and require a minimum number of votes to prevent abuse, and botting becomes 10x harder.

Ganrokh · 3 時間前

My guild lost our raid leader, one of our top DPS, and our two top healers to the ban wave. While we will recover, most of the guild has taken a "darn Blizzard for banning our players!" approach when it should really be "darn our players for botting and breaking the ToS!". It's a bit sad.

ITellSadTruth · 3 時間前

No sympathy, get rekt kids.

ThreshTrash · 2 時間前

So last night I started leveling a Dwarf Shaman and I noticed there were A LOT more new players without heirlooms leveling too. Could be just a coincidence but my guess is that they are people who got banned and now they're leveling a new account.

kleintrpt · 3 時間前

So perhaps some Mythic raiding guilds lost some personnel recently...

Hey there! I just met you. And this is crazy,

But here's my i689 Fury, invite me maybe?

EDIT: See below:

Tomoken#1144

Armory

All I currently have for logs

Was 14/14H SoO AotC (5.4) 10 man, Currently only 10/10H BRF (Terrible guild luck; always an issue with not having enough people)

EDIT 2: Link to a more conclusive /r/wowguilds posting

aphoenix · 3 時間前

You can now say "honorbuddy" without having your comment automatically removed from the subreddit. Just still don't link to their site please; we don't want to send traffic to them from here.

kalfis049 · 3 時間前

I used to bot, but eventually got caught. If you bot overnight and all day everyday, you will be getting caught.

But when WoD came out, there was no need to bot in BGs. You could get fully PVP geared in under an hour in Ashran(until blizz nerfed it).

The professional botters will just keep botting no matter what. They expect and prepare for bans. They know what they're doing.

The casual botters are the ones hurt the most by this.

sbowesuk · 2 時間前

ITT: "I only used my bot for fishing. Honest!"

beefkin · 3 時間前

http://www.kaesler.eu/verkauf-von-virtuellen-gegenstaenden-in-diablo-iii-blizzard-entertainment-nimmt-antrag-auf-einstweilige-verfuegung-zurueck/?lang=en

So blizzard lost a lawsuit to the owners of honorbuddy. My guess is that they have had the ability to detect it all along but chose to strike out now as a means to spit in the face of bossland (no one will be buying their bots)

Eorkern · 3 時間前

Any "known" streamer got banned ?

Walktimus · 2 時間前

I've been botting since the Pirox days, botted well into every expansion including WoD. Everything from week long leveling bouts with no logouts, to 12 hours on/12 hours off herb+mining on 4+ accounts to supplement income for months while I was in between jobs. I've done the battlegrounds thing to gear out multiple characters in honor gear. Maxed professions on newly made characters in under a day. You name it, I've probably botted it.

It's hilarious to see people crying about being banned. I get the idea, blizzard has always been pretty lax about it. You get banned once, and a quick email to a GM with a bogus story gets you unbanned 75-80% of the time. Sure the second permaban is indisputable, but at that point you have at least a month to RMT gold for a new account.

Good to see them stepping up with some lengthy bans, but this won't stop the real botters. This stops the raiders using rotation bots and people farming BGs on their mains. The real botters have enough invested and have the experience (30 minute breaks at random 1-3hr intervals) to get right back on the horse and keep fucking your economy.

Good to see some bans, but this isn't the way to stop big time botters from continuing to plague WoW like they have for the past 10 years.

Feel free to ask any questions if you have 'em, but I'm guessing most will hate to see a self-proclaimed botter laughing at all the bans. I wasn't banned by the way. America.

EDIT: Wanted to provide a little insight into how seriously Blizzard takes botting. This is a screenshot of my account management page showing 2 accounts banned for botting, on the same account as 2 unbanned accounts. If you really wanted to stop bots, why wouldn't you ban the whole account? Because that's 2 more ticking subscription fees. They know I bot, but my money is worth more than the integrity of their game. http://i.imgur.com/8kImoqs.png

Solidux · 3 時間前

Is there any reason why blizzard just wont disable the use of the 32 bit version of wow? This is where 99.1875% of injection based bots dwell in.

Is there a sizable playerbase with 8+ year old computers?

Sethisto · 1 時間前

FINALLY.

Every time I brought it up here I'd get hell for it too.

This is the greatest news I've heard in forever. Nothing was more aggravating than seeing bot trains in BGS and bot trains mining/herbing everything. Good on you blizzard!

Empty_Allocution · 1 時間前

I just battlegrounded.

THERE WERE NO BOTS. I BATTLEGROUNDED!!! :")

Axa2000 · 1 時間前

In honour of the ban wave I just reactivated my account.

Seriously the shit here about two sides to this ban wave and how you're butthurt your buddies are banned and you can't raid farm is a complete joke.. the fact that they were caught cheating isn't more of a shock? the bots have damaged this games enjoyment A LOT and there's so many cheaters thinking it's normal to bot that they think this is odd is the worrying factor.

gkane19 · 3 時間前

My guild master (as well as 5 others in my raid team) was banned mid raid due to using a fishing bot and the guild has now, pretty much, fallen apart. That's what really stings here for me. My 6/10 mythic progression has been halted because of fucking fishing!!

Banditjack · 3 時間前

There is no shades of grey to this. You bot, you deserve to get banned. Don't want to get banned, don't cheat.

Cheating a tiny bit (once a month or whatever) is still cheating. You and the bot daily guy deserve the same punishment.

Johnersss · 3 時間前

If anybody here is actually man enough to admit that they used a bot at any point in the history of WoW, why did you do it?

always_a_plan_B · 2 時間前

One thing I've noticed is that the top three auction house players (in terms of volume) on my server seem to have disappeared. Whenever posting raw mats there were three names I recognized consistently; 2 appear to be gone completely for the first time this year and the third only has auctions expiring in the next few hours.

always_a_plan_B · 2 時間前

Would be interesting to see how the bans interact with Game Time Tokens. If someone redeemed 6 months of tokens are they gone? If someone redeemed a years worth of tokens are they half gone or all gone? Or if they had tokens to buy or sell but not posted/added will they just sit in their bags for 6 months?

Swineflew1 · 2 時間前

I'm thinking since wow tokens are a thing, we may see Blizzard be a bit more active in the botwars.

Ancalagon4554 · 2 時間前

I don't bot, but the number of people botting fishing suggests to me that they should make that mechanic more engaging. I know there are people out there who enjoy fishing, but for most people I know it's a mindless, tedious chore.

Margull · 34 分前

If anyone is honestly upset about this, they should blame the freaking people botting in the first place.

Good fucking job Blizzard, my only complaints are that you should have done this sooner, and that there are still bots left even after this enormous spring cleaning. Get the freaking bots out of your game, and make people actually be legit afraid of botting again!

Morgaith · 3 時間前

What the fuck is the point of having a bot do all the work for your account huh? Isn't fun in these types of games is the grinding and gearing up?

0ILERS · 2 時間前

I haven't tried to log in for a week or so, is it weird that I'm worried that I got banned? I don't play often, and honest to god, I do not bot. Only use "normal" addons like Gladius, Battleground Targets, Recount, etc. But it just seems to be exactly my luck to get banned for nothing. I should be fine though.

Lebasto · 3 時間前

Does anyone know the numbers here, i mean how big of a ban wave was this?

photonerection · 2 時間前

Been playing 3s with some people helping them get duelist this season. Good dudes, have fun together. I was away two days, came back and they were surprised I wasn't bottling bc of my interrupt success rate. Interesting addition now in safe duelist range. Went up 150 rating. Healer said he was only kicked a few times in maybe 30 games we played last night. Made me really wonder how many people were using it. Games felt easier. Possibly due to ladder changes. Not sure

collegit · 1 時間前

I'm a bit late to this thread, but I'll post anyways. I was a big time botter back a few years ago from when I was in 11th grade HS to sophomore year of university. I botted at my peak 8 accounts at once farming. I got caught doing something unrelated to botting. It was my fault for being sloppy and I wasn't really upset about losing my accounts, but more the easy income. Across my botting and selling gold I earned ~$5k in profit. All from my gaming ASUS laptop, 8 accounts, and 8 honorbuddy keys. I had them doing various things. One of the accounts was my main account that I had since BC, loved the account but I knew the risks.

Botting was some of the most fun I EVER had in WoW. I set it up in the mornings before school, then in the afternoons paused them and reaped the rewards from 8 hours of "hard" work in just a few of my own.

Once I started turning a profit WoW stopped being a fun game that I paid to enjoy but a business. I was ok with this. I stopped raiding entirely. I did some 2's with my friend but that was about it. Partly because I didn't have time to do much. Especially once I was in uni, last thing i ever wanted to do was actually play wow. It was the best of both worlds. easy money, some fun when i wanted it, and i felt like i was the shit when I was getting money orders for $300-$400 at a time.

Hell sometimes I think of starting my operation right back up. It was so intricate, like 8 guilds each with >500 people grinding for the cash deposit perk. a schedule for when each bot would run, for how long, when to break. all automated by a program that managed the bots themselves. all i had to do was press "go" and they all started up, ran the profiles, all in harmony. it was great.

Last second edit: I see the hate for botters and all. I get it. it takes away from your experience. When I was in my prime I could tell instantly whether someone was a bot or not. It didn't bother me as I botted too. Even when I didn't bot i don't think it bothered me. I get it though

glubbi · 2 時間前

What really grinds my gears is that in all the previous ban waves (that I've been banned in as well as tons of my friends), everyone recieved permanent bans. Just because You, Blizzard, lost 3mil customers the past few months doesn't justify my previous actions NOR THE ACTIONS OF THE RECENTLY BANNED PLAYERS. Why am I punished for eternity whereas these guys only were punished for 6 months?

I've been without my level 67 nelf hunter since mid BC due to botting, that's 7 years ago. I've also been banned since mid MoP on my second account. I don't justify my actions the tinies bit. I botted because I wanted to enjoy high end PvP, and nothing else. Grinding honor and conquest points is NOT what I wantED (notice wanted) to do, I only wanted to do arenas. I took the risk, I got banned, and that's that. I'm fine with it.

What I am ABSOLUTELY not fine with is the fact that you have special treatment when your subscriber base has gone to shit. Why was I punished permanently, twice, while these potentially 100000 others only lost their accounts for 6 months?

I'm fine with adding another 6 month bans on my old accounts, as long as I get my druid back. I'm also fine with you changing everyone elses bans to be permanent. But as it is looking right now, I'm just pissed at the way you treat your customers.

TL;DR - I got permanently banned twice before, and I am pissed at the way they gave the "newly" banned people only 6 months. Waited 7 years to get my hunter back.

src88 · 2 時間前

Pvp already feels better with the bot and script losers gone. I only wish that this was a permanent ban.

Rankerqt · 2 時間前

So i recently leveled a new monk to 100 and have been doing a metric shit ton of random bgs. the one thing ive notcied is that que times haave went up by about 3 min from what they were before. has anyone else experienced this? i play on alliance sargeras US btw.

tg_wl · 2 時間前

Question, can't people that got banned buy another license and add that to their battle.net account and thus they can keep their mounts?

b-neva · 1 時間前

To anyone that botted........why? I'd love to see someone explain why they used them knowing the risk of being banned. Was it worth it?

edit: Are there any Raiders out there who used the rotation bot want to respond?

dotPanic · 1 時間前

Whats even to bot in WoD? Reputation? Honor, for gear you should get while doing what you get gear for.. PvP?

highlow33 · 1 時間前

Only person we lost was someone that got a job somewhere else (construction) and in a company supplied condo for the past 3 months. His ban was for exploiting alternate account. He doesn't play much and didn't really care. Ironically yesterday he was going to raid w. us for the first time in 3 months (work slowing down to < 60 hours/wk) but got banned. He's been playing D3 recently which is why he doesn't give a fuck.

KingRaptorSlothDude · 1 時間前

Anyone using Auto Hotkey getting bans?

ConebreadIH · 1 時間前

WAIT BGS ARE BGS AGAIN INSTEAD OF RUN FESTS?

Sphinctuss · 1 時間前

They had a simular bot ban wave in January 2014. My main was banned then.

Nothing new. They know who is botting.

SiFixD · 59 分前

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/today-5132015-world-warcraft-population-demands-unbanning-their-toon-and-change-terms-so-we-can-play

Not sure if trolling or not but found this in an EU discussion over @battlenet.

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