05/13/2015 - 6 Month Ban wave

[Lotzadots]

Hit this morning as well after renewing my sub after a week off... 6 month ban haha, was expecting some back lash from the court win from Gmbh

Oh well was a good run

 

[harmes]

You are wrong..

The reason this ban wave is starting a month after tokens is because they realize ... none of the botters are actually paying for a subscription.. you can pay for 2 accounts with just moderate bot use on one account pretty easily..

well, they need people to buy the tokens first, then we buy them, so they are not really loosing any money

 

[blackyouout]

It was a great run been botting for just under five years on the same account and i just got banned, six months fuck it.

 

[Hoochnz]

And 6 month banned also....... damn shit fuck

 

[stinkypeepee]

6 month ban, 5 accounts. mostly using quest buddy

 

[namook]

got banned aswell, havent used anything except from enyo for like 1 year

People keep saying Enyo be more specific, you definitely use something with Enyo right, I know there is a routine involved that works in relation with Enyo, so mention everything not just Enyo so honor buddy team can work out exactly what is the culprit I doubt it is just Enyo lol

 

[mente2007]

You are wrong..

The reason this ban wave is starting a month after tokens is because they realize ... none of the botters are actually paying for a subscription.. you can pay for 2 accounts with just moderate bot use on one account pretty easily..

I actually pay for a sub your wrong. I've been botting is 2012, and this is the first time I ever got hit with 1. Blizz finally woke up bought honorbuddy and disected the program to see how it really works.

 

[Cloud30000]

well, they need people to buy the tokens first, then we buy them, so they are not really loosing any money

Many botters already purchased many months of tokens, so Bliz already got that money. Now, a chunk of those players will make new accounts and buy new tokens to replace the lost ones, which means Bliz sells more tokens. Win/Win for Bliz.

 

[cody1d]

Account Action: 6-Month Suspension

Offense: Exploitation of game mechanics

Yeah buddy they got me too, ah well it will be a nice 6 month break for me the games pretty boring so meh. Atleast Demonbuddy still works!

 

[Brenno]

yep got me to ... very old account botted basically since Glider off and on without getting caught.
I haven't logged into wow for 3 weeks so the detection goes back that far.
Like everyone else 6 month ban.
Just used bot for leveling 2-3 hrs every couple of weeks or so.
knew the risks got away with it for years .. first ban

 

[cody1d]

Oh and a question for anyone that can answer: If I had a recurring subscription on an account that got banned would they still charge me for the time the accounts banned?

 

[pilf6996]

Oh and a question for anyone that can answer: If I had a recurring subscription on an account that got banned would they still charge me for the time the accounts banned?

depends on what you mean by recurring because you should still be able to cancel a monthly recurring sub but if you pay for 3 to 6 recurring sub you probably already got charged and won't be getting a refund

 

[pilf6996]

I have not purchased a sub in a while but was botting some characters up to lvl 20 on veteran account but it has been about a month since i logged in so it goes back for a while. Got 6 month ban

 

[cody1d]

depends on what you mean by recurring because you should still be able to cancel a monthly recurring sub but if you pay for 3 to 6 recurring sub you probably already got charged and won't be getting a refund

I mean in the sense of my CC is on my banned account and its setup to auto pay when the next billing cycle goes through and I can't access the account.

 

[frosticus]

i had 4 accounts today

3 were opened april/22---all banned
2 were farming grim batol---active during the event
1 was a gold mule---not online during the event

1 was opened may/7---not banned
was leveling in outlands and was the recipient of all my botted gold---online during the event.

i suggest that the 'detection method' was deactivated sometime after apr/22 and before i activated my 4th account on may/7

all banned were given the standard 'game exploit' email

my understanding of the emails
---third party=dude, we caught you botting.
---exploiting the economy=dude, we haven't caught you botting, but you are profiting from botting activities.
---exploiting game mechanics=dude, we couldnt catch you, and we cant tie you to botting activities, but we suspect you. ban em all, let CS sort them out.


exploiting game mechanics with a 6m suspension gives them an excuse to punish without having to go into any specifics on how, what, where, when, and why they detected us.

'we dont have to admit we scanned your ram if we dont use that as the evidence against you'

 

[mente2007]

Oh and a question for anyone that can answer: If I had a recurring subscription on an account that got banned would they still charge me for the time the accounts banned?

No I asked during the ticket they remove all payment information from the banned acct.

 

[kevybobo]

i had 4 accounts today

3 were opened april/22---all banned
2 were farming grim batol---active during the event
1 was a gold mule---not online during the event

1 was opened may/7---not banned
was leveling in outlands and was the recipient of all my botted gold---online during the event.

i suggest that the 'detection method' was deactivated sometime after apr/22 and before i activated my 4th account on may/7

A friend asked me to start playing with him again in 2s and 3s after quiting 3-4 weeks into the first pvp season bought 30 days membership on it 5 days ago and it got hit with the 6 month ban only using vitalic cr so doubt it was deactivated.

 

[blackyouout]

Oh and a question for anyone that can answer: If I had a recurring subscription on an account that got banned would they still charge me for the time the accounts banned?

yes they will you need to contact them and get them to cancel the sub, dont listen to hear say on the forums, since you cant get into the key associated game in the account management you need to open a ticket since (theyre like ebay with the phone suppose shit) it doesnt hurt to be safe than sorry.

and to the guy wondering what i was doing when i got banned, i was doing Battlegrounds non stop for about five months

 

[Manioso]

Just got a response.
They detected I was using bots and I cannot appeal anymore to my 6 months ban. Any further appeal will be closed without a response.

Oh well... I shouldn't have used a bot to level that 60 shaman to 90. Still, 6 months is too much...

 

[NHK]

I'm surprised there aren't any usual posts like:

"This is not a banwave, because only few (dozen, hundred) people reported"
"HB is UNDETECTABLE!!1!11&!"
"If it was detectable then the gazillion people would have been banned"
"If you're banned then you are using a *****ed version"
"Use your brain, bot human-like"
"I only use bot 2 hours a week, never been banned in 7 years"

It seems that even the most entrenched fanboys realized the bitter truth about HB "undetectability" now...