A sad story to this mass banning (paralyzed botter)

[thebleh]

I posted this in the main mass bans thread but felt I should post it here.

There was a sad story to this as well. I recall meeting another botter in game, on mumble chat, who was paralyzed from the neck down. Wow was pretty much all he had and the only way he could play was to bot and use click to move, typing to talking and some head gestures controlled a few buttons. Poor guy lost a big part of an attempt to scavenge a life and some enjoyment by playing a video game where he was unable to do so before. He was a good tank and it was truly amazing watching him play and overcome his disability by use of technology to get some enjoyment. He was almost always online during waking hours and wow seemed to be a social life he was able to put together.

 

[dudegetrekt]

he can make a new account, how do you know he got banned?

 

[thebleh]

he can make a new account, how do you know he got banned?

Didn't they ban everybody who botted daily, no matter if they were just using CR or full blown automation?

 

[dudegetrekt]

Didn't they ban everybody who botted daily, no matter if they were just using CR or full blown automation?

no, not 100% of the botting population got banned, 6 out of my 22 accounts are still okay.

 

[Maddhatter]

Didn't they ban everybody who botted daily, no matter if they were just using CR or full blown automation?

They didn't ban everyone, they just banned a lot of people. Yes, they banned people that only used CRs. They seemed to have banned anyone that ran HB regardless of the bot or profile that you were running even if it didn't automate movement.

 

[kuskner]

they banned my trial account which I created to test the MS/ping. It got banned, i ran some CR and 1-2 hours of leveling/questing. BOOM ban! total 2-4h use of HB 1 day