Are people still running bots after the bans?

[Pureownage2]

Just wondering what everyone was doing. Dunno if I want to invest in the cdkeys again I more than broke even but doesn't mean I have that money currently! Haha

 

[alecsabkan]

nop because the ideolegy of buying game again and again is retarded once we already provide tones of euro or dolars via ah with items and gold..

 

[Bertrand]

if i get hit now, i really dont see myself buying new cd keys, i mean it probably takes more than a month to return the investment, considering i find cd keys for 32-35 euros, and even then nobody guarantees we wont get hit within a matter of weeks...

 

[ezpwnd]

yes, still running.

 

[Abowit]

I wonder if its Australian Privacy laws, but I came back to wow recently and I bot up to 20 hours a day everyday for the last 2 weeks. Still no ban.
I use the most dangerous bots (BGbuddy, gatherbuddy) as well as tyreal.

I have even been previously suspended for exploiting the economy.

At the moment its on a single account as I really dont have any care if I get banned.

For anyone playing detective below are some details that may be interesting.

Details:
I have 4 lifetime honorbuddy licences and have botted with up to 4 accounts for a long time.
I have collected somewhere around 1.4mil collectively.
I raid 3 nights a week in a guild group.
When I lfr I am an asshole for fun, perhaps the 50 reports of abuse are getting in the way of my botting reports
Each account has atleast one character I play on myself either, raiding, pvp ect.
I have sold around 200k, just for fun.
All accounts on same battle net.


I call it my all or nothing method.

The typical raider and human asshole-ness make me look human, but also will hurt me if I do lose the account.

Honestly though, my whole response to getting perma banned would be... meh

 

[quadrotony]

i avoid this wave

 

[Stree]

When was the ban wave? I have been botting for 5 days and haven't been banned as of yet.
Is there a plugin that will allow me to set the bot to only run for X amount of time then log off/stop?

 

[AngelsHalo]

"banwave"? there were like 2-3 reports from last night thats it LOL. maybe more coming this week but its not really a "Banwave" yet...

 

[kork09]

I'm done with it out of my own will (can't say i was actually botting in the last period either but was doing it intermittently ) .
Profits are not there and it started to make me sick even to sort out items - just have a few items left to sell and hopefully in a few days it's all done.

 

[AngelsHalo]

Yeah with emeralds now below $1 in the US it is the tipping point for me.... just not worth my time anymore to sit in the morning and sort out my bot inventory, transfer items etc. And this is with super strict loot rules where I only end up with 3-10 items per bot after 48H. Might just have the bots only pick up mempos and send me a text when it ID's a crit one lol

 

[AngelsHalo]

Looks like reports trickling in... reminds me of the sporadic reports through November and December, until the Armageddon 12/18 banwave. Lost a lot of good soldiers that day, their contributions will not be forgotten. We have been hit before and we got back up ever stronger and we will continue to do so. Never give up my botting brothers.

 

[ElPaintero]

Looks like reports trickling in... reminds me of the sporadic reports through November and December, until the Armageddon 12/18 banwave. Lost a lot of good soldiers that day, their contributions will not be forgotten. We have been hit before and we got back up ever stronger and we will continue to do so. Never give up my botting brothers.

Ban? Wat r ban? Billion+ gold picked up

 

[JoshYoJoshYo]

Looks like reports trickling in... reminds me of the sporadic reports through November and December, until the Armageddon 12/18 banwave. Lost a lot of good soldiers that day, their contributions will not be forgotten. We have been hit before and we got back up ever stronger and we will continue to do so. Never give up my botting brothers.

^ Needs to get laid.