Banwawe inc?

[Peka73Rus]

So we need Bossland post about this. HB is safe now?

 

[Szajlent]

and again
havent been using anything, just HB/GB2

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[lynar]

Right now the only bot people really use is HB. There really isnt an alternative.

I've done some BG farming, both manually and botting and the amounts of botters is insane.
Add to that the fact that they're really easy to spot, I think we have a problem.

I think it's fair to assume that Blizzard has bought HB and is monitoring which profiles and plugins are popular.
This means that Blizz knows which patterns for example most popular profile for gathering is, making it only a matter of
(for example) monitoring servers to find which players are behaving in a certain way.

The servers seem flooded with bots atm (my guesstimate is that 60-70% of my wow friends bot), which is forcing Blizz to take action.
Thats ok, but I really feel like it's too easy for Blizz to spot the botters.

Oh and the thread about the guy getting banned by association scared the living shit out of me.
If (when) my botting account gets banned, I see no reason whatsoever why Blizz wouldnt also ban my main account by association.
And Im guessing im not the only one who feels like that.

Thanks for reading.

More money to blizzard.

 

[DaSoul]

So we need Bossland post about this. HB is safe now?

It is safe. Such stupid thread names cause panic and people running arround asking if they'll get banned and whether hb is unsafe.

If hb would (this means it is NOT) be detected we would se a shitstorm of ban threads. For the current situation we have less than 20 threads what is like 0,000000......1% of the hb bot users, that is just nothing.

If the devs feel unsafe about hb they'll shut down the auth servers and you'll not be able to bot until they feel safe again.

 

[NEwboy]

trust me its not a dam ban wave, if they could detect HB, they would leave it for 2-3 weeks, log every single account that uses it, then slap it on all at one time! people need to:

KEEP
CALM
and
CARRY
ON
BOTTING.....

 

[Peka73Rus]

Ok, it's safe, but what is going on right now with this bans?

 

[sakusa]

wow guys....

it is like always, they collect a bunch of accounts beeing reported and/or captured by their automatic detection and ban them all at once. this is NOT a banwave it is still individual banning BUT all at once on a later date and not every account for its own right after the detection...

and the argument of botters are paying XX millions a year for subscriptions.... really guys?!
i mean 90% of the botters do use RAF-gametime aka credticard abuse and so do not give a single cent to blizzard but a lot of work to delete that gametime if it gets out of hand...

edit:

oh an d i totaly forgt the other argument... 60+ $ for a new account buying classic + cata + mop....
hello SoR + some gold or $ for mop.

 

[Draxmo]

Its a scare tactic by blizzard, they catch alot of bots in a period of time and ban them all at the same time. This has nothing to do with a banwave

 

[wesker1213]

I totally agree to this. Banwaves occured in wow, yes. How many subscribers did they have at that time? We were over the 10 millions, we are not anymore. Now they NEED us to keep their numbers high. They want our money and they want to have as many users as possible. As said by others, I doubt a bot who do not affect wow economy is going to be banned. I doubt they have "anti-botting" unity that is fighting us. I think they wait for people to complain and then, they investigate.

Banwaves for HB, I doubt it. Many of us are modifying the bot to look how we feel it should. To use path we would use. HB implemented a lot of things to make our bots look more human and as lotrodude said, many players would not know how to identify if someone is botting even under their very eyes.

Bans, yes, can appeal, yes, banwaves, no.

The reason we fell below 10 wasn't because of a banwave, it was because Cata was shit and people were leaving in droves. And we are back over 10 million now fyi.

 

[wesker1213]

Blizzard wont ban you, or do any mass ban wave.

Can they afford to lose 80% of their subscribers?

NO because then they will have to get real jobs

I seriously doubt 80% of the subs are botters .. I'd say 25% at best

 

[wesker1213]

My noob friend, there is no ban wave incoming. you would be amazed on how many people actually report you. you must have a lot of friends also.. also most of those reports are your fellow botters themselves

What ever happened to snitches get stitches .... there's some greedy sonsabitches on these boards, lol.

 

[Peka73Rus]

I seriously doubt 80% of the subs are botters .. I'd say 25% at best

But 80% use bot minimum 1 time in life. Minimum.

 

[Hacked1111]

My noob friend, there is no ban wave incoming. you would be amazed on how many people actually report you. you must have a lot of friends also.. also most of those reports are your fellow botters themselves

I bet you cant see the irony of you calling me a noob, when you dont know that % has nothing to do with numbers in absolute terms.
FYI, I just insulted you.

 

[lotrodude]

If Romney wins the US Presidential race, then you will all be banned! ...well maybe not... but that makes about as much sense as some of the other banwave conspiracy theories around here. We all bot and some of us get banned. That's the way it has always been. I will believe there was a banwave when Blizzard says they performed a banwave. Until then, it all seems random. I have 10 botting accounts. I botted last night and will be botting again tonight. No bans here. Not a single one so far for me with HB. It could happen at any time if I am rude to someone or if I simply get in their way and they want to report me, but I do my best to play nice, I talk to other players randomly, I help others when I meet them on the trail, and it seems to be working.

 

[proxedqt]

BG Botting, Nuff said...

 

[lotrodude]

4-5 hrs

No offense, but I could not help but laugh when I read this. What real life person is going to stand in the same place and fish for one solid hour, much less 4-5 hours? You probably got reported at least a dozen times.

 

[ThunderBot360]

My noob friend, there is no ban wave incoming. you would be amazed on how many people actually report you. you must have a lot of friends also.. also most of those reports are your fellow botters themselves

This is especially true of GB! I cannot tell u how many times Ive been pst'd by another HB user threating to report me because I took their node. They knew it was HB because they were doing the same thing, on the same path, just upset I was a druid and could herb faster and without dismount. This is only made worse with x-realm. No botter should report another botter! That's just stupid! You are only asking for a ban yourself!

 

[mz0flick]

No offense, but I could not help but laugh when I read this. What real life person is going to stand in the same place and fish for one solid hour, much less 4-5 hours? You probably got reported at least a dozen times.

Actually, before I got my first bot I fished for well over 6hrs on a well not regular, but "regular" basis maybe?. Might add I was a hardcore raider which gathered mats for the guild, and I didn't really have anything else to do. The fishing part for so long; Most boring part of my wow career. NEVER. EVER. happening again.

This is especially true of GB! I cannot tell u how many times Ive been pst'd by another HB user threating to report me because I took their node. They knew it was HB because they were doing the same thing, on the same path, just upset I was a druid and could herb faster and without dismount. This is only made worse with x-realm. No botter should report another botter! That's just stupid! You are only asking for a ban yourself!

Karma. Lets hope it bites them in the arse, eh?

 

[wubwub]

No offense, but I could not help but laugh when I read this. What real life person is going to stand in the same place and fish for one solid hour, much less 4-5 hours? You probably got reported at least a dozen times.

No offense, but I could not help but laugh when I read this. What real life person is going to stand in the same place WATCHING someone fish for one solid hour, much less 4-5 hours? They probably got bored and left at least a dozen times.

 

[chtpm]

Every time I get banned I buy 2 more accounts. Blizzard does profit from banning me.