Blizzard seems to be clever

[Monomatapa]

Instead of spending millions on court-cases, they hire 2 programmers to write 1 update every week. Since the bot seems to be down at least a week every time, it seems that Blizzard has found the right formula...

 

[Pwn]

It's purely coincidence. They want us to bot and pay for accounts. That's why banwaves only happen every few years. So we feel safe most of the time, then a ban hits, we buy new accounts and the cycle continues. I reckon everything will be back to normal in a few weeks or so.

 

[Demondog70]

It's purely coincidence. They want us to bot and pay for accounts. That's why banwaves only happen every few years. So we feel safe most of the time, then a ban hits, we buy new accounts and the cycle continues. I reckon everything will be back to normal in a few weeks or so.

Yup. I agree. Its better for their bottomline to hit us every once and awhile than eliminate botting since they will loose a few hundred thousand accounts

 

[Aion]

Instead of spending millions on court-cases, they hire 2 programmers to write 1 update every week. Since the bot seems to be down at least a week every time, it seems that Blizzard has found the right formula...

If that was so easy, they would made it a decade ago!
So they instead sponsored their lawyers with millions of $, since there was no better option.
Keep in mind, those "weekly" updates probably require a month or few months of testing, before uploaded to the live servers.

 

[stuartroad]

im no IT guy, but from what i've heard you cant just make a small patch every week, you need to test something has not been broken

 

[copasetic]

Banwaves have been happening roughly every 6 months though.

 

[Demondog70]

Thats not exactly true....prior to this spat the last was like 8 months ago. But before that was only like 3 or 4 months

 

[Aion]

Thats here the "roughly" word take place. There is always variations