Interesting question

[McWeiss]

Hi there,

does not anyone wonder why HB botters got mostly only a 6 month ban and all the other bots in the last banwave 2 days ago were all perma banned? Does that mean blizz is 100% sure at the "other" bots, but was not with hb? how come they made that difference?

I am just wondering...

 

[gippy]

Probably the size of the playerbase using it, perma banning all the hb users would be a massive hit with todays dwindling sub numbers. People are more than likely going to buy a side account to play on until their suspension is up.

I'd say also hbs banwave served as a warning, so they'll have went hard on other people who decided to just bot anyway after such a big ban. That and all the complaints they got for not perma banning all of hb.

 

[Drowsic]

Hopefully they keep with the "no further actions will be taken on this account" thing and not decide to turn around and perma ban all the 6 month suspensions.

I mean, they really kept their foot down with Flying in Draenor... OH WAIT.

 

[tex1966]

After that BAN WARE, left to use the BOT to see if we are still detectable. Well, by the amount of permanent BAN and other temporary, I think that emphasizes well that Blizzard is in detecting.
That's my opinion at the time.
I'll wait a little longer to test the BOT in my new account.

 

[virtual]

I don't think they anticipated the amount of players they would actually ban in the banwave and seeing the numbers made them use this banwave as a warning.
Now that warning is over i imagine.