I dont understand how you say its not software detection when i bought 4 accounts 5 days before ban, and i botted 6 hours/day with them only doing quests. It was questing profile, pretty much the bot was acting 100% like human and they all got banned.......
Seriously, i would want to go back to botting D3 but for now as i see it is --> Buy new Cd keys , bot for 1-2 months (safe botting) then get banned again due to the problem that was not fixed in the first place cause the team is not aware of it....
Yea, Im really feeling uncomfortable about this development teams new response. There are a number of reasons.
1. Probably the biggest reason - I had setup a friend to borrow an extra demon buddy login I wasn't using. He played his account 100% legitimately since release up until a day before the mass bannings. He used the bot for less than a day, around 8 hours in that one day - and he was the first of my friends to get slammed with account closure. There's no way a pattern was formed and detected, warden would have had to detected either the software itself or an effect the software had on the client (which is my guess).
2. Second biggest reason - on the same day I set him up with that login, I outfitted my never before botted on "main" account with a lot of gear and ran the bot only to see how the gear held up. The gear and the character was being setup for the PVP patch and I had no intention of botting on it or using it manually until then. I botted for less than 3 hours on the account and it was closed. Meanwhile, my roomate who DOES NOT USE DEMONBUDDY and plays Diablo 3 was not banned or even warned. There was no account action whatsoever.
3. I wasn't going to tip my hand but - I used 3 accounts to bot. Never having more than 1 on at a time, never doing the same act for more than 1-2 days, never running for more than 10 hours at a time, and always having 2-3 days a week where the account was entirely not used.
Considering these three points, there is no way outside of software detection I was caught. I simply won't accept any theory that suggests otherwise without proof and explanation.
A disturbing trend I HAVE noticed is that a mass ban waves always comes within 72 hours of a notice posted in the legal section. On December 4th, The buddy team lost the case in Germany. On the 6th, the ban wave came and concluded around the 10th-11th. This trend is true for most of the major bannings. Im not sure what it means, but I do know it's certainly not a coincidence. The only thing I would take from this statement is that it's probably wise to have an "offshore" clean account where you can store your money and items when a legal posting is made.
As for me, I'm likely done with Demonbuddy. There's so much money to be made in D3, but the software seems wildly neglected. Random map pathing is still meh at best and more often than not just simply doesn't work. The project isn't nearly as developer supported as Honorbuddy is. Demonbuddy is basically a husk of a program that accomodates a wide variety of logics, but requires... again *requires* community development to function even out of box. Right now, I can go download Honorbuddy and level a character from 1-90 in dungeons and battlegrounds as-is out of the box. There aren't even basic scripts that come with Demonbuddy. It doesn't feel like a "team" is assigned to this. It feels like one guy coding in his spare time outside of his day job.
If I thought I could get my money back for my 3 sessions, I would. Perhaps I'll try to sell them to someone else trying to get into it.
/rant
