It really saddens me to see how short sighted the vocal part of this community really is.
Let me clear some things up.
- Blizz does not like people messing with arena, it never has, it has made that clear with multiple cease and desists and ban-waves.
- There is no one reason why HB was targetted. HB is just the highest profile bot out there, and the wow player-base was starting to complain.
- By enforcing their no arena policy hb team hopes to decrease their profile and impact on the game's legit players.
- Blizz whipped up a detection method and just blanket banned everyone using HB that ticked off the system.
- What botters were doing with HB has nothing to do with them being banned, its a detection ban, if you used HB while the detection was up, you got screwed, if you didn't, you got lucky.
My one question however is:
Who reviewed cr's like gladiator suite and allowed them to the store? These cr's are clearly and obviously intended for arena play (it says so in the description).
If you knew this was the biggest friction point you should have stood behind your own rules and denied these to begin with. You state these CR's used "loopholes". But how are they "loopholes" if you are actively reviewing their source code and allowing it to continue?
Other than that i feel like this banwave has been handled fine by the team. And I hope you can figure out how your were detected in the first place as this is clearly essential information for moving forward with this project.