kennyisnotdead
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It has become quite apparent that everyone has a big theory on how they detected a lot of people botting in wow all of a sudden. Forget all court cases and process scanning for a just a min.
What kind of computer you have, process blocker, renamed files, scheduling, watching the bot run around while you eat junk food has far less to do with discovering a bunch of assholes automating their gameplay than what you see on the surface. All of the actions the bot performs which emulates your fat fingers is tracked on their servers. There is this thing called machine learning / data mining / predictive analytics. This area of data analysis can be used to understand just about everything about data which you are creating while being logged into the game. Here is a small example just looking at names: Fun Facts about World of Warcraft Character Names | GameAnalytics Blog Read other posts or take a coursera course on machine learning if you want hands on experience.
Now the type of banwave you just felt is not driven by breaking your privacy because activision legal is not that stupid and this type of ban will need to be reported in Q2-3 revenue if its really impactful on their bottom line. The emails you received initially or in a reply is a customer service standard. This means its prefabricated and planned ahead of time so all communication is consistent and they are ready for their support queue to blow up and can be scaled.
I am not going to speculated on how they caught you or if they detected HB. If the HB Dev could add or create a mode that adds random variance to appear human like (human behavior is chaotic) into HB you would make it a bitch for Blizz to detect you with there current model which is classifying you as a botter. Bot detection is a classification problem. Creating an accurate model would be a massive undertaking and would only work until bots become smarter. Then its back to the drawing board for them. In short, do not be predictable or follow the same path with precise key spam of a gaming god.
What kind of computer you have, process blocker, renamed files, scheduling, watching the bot run around while you eat junk food has far less to do with discovering a bunch of assholes automating their gameplay than what you see on the surface. All of the actions the bot performs which emulates your fat fingers is tracked on their servers. There is this thing called machine learning / data mining / predictive analytics. This area of data analysis can be used to understand just about everything about data which you are creating while being logged into the game. Here is a small example just looking at names: Fun Facts about World of Warcraft Character Names | GameAnalytics Blog Read other posts or take a coursera course on machine learning if you want hands on experience.
Now the type of banwave you just felt is not driven by breaking your privacy because activision legal is not that stupid and this type of ban will need to be reported in Q2-3 revenue if its really impactful on their bottom line. The emails you received initially or in a reply is a customer service standard. This means its prefabricated and planned ahead of time so all communication is consistent and they are ready for their support queue to blow up and can be scaled.
I am not going to speculated on how they caught you or if they detected HB. If the HB Dev could add or create a mode that adds random variance to appear human like (human behavior is chaotic) into HB you would make it a bitch for Blizz to detect you with there current model which is classifying you as a botter. Bot detection is a classification problem. Creating an accurate model would be a massive undertaking and would only work until bots become smarter. Then its back to the drawing board for them. In short, do not be predictable or follow the same path with precise key spam of a gaming god.
Funny!
