The Waiting Game...

[gunsandunicorns]

Blizzard will never shut down all bots, because it's money, as three people have clearly stated in the last 10 minutes. They ban people, because you've been reported from other users and caught, they can't let you get away simple reasons, yet, you return with a new account and they allow it.

Exactly. Blizzard bans botters who are either VERY obvious and overdoing or who are being reported. The main reason for Blizzard to ban people here and there is to show their non-botting customers that they care, that they do something about it. Because there's a lot of (mainly EU) players who cry like babies on the Blizz Forums, the EU Forums are full of those threads, big tears, much QQ, blah blah. Hence the significantly more bans on EU servers than on US or other servers. If people wouldn't complain that much about botters, Blizzard would care even less. This is a strategy, some sort of customer psychology to calm crybabies down and show them that they are doing something (and, as mentioned above, the rest of the bans are people who are just too stupid, botting way too obvious).

Blizzard would never in a million years give up on all the money they get from botters. They sure know it's a lot.

 

[Jordans]

Exactly. Blizzard bans botters who are either VERY obvious and overdoing or who are being reported. The main reason for Blizzard to ban people here and there is to show their non-botting customers that they care, that they do something about it. Because there's a lot of (mainly EU) players who cry like babies on the Blizz Forums, the EU Forums are full of those threads, big tears, much QQ, blah blah. Hence the significantly more bans on EU servers than on US or other servers. If people wouldn't complain that much about botters, Blizzard would care even less. This is a strategy, some sort of customer psychology to calm the crybabies down and show them that they are doing something (and, as mentioned above, the rest of the bans are people who are just too stupid, botting way too obvious).

Blizzard would never in a million years give up on all the money they get from botters. They sure know it's a lot.

Exactly like Retail, you have a regular customer who might not be happy about something so you throw them a little discount or freebie, keeps them happy, and they return a willing customer and purchase more goods, keeps making me a lot of money every week/month.

 

[RaiProdigy]

Exactly, Rift, is a prime example, there is always limitations to a bot coding, and Blizzard and making millions, I'm sure if they wanted, they could have a coder, create something just for them, which could never be walked around, but think of the reality behind that, stops most of the community playing because you find it boring, you find it hard, and can't even dps a single raid, things what have been around for years...

There is no code that cant be walked around. Sure there are some that might take awhile to get around but there isnt a code that will just make it so people cant get around it.

and whats up with all these people showing up with there tinfoil hats here damn. lol. The crazies show up when the bots down.

 

[Jordans]

There is no code that cant be walked around. Sure there are some that might take awhile to get around but there isnt a code that will just make it so people cant get around it.

and whats up with all these people showing up with there tinfoil hats here damn. lol. The crazies show up when the bots down.

It's not a statement, was just saying if they wanted to they could stop it.
Because they can't play the game without the bot, and don't read into anything, just assume they're always going to be banned everywhere they turn...

 

[Kowpye]

getting a tinfoil hat for my popcorn - just to make doubly sure we are safe

 

[ryftobuddy]

So what's more tinfoil hat'ish? Saying that Blizz can ban every botter at the same time (not really tin foil hat'ish at all), or saying that there is 260 Blizzard employees on this site at once?

You're right about the coding, but if Blizz wanted to, they could ban every botter and cripple the botting community for weeks on end. There's nothing to say that the HB team, or any other team would take the time to resolve the banning issue either. The HB team gave up in the past, who's to say they wouldn't again?

 

[blablub]

Or its you that underestimate engineers.
You think there is no one blizzard hired, to download this bot and scavenge it for data and information?

And the reason they dont ban all botters, is because they need legit reasons and hard proof, no company that makes product just cut off people from it without a reason.
and with its 8 million or so subs, its hard to keep track on every single one..since Warden is not the best feat of engineering.

there are also restrictions of what is allowed in eu / us and i doubt that the clients behave differently so it has to meet all legits in all regions (maybe china is different other corp models and so on).