Will I bot again? Heck yes I will.
Blizzard has made it a point to literally change the basics of the game almost each patch they have come out with. When you first started playing, people enjoyed learning how to play a class that they picked. However, Blizzard would change the way that class would be played whenever a new patch or expansion came out making it so that the player had to relearn how to play that class again. If you are one of those that has spent so much time on the game where you have many different classes, then you found yourself behind a huge power curve each time they changed something. It has become REALLY annoying. And that is what got me started with botting in the first place. Mind you that I have never been a decent player due to limitations I have, but with botting my rotations, I do fit in better.
I also believe that Blizzard kind of plays into the botting community. They want you to spend loads of time on your character doing mind numbing tasks in order to get ahead in the game. They do offer you advantages such as buying heirlooms with the gold upgrades or apexis crystal dailies to gain more gear, ect. Look at PvP where players spend numerous hours getting their faces pounded in just so they can buy the better gear and then go beat up on the other players that don't have the gear (and of course do the trash talk of how bad the player without any gear sucks). Or finding an advantage such as the Ruby Sanctum leveling "glitch" where a high level character can take an extremely low level character in to literally power level them in moments. Of course, Blizzard fixed this after about 3 or 4 months of it going main stream. But it is the players learning they can do something to better their player with less time/effort. To me, that is mentally the same as botting. (Of course, as long as it is done in moderation and not excessively which is what gets so much of the attention).
As for my take on the "ban wave" which was merely an actual "suspension wave", I am going to say that Blizzard did not ban everyone for a reason. After losing their recent case with Bossland, they made a conscious choice to try and deter people from Honorbuddy (since we all see that no one else was really targeted and the only one you hear about in the forums and media about this). Anyway, I am thinking that they did some shady tactics in order to try and identify people specifically with Honorbuddy on their system, using it, or whatever. So, I do believe that they knowingly scanned our systems in a way that they themselves said was wrong back when they were in the courts with Glider since they said Glider was utilizing information on your system that was created by the game (meaning Glider was utilizing software that was Blizzards). So, yes, this is why their legal came out with some new changes and why they pushed them out in the last few months. Since Blizzard knows that the backlash from out right banning everyone, they did a hard slap on the wrist and then literally refused any appeals. It did not matter what your excuse was. (Of course, there is all that about Blizzard violating laws and people got their accounts back, which I am not so sure happened myself.)
Anyway, that is my 2 cents. I am sure there will be trolls coming along to pick apart my opinion as these forums have been flooded with them for sometime. Both the ones that came to gloat after the "suspensions" were handed out along with the ones that have been here a while which seem to just like to argue. So have fun.
