Article: Honorbuddy ceased with sales in Germany

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[Leishenn]

omg dont belive

[Yet]

learn to use cracked honorbuddy

[chris32882]

learn to use cracked honorbuddy

even the cracked version isn't full proof, legal system usually catches up

[nazgul111]

tbh, even tho i am a bot user myself i would be quite happy if honorbuddy ceased to exist alltogether since then there would at least be a point to making gold and the hope lingers somewhere in my mind that it would maybe, just maybe improve the overall WoW community

even the cracked version isn't full proof, legal system usually catches up

nope, not really, there is no legal means to stop cracked software as it usually doesnt actually belong to any1, look at games that are cracked by reloaded, skidrow etc, believe me if publishers had any legal means to stop it they would do so long ago.

[bu_ba_911]

I never used botting for monetary gain in the game.... I just botted so I could get those alts I never wanted to level to 90.

But on that note... The forums are still up for me >.> On the post on the Buddy Forum, the specifically stated that it only affects the Germans... everyone outside should still be able to use HB while this is going on.

Once Blizzard pays that sum to the court, Honorbuddy sales ONLY in Germany will be stopped. We already prepare to appeal the courts decision.

[Proceed]

Yeah that only affects the Germans, tried to buy a new license and i get an error message, also they published a version for the German market one hour ago, which basically cant autoquest and gather ore/herbs anymore, but pvp and stuff is still included ...

[Viano]

This affects only idiots. You can still access HB via Proxy and use the normal version.

[wowsc4p3]

So basically... In Germany, you can stop someone from SELLING a product, and force its users to stop USING it by paying the COURT 650k?
How corrupt.

[Bossland]

So basically... In Germany, you can stop someone from SELLING a product, and force its users to stop USING it by paying the COURT 650k?
How corrupt.

No, there was a judgement 3 months ago, that would allow them to stop the sales by paying a guarantee in that sum to the court.
Honorbuddy German Version - press release

[wowsc4p3]

No, there was a judgement 3 months ago, that would allow them to stop the sales by paying a guarantee in that sum to the court.
Honorbuddy German Version - press release

Are Blizzy taking action in any other countries? Or is it just something about the Germany laws which means they actually stood a chance? Because it would suck if they took action in the UK.
Either way, they'd bankrupt themselves paying that fee to every country. Over half a million euros, Damn, You should be honored (... pardon the pun)

[bu_ba_911]

Are Blizzy taking action in any other countries? Or is it just something about the Germany laws which means they actually stood a chance? Because it would suck if they took action in the UK.
Either way, they'd bankrupt themselves paying that fee to every country. Over half a million euros, Damn, You should be honored (... pardon the pun)

that fee is more like a security.... if blizzard wins, they get all their money back.... if they lose, Bossland gets all that money to compensate their losses while they couldn't do business (according the the buddy forums)

and i believe bossland is stationed in germany

[Cromi38]

Are Blizzy taking action in any other countries? Or is it just something about the Germany laws which means they actually stood a chance? Because it would suck if they took action in the UK.
Either way, they'd bankrupt themselves paying that fee to every country. Over half a million euros, Damn, You should be honored (... pardon the pun)

Are you kidding me? If that was true they would have already paid half a million euros a long time ago. Half a million euros is nothing to a billion dollar company... Blizzard would pay 20x that if not much more to stop botting. IF it was guarenteed. By the way I don't bot but I might start soon lol. Also would it be possible to bot from outside of Germany in the Germany servers with honor buddy if this does get shut down? Thanks

[Bawl]

I think its Blizzards problem with the botters. Simply i used it for the tons of dailies and the stupid framing or sum nasty acms.

[LiquidAtoR]

If blizzard would really decide to crack-down on the botters, they can close 1/3 of the realms.
Half of them are dead already, and with the 'connected realms' feature coming they hope to close that gap (and at the same time have more people actively reporting botters so all they have to do is follow up on those reports, not actively search themselves).

Either way the deposit is a security in case Blizz looses the case like bu_ba said.
HonorBuddy is German based.