Another HB Ban Wave

[BuloZB]

I dont know when I only have luck as fock but my botting accounts is still not banned atm

[xio8up]

Cause Apoc handed over the hb source code to blizzard.

[Sklug]

https://wowgoldprices.com/

Not yet, seems as though there are plenty of reserves.

And the continuing trend of players dropping out from playing the game decreases demand as well, so prices still go down.

[xio8up]

i had to lol at this $ 10.75 per 10,000g

[Jaladhjin]

Cause Apoc handed over the hb source code to blizzard.

Have a source for this ?

Because the code that's been handed over thus far is for Stormbuddy not Honorbuddy..

[Subcore]

Would like to know what is blizz gonna do when they loose all their players and earn less than they can play employees

[Blubblab]

@culino2 Yep true, when you put it like that my vulnerability comment was nonsensical, but I suppose I wondered if there could be one specific thing they missed like in the Glider example shown at Defcon, if it's still lurking in the client then it is now a prerequisite to find/fix before you can move forward. The engine vs anti cheat is an interesting distinction and something that can easily be overlooked by those not in the field, I guess searching for a needle in a haystack doesn't even begin to explain the difficulty.

Went also through my mind there are several ways to detect a bot automatically but since not all bots are banned it is possible they just used some the old ways by a GM looking for them/ player reported them but your are right it is really like looking for a needle in the haystack which would under normal circumstances too much work for an bot developer. The best idea I ever had was when just reactOS would just being finished then I would write my own OS level function where I can read/write memory and use the keyboard and mouse as user and compile my own version of it.

But at the moment it is a cat and mouse game between the developers on both sides.

[freeloading]

What I don't understand is why Rebot get perma ban and HB gets 6 months? I've been using both Rebot and HB and recently lost all my accounts. I just made 2 new accounts RaF to test a week ago. So I stopped using Rebot and use HB exclusively on one and the other no botting at all. Just manual play. HB bot got 6 months (first time ever I got temp instead of perma ban). Manual play account still good.

[Rumblefish]

Because HB has a lot more users than ReBot and Blizzard doesn't want to lose them permanently.

[frayman]

I don't understand why Blizzard has been so aggressive on bots lately when their subscription numbers are dropping so low. I guess they want the game bot-free for the expected influx of players from the warcraft movie.

Its simply to make $$ on us that bot. we all go out immediately and buy new accounts with real cash.

Blizzard is in a win win situation here with not perma banning , but instead 6 month to 18 month bans to keep up interested, that way we dont just go eff it and leave but at the same time we go out and buy a new account and start over. You watch, they will hit us again in 6 -7 months rinse and repeat..

[frayman]

Would like to know what is blizz gonna do when they loose all their players and earn less than they can play employees

They have been building up other games for this very reason..sure they arent like the Giant wow was but its a solid company strategy

[Blubblab]

Would like to know what is blizz gonna do when they loose all their players and earn less than they can play employees

Hard to say WoW is a slowly sinking ship but that has less to do with the bots or banns then with the fact the game is just old. They could make just WoW 2 but then everyone would quit the current game after it is released. I think they will milk it so long they can , the other option is make it full f2p with an IS but that was already blocked by the player base when blizzard tried it earlier but I'm sure they will try again GW 2 and ESO did it too.

My best guess would be they making wow f2p when the player base drop under a certain number of players 1-2 years later they start develop a new MMORPG.