Blizzard banned 0.5 million accounts

[yvoms]

Blizzard banned 1.5 million playeraccounts for Lua exploits,
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Feel free to share your opinion on this topic.

"Blizzard Drops Ban Hammer on Popular World of Warcraft Bot
HonorBuddy users hit with a six-month ban."

"Blizzard has issued temporary bans to a large number of World of Warcraft players for using bots.

In a post on the official World of Warcraft forums, community manager Josh Allen (AKA "Lore") confirmed the company had "recently taken action against a large number of accounts that were found to be using third-party programs that automate gameplay.""

"One of the popular bots that has been cracked down on is HonorBuddy, which runs around collecting honour in PvP without actually engaging anyone. This requires no input from the player.
HonorBuddy claims to have over 200,000 registered users. On its forum, multiple users have said they received an e-mail from Blizzard specifying the ban will last six months.
"We’re committed to providing an equal and fair playing field for everyone in World of Warcraft," said Blizzard.
"[We] will continue to take action against those found in violation of our Terms of Use. Cheating of any form will not be tolerated."
Bashiok, another World of Warcraft community manager, further clarified on Twitter that any program that automates the playing of WoW is considered to be breaking Blizzard's terms of use."

"Blizzard previously won a lawsuit against a World of Warcraft bot company for $7 million.
Outside of World of Warcraft, Blizzard is gearing up to launch a new MOBA called Heroes of the Storm, which is pitched as a competitive online game in the same vein as League of Legends or DotA 2, but said to be more approachable.
It is also working on a team-based shooter called Overwatch, which it has described as a "pick-up-and-play" FPS. Find out more about the game in GameSpot's in-depth report on Overwatch's characters and gameplay."

Sources :

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-drops-ban-hammer-on-popular-world-of-warc/1100-6427318/
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17347095985

 

[Hyperion]

lol, that's what happens when you do shit you're not supposed to

 

[Jpp]

That click bait.

 

[Tommy]

Not like it is going to stop people from botting, will just demoralize them for a bit. Pretty sure the bot company they sued are laughing because they only sued them for $7 million. That's honestly not much, especially if the bot company does recurring payments and have hundreds of thousands of users and milked it for years (given that they don't do refunds).

At least the Battlegrounds nowadays won't have too many bots because last year was just horrible. Alterac Valley is the only BG that popped up and it had nothing but honor farming bots in it. :/

 

[yvoms]

there have been banned 2.4 million people as of the numbers indicate right now Rofl.
they wrote a script seems like the script wasn't functional yet.

 

[kolakocide]

That's their fault in the end. If you're going to do it, don't do it so long that you think you've flagged yourself.

 

[yvoms]

People that didn't do anything actually have been banned too.
Where i have gotten banned for exploiting a lua script.
I suspect it was the auto guild invitation script i wrote.
Seems like they flagged all the scripts that worked client to client wise.

At least the Battlegrounds nowadays won't have too many bots because last year was just horrible. Alterac Valley is the only BG that popped up and it had nothing but honor farming bots in it. :/

Omg those days, i skipped pvp entirely due to this occurring.

 

[Jpp]

there have been banned 2.4 million people as of the numbers indicate right now Rofl.
they wrote a script seems like the script wasn't functional yet.

Blizzard did not ban 2.4 million people in the recent ban wave.

 

[Tommy]

According to PC Gamer on the 13th it was more than 100,000 accounts. So yeah, doubt it was even that high.

 

[kolakocide]

Still, a lot of accounts were banned. It's funny that they got banned.