World of Warcraft: Current Year

krismunich

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psa: "agent" could detect honorbuddy, several kick- and rotationbots for quite a while now. 32 and 64 bit clients. The moment you pressed that "inject" button you know you had it coming. We just did not ban your cheating ass immediately, that's all.
 
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TecKnoe

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krismunich_sl said:
psa: "agent" could detect honorbuddy, several kick- and rotationbots for quite a while now. 32 and 64 bit clients. The moment you pressed that "inject" button you know you had it coming. We just did not ban your cheating ass immediately, that's all.
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"we" are you claiming to work for blizztard?
 
Noodleface

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TecKnoe_sl said:
what are you talking about noodle you on the drugs? where am i going after you for fucking with me? i said it like 4 times i like the tittle change, i dont care about negs, i saw that it was tarrant, i never said anything about you fucking with me other than my initial comment thinking it was you, after you said it wasnt and tarrant said it was him, go back and read my responses.

seriously bro, and no i have no idea what the majority of you do for work.

SERZZZZLYYYY pass the drugs

btw blue ruin is a pretty good movie, check it out on netflix.
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Nah dude I hadn't checked the other thread when I posted this. No drugs!
 
krismunich

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TecKnoe_sl said:
"we" are you claiming to work for blizztard?
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Summarizing 10.000 posts in two lines. Some people even pointed out that *eric cartmann voice* "if Blizzard did not make the game so boring, we wouldn't have to bot." among many other hilarious arguments. A guy on Psynaps' Twitch stream claimed "I am busy selling arena carries, I have no time to level chars so I have to bot."

Edit: I wondered why it took so long. Things likehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHeSHT2ZDnUwere ongoing for months and more. The argument that blizzard waited for the token to hit is prolly correct. I am just really amazed how many people used scripts and stuff. And no T-Moprh user was banned; just kick, rotation and automatisation scripts/bots. These honorbuddy guys sold 100-300k licenses minimum...
 
Miele

Miele

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Alavaz_sl said:
Boy you sure paint a nice picture, but that was hardly the reality. Maybe the hours of free time and wiping was true, but a good core of members in top guilds exploited, used showEQ, shared accounts and used macros if not full on botted. My guild wasn't competing for world first, but we were always server first and everyone used showEQ and external macros - nothing to the point of botting, but all skill ups were automated as well as several other mundane things.
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We were all europeans and we stole every worthwhile mob to americans. Much more fun and no need for ShowEQ, just a set of lowbie ranger alts or a couple crazy bards running places to track.
Also I don't know what would you bot in EQ: one button push per 10 seconds didn't sound very intense to me (well, maybe ranger's bow attacks).
 
Abefroman

Abefroman

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krismunich_sl said:
Summarizing 10.000 posts in two lines. Some people even pointed out that *eric cartmann voice* "if Blizzard did not make the game so boring, we wouldn't have to bot." among many other hilarious arguments. A guy on Psynaps' Twitch stream claimed "I am busy selling arena carries, I have no time to level chars so I have to bot."

Edit: I wondered why it took so long. Things likehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHeSHT2ZDnUwere ongoing for months and more. The argument that blizzard waited for the token to hit is prolly correct. I am just really amazed how many people used scripts and stuff. And no T-Moprh user was banned; just kick, rotation and automatisation scripts/bots. These honorbuddy guys sold 100-300k licenses minimum...
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I think the fact Honorbuddy the week before won an appeal in Germany had a lot to do with it. They also didn't get all the bots, just pretty much Honorbuddy and a few others.
 
bixxby

bixxby

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I'd have to imagine part of the ban wave was because they've implemented a way to sell gold themselves.
 
Vulg

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Abefroman_sl said:
I'm sure it was a combination of things. They never have been really serious about bots.
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Part of that combination was probably the degree to which botting had infiltrated raiding. It's traditionally been viewed as a professions / PvP issue.

We were marveling at how many raiding guilds have been affected by this and how many 'top parsing players' were outed.

Thankfully we were unscathed, it always sucks recruiting between tiers.
 
Gorehack

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I used wowglider back right before BC launched. My buddies had been using it for almost an entire year to great success, so I said fuck it because I had a tauren warrior and wanted an orc warrior...what better way to level a warrior up than with wowglider?

Bought it, spent 2 hours setting it up, logged off and went to bed.

The Great Ban Wave of November 2007 hit and I got shit on. (The guy at wowglider DID give me a refund though)

For 6 years I would send an e-mail every November and asked for the account to be unbanned and they would always tell me to go fuck myself.

Year 7 I discovered I was able to convert it to a bnet account, so I did that.

Then I went in and submitted a ticket for a compromised account and it was unlocked within 10 minutes.

I had to wait until all of the old GM's were gone...like some sort of supervillain that broods for eons until the time is right.

Account didn't have anything spectacular on it either. 60 priest, 60 war, 60 rogue in various mixes of mc/bwl/aq40 gear.

I just wanted it for the nostalgia.

EDIT: Never again have I used any sort of bot or script and I never will.
 
Warmuth

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Miele_sl said:
We were all europeans and we stole every worthwhile mob to americans. Much more fun and no need for ShowEQ, just a set of lowbie ranger alts or a couple crazy bards running places to track.
Also I don't know what would you bot in EQ: one button push per 10 seconds didn't sound very intense to me (well, maybe ranger's bow attacks).
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EQ is add/ocd hit a button every gcd now just like everything else.
 
alavaz

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Miele_sl said:
We were all europeans and we stole every worthwhile mob to americans. Much more fun and no need for ShowEQ, just a set of lowbie ranger alts or a couple crazy bards running places to track.
Also I don't know what would you bot in EQ: one button push per 10 seconds didn't sound very intense to me (well, maybe ranger's bow attacks).
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Most people would bot 2+ accounts so that they could AFK level. That was the only reason I really knew for botting in EQ. In my guild we did it the old fashion way with some insomniac 6 boxing our accounts.
 
Abefroman

Abefroman

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Vinyard_sl said:
If you guys want some funnies, you can go to the Honorbuddy forums and read all the people complaining about being banned. One guy even threatens legal action because they did an "illegal search" of his system to find the bot

Ban Section - Ban Reports
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Most of those people have moved onto other bots already that aren't detected. Also I believe the EU has stricter laws on what can and can not be done when scanning a computer. I doubt a lawsuit would actually happen, you never know.
 
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velk

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Miele_sl said:
We were all europeans and we stole every worthwhile mob to americans. Much more fun and no need for ShowEQ, just a set of lowbie ranger alts or a couple crazy bards running places to track.
Also I don't know what would you bot in EQ: one button push per 10 seconds didn't sound very intense to me (well, maybe ranger's bow attacks).
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I made a rogue bot good enough that my character went on raids while I was out. It was kind of amusing programming it, looked for keywords like 'door' and checked for locked doors in the vicinity, followed the raid leader around like a good little sheep, dragged all the corpses back to safe points after wipes etc.

Started off mostly so I could keep backstabbing while chatting with people, not having constant keyboard spam made EQ a lot more social than WoW is - anyone who manages to type a sentence longer than 'hi' is obviously slacking off.
 
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TecKnoe

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velk_sl said:
I made a rogue bot good enough that my character went on raids while I was out. It was kind of amusing programming it, looked for keywords like 'door' and checked for locked doors in the vicinity, followed the raid leader around like a good little sheep, dragged all the corpses back to safe points after wipes etc.

Started off mostly so I could keep backstabbing while chatting with people, not having constant keyboard spam made EQ a lot more social than WoW is - anyone who manages to type a sentence longer than 'hi' is obviously slacking off.
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this isnt the age of EQ everyone and anyone has a microphone so yeah if you're typing during a raid you're doing it wrong and slacking off go die.
 
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