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Blizzard Takes Down Bossland's Honorbuddy, Program Discontinued - World of Warcraft News
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Blizzard Takes Down Bossland's Honorbuddy, Program Discontinued - World of Warcraft News
HonorBuddy, a controversial bot program in World of Warcraft, is being discontinued effective today. The program has been the fulcrum of legal tussles between Blizzard and Bossland, the organization behind the program. Blizzard has been aggressively pursuing legal action against Bossland as well as seeking out and banning users of the bot. In addition to Honorbuddy, Lazymon, Buddywing and Hearthbuddy will also stop being sold.
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I'm glad to see this finally going away.
I know, clearly an exaggeration, but updates to Diablo 3 are so rare and small in scope that one can't help but think of it as their red-headed stepchild. Even HotS sees far more developer support.
I'll tell you why, you bot on Diablo you're not taking money off Blizzard if you bot in WoW you can buy subscription with in game gold.
edit: you are the one keep saying all devs care is money so there you have it.
Perhaps bots don't have as great an impact in a MinMO like D3.
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"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Also I don't know why cheat developers are so stupid if you know you're going to get sued anyways the best thing they could do is just make the cheat open sourced and just give the source code freely to everyone and once its out there there is no stopping it because people are free to develop, (Not that I want to see cheaters.) because a lot of programs do violate the Terms OF Service of WOW or other services, but I have seen some cases where certain programs do not even interact with Blizzard and Blizzards wins because they are a big rich company.
For example its totally possible to take a basic macro keyboard, and totally write a basic script that totally automates game-play farms monsters etc in many online games, and just remain there in-case a GM contacts you, but Blizzard doesn't ban NAGA keyboards, Logitech etc why common software that can automate game-play isn't banned from all games hmmm?
Not that users should automate game-play or anything like that because its not worth thhe risk anyways and it is cheating.
Well they didn't want to put it as free source because they were selling the botting programs...
And about the naga keyboard and all.. Money... Big companies pay other big companies to make more money... And in the end its all about money,not really gameplay.
I'd even say, blizzard sell their own botting program under other name, probably want to take down the competition.
As people already stated, botting leads to more in game passes being sold...
Many games themselves sell in game gold, else i can't explain how on the first week of a new mmorpg some gold sellers sell millions of gold.... When no one even reached max level... And then ofc, they don't ban them, nothing easier then banning gold sellers... They are using global shout for gods sake....
Yeah, i don't have any proof, just my own common sense.
Basically clicking away text windows ruins every MMO, try to have fun instead of rushing things. Without story and lore all there is left is a bunch of mechanics.
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"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
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I hate cheaters, I report them in every game I see them in especially FPS games when I get players shooting through walls and instant headshots everytime you respawn cheating is awful.
But at the same time I do keep an open mind about why cheat companies are so stupid, and IMO its because of the fact that every cheat website cant disclose here but lets just say honor buddy for example only exists to make profit, if they really wanted to release the ultimate hacks then cheat developers would also make their cheats open source to everyone, but the whole purpose behind it seems to make as much money as possible (Put consumers accounts at risk because cheating is bad.) and then user gets banned and the only one making profit in the end is the cheat company.
I also wouldn't personally trust using any type of cheating program, because you could honestly trust Blizzard more as a company not to include illegal software while installing a malicious 5mb cheat may contain a keylogger or password stealer or something you wouldn't want just another downside to using such things.
But at the same time I don't trust rich companies like Blizzard when they claim that in order to cheat world of warcraft every game developer they have sued they said uses parts of their game to perform a cheating action or cheat actions in game aka Copyright infringment, sure they can sue for damages, or other things based off cheats that specifically target world of warcraft, or are advertised to cheat WOW specifically for example.
But what about Logitech Keyboards, Game Controllers, Mice, even mini macro programs that can be used to cheat in games for example they aren't defined as cheats, but can be used to automate game - play, I am not sure why logitech isn't being target after all I use a logitech keyboard many people do can only assume that they monitor people using such every so often.
Botting.. much like moonshining... Is pretty much a non issue if you only use what you produce your self. If you write your own macro (or if you have the chops, software) and only use it your self. Not even Blizzard is going to care beyond having a GM tap you ever so often to see that you are at your keyboard.
It is only when you make a enterprise out of your botting that it becomes a issue. Not only impacting a large amount of people but potentially causing damage to the brand... And when your brand is worth as much as the Warcraft one... That is not good.
That is when the gloves come off.
This have been a good conversation
Also I hope that Blizzard comes out with a statement regarding the scanning of our PCs... I'm worried that's making my PC vulnerable to hacking and also curious if VPNs are issues. I use VPN from my workplace and it will suck not to be able to log while at work :P
Excerpt from the World of Warcraft Terms & Conditions:
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Additional License Limitations.
The license granted to you in Section 1 is subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 1 and 2 (collectively, the “License Limitations”). Any use of the Service or the Game Client in violation of the License Limitations will be regarded as an infringement of Blizzard’s copyrights in and to the Game. You agree that you will not, under any circumstances:
A. use cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, mods or any other unauthorized third-party software designed to modify the World of Warcraft experience;
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Pretty hard to miss really.
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WTF, if the above is true then Blizzard has some explaining to do.
Blizzard End User License Agreement:
Blizzard does not have anything to explain. They've explained already.